Balanced budget vote fell short. Rick Santorum · The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship." — PolitiFact National on Friday, ...
In 2013, Toomey was one of 18 Senators who voted against the bill to reopen the government during the United States government shutdown of 2013. Regarding the vote, he said: "The one major redeeming aspect of this bill is that it reopens the government ... But I cannot support piling hundreds of billions of dollars of debt ...
Feb 2, 1997 ... Many Republican Senators say they will not be content merely to join with the Democrats to pass the balanced-budget amendment, which failed in the last Senate by one vote. They hope its passage will embolden Republicans to push through other initiatives like tax cuts. Republicans also expect to bring ...
Quietly, Senate Republicans have already chosen Mitch McConnell as their next leader — because Congress just isn't partisan enough. ... He stood, grinning, on the Senate floor for a long time, his hands clasped placidly in front of him as if at church, as colleagues came up to chat—one gave him a congratulatory pat on ...
Sep 27, 2015 ... Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. ... rank-and-file GOP voters, a conservative rump group in the House GOP caucus forced Mr. Boehner's sudden announcement on Friday that he will resign his post and ...
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."