Senate blocks Lee's vote to defund Planned Parenthood

[mrclose]

So tell me again .. the differences between the D's and R's?

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was rebuked by his Senate colleagues on Sunday as he tried to force a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood.

Lee had tried to attach an amendment eliminating all federal funds for Planned Parenthood to the vote on Congress’s must-pass highway legislation.

The amendment was rejected by the chair of the Senate, who called it out of order because it was not germane to the highway bill.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decided last week that he would only allow two amendments to the bill – a repeal of ObamaCare and a reauthorization of the Export-Import bank – while blocking all others in a procedure known as “filling the tree.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/249236-senate-blocks-lees-vote-to-defund-planned-parenthood

[FlaGator]

So tell me again .. the differences between the D's and R's?

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/249236-senate-blocks-lees-vote-to-defund-planned-parenthood

Since when did an amendment have to be germane to a bill? I have seen all sorts of crud attached to spending bills and generally there is nary a complaint.

[mrclose]

video at link

American people elected a Republican majority believing it would somehow be different from a Democratic one

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After speaking on the Senate floor today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement:

“We’ve just seen something extraordinary on the Senate floor. The American people elected a Republican majority believing that a Republican majority would be somehow different from a Democratic majority in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, the way the current Senate operates, there is one party, the Washington party.

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2406

[libertybele]

Exactly.  There is no difference between the GOPe and the DEMS.  "We the People" are pretty much screwed.  Cruz for 3rd party anyone?