“Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) is glad that House Republicans passed the cromnibus spending bill tonight rather than going to their fallback plan.
“It’s not a perfect bill,” Reid said on the Senate floor, per Politico. “But this bill is so much better than a short-term CR.”
Reid has plenty of reasons to be happy. The bill almost failed because of a change to campaign-finance laws that he had inserted into the bill, according to a House Democrat.
“Harry Reid wanted that in because he wants the political parties to take greater control of the electoral process, because if there is a vacuum than individual contributors who have their own agenda — oftentinmes its to deregulate their own industry or to cut their own taxes — they fill up vacuums,” retiring Virginia Representative Jim Moran told reporters after a House Democratic caucus meeting.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University), Wes Clark Jr and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/394509/harry-reid-hails-house-passage-cromnibus-joel-gehrke
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