UNGA Thursday highlights from the UN blog link here
The United States has reached a deal with Russia on Syria's chemical weapons, President Obama's ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday.
The U.N. Security Council is scheduled to take up the resolution Thursday evening, Samantha Power tweeted. A vote could come next week. link here
Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday a deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program could come in as little as three months, depending on the country’s willingness to negotiate. link here
WENDY DAVIS WILL RUN link here
Davis, who became a darling of Democratic activists with a lengthy June filibuster of a law to restrict abortion in her state, has been traveling the country fundraising for a possible campaign. Her candidacy has been expected, but she is reportedly set to officially announce her campaign on Oct. 1.
NSA link here
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) suggested on Thursday that the National Security Agency tracked or considered tracking the cellphone location data of millions of people in the United States.
During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Wyden asked NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander whether "the NSA has ever collected — or made any plans to collect — Americans' cell site information in bulk."
As a member of the Intelligence Committee, Wyden has access to classified information about the NSA's surveillance programs.
NSA Wyden link here
NSA Hearing Video link here
TED CRUZ AND OBAMACARE (This was not a filibuster--the order was backwards--- A Filibuster is)
Ted Cruz talks 21 hours (FAUXLIBUSTER) over Obamacare then votes yes on cloture-- Cruz (R-TX), Yea
Definition of Cloture link here
cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.
Continuing Resolution 100-0 voted yes to proceed
| Sep 23 | H.J.RES.59 | Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 motion to proceed | Reid | Sep 25 | 100 - 0 No. 205 | I |
Vote Breakdown 100-0 voted yes link here
| Question: | |||
| Vote Number: | 205 | Vote Date: | September 25, 2013, 12:55 PM |
| Required For Majority: | 3/5 | Vote Result: | Cloture Motion Agreed to |
| Vote Counts: | YEAs | 100 |
| NAYs | 0 |
Cloture Motion link here
We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move to bring to a close debate on H.J. Res. 59, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes.
Harry Reid, Barbara A. Mikulski, Joe Donnelly, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael F. Bennet, Patrick J. Leahy, Heidi Heitkamp, Debbie Stabenow, Charles E. Schumer, Mark R. Warner, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, Tom Harkin, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr.
Harry Reid, Barbara A. Mikulski, Joe Donnelly, Richard J. Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael F. Bennet, Patrick J. Leahy, Heidi Heitkamp, Debbie Stabenow, Charles E. Schumer, Mark R. Warner, Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, Tom Harkin, Christopher A. Coons, Angus S. King, Jr.
CR vote on Friday link here
Procedurally, it will be left to Democrats to provide funding for the implementation with a vote in favor of an amendment offered by Reid and Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., that would strip out defunding provisions and make several other changes, including moving up the end date to Nov. 15.
Cruz and Lee will now get that vote in the middle of the day. As part of the agreement offered by Reid, the entire 30 hours available for debate after the vote for cloture (on the House CR that includes defunding of Obamacare) will be yielded back, setting up a string of four votes.
The ultimate result, after adoption of the amendment, will be passage of a “clean” continuing resolution that maintains funding for the health care overhaul, sending the measure back to the House.
link here
Cruz, Lee and their supporters both inside and outside the Capitol are pushing their fellow Republicans to oppose a debate-limiting cloture motion, in a bid to muster 41 votes to send a signal that Reid shouldn’t be allowed to amend the measure with a post-cloture vote to fund the health care overhaul. The effort has the backing of a number of outside conservative and tea-party-affiliated groups.
It is true that imposing limits on the debate will also allow Reid to get a vote on his germane amendment without needing 60 votes.
That’s created a tactical disagreement among Republicans. Corker’s long been critical of the strategy favored by Cruz and Lee.
Did Cruz accomplish anything? link here
Senate votes 100-0 link here
The Senate voted 100-0 to take up the House-passed continuing resolution Wednesday, while Sen. Ted Cruz indicated a willingness to accelerate the timetable for the more important vote to cut off debate on the bill.
The Texas Republican has long said that the real test will come on the vote to limit debate on the underlying bill, after which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could get the simple majority vote to strike defunding of the health care law.
If all the debate time is used, that would come on Saturday, although Cruz seems to be expressing a new willingness to truncate the debate time. At the end of his marathon floor talk Wednesday, he floated a series of consent agreements that could shorten the dayslong timeline for final Senate approval of a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown next week.
Though it is unclear whether leaders will accept Cruz’s offers, the fact that Cruz moved at all from his original position that the Senate should take up full debate time to Sunday could mark progress toward avoiding a shutdown. Many, including most Senate Republicans, view government shutdown as an unavoidable outcome unless the GOP cedes debate time. On Wednesday morning, Cruz offered to open debate on the House-approved continuing resolution by unanimous consent as long as the majority agreed to hold the vote to cut off debate on Friday, so more people might pay attention to it.
Cornyn Praises Cruz, but Disagrees on Obamacare Tactics link here
“If we can’t defund it, I’m for delaying it, but here’s the challenge: The end of fiscal year is Monday,” Cornyn said. “Because of the Senate rules, it’s unlikely we’re going to finish this until maybe as late as Sunday, and so I don’t know how much time that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor have to put together 218 votes in the House without seeing the government shut down.”
And Cornyn said a shutdown would hurt the GOP.
“As much as I loathe Obamacare, I don’t think a shutdown actually works in our best interests because the press and the mainstream media will inevitably side with Prsident Obama, and I don’t want to do anything to change the focus from President Obama and his failed policies, including Obamacare,” Cornyn said Wednesday morning.
Manchin Backs One-Year Delay of Individual Mandate (to avoid shutdown) link here
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., said Thursday that he would support a one-year delay in implementing the individual mandate, the cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s health care law, as part of larger budget negotiations to avert a government shutdown.
“There’s no way I could not vote for it,” Manchin said at a breakfast sponsored by Bloomberg News. “It’s very reasonable and sensible.”
Senate CR keeps funds for Lautenberg Widow link here
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