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Sen. Rob Portman voted YES on the budget bill. The Hill reports:
The Senate on
Wednesday gave final passage to a two-year budget plan in a 64-36 vote.
Nine Republican
senators voted with 55 Democrats and Independents to pass the budget deal,
which sets top-line spending levels for 2014 and 2015, allowing appropriators
to get to work on an omnibus spending bill for the current fiscal year.
. .
.
The vote in the
Senate was closer than in the House, where majorities in each party backed the
compromise negotiated by Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and
her House counterpart, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
GOP Sens. Ted Cruz
(Texas), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), seen as possible 2016
presidential candidates, all voted against the deal, as did GOP Leader Mitch
McConnell (Ken.), who faces a tough primary challenge. That contrasted with the
House, where GOP leaders and Ryan, another possible White House hopeful, backed
the deal.
And from the Senate website, here are the Senators
who voted NO on this bad budget "deal":
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kirk (R-IL)
Lee (R-UT)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
In voting YES, Sen. Portman was keeping company
with, among others, Orrin Hatch (UT), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Susan Collins (ME),
and John McCain (AZ). Ugh.
