Constitution Trashed: Senate Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill: Funds Obamacare and Obama’s Amnesty

 By Matthew Burke

The U.S. Senate passed a 1,600 page, $1.1 trillion spending bill, known as the” CRomnibus,” fully funding both Obama’s illegal amnesty and highly unpopular Obamacare on Saturday night with a 56-40 vote, averting a partial government shutdown, increasing overall government spending, and funding most of the government through September of 2015.




Additionally, also on Saturday evening, Senator Ted Cruz’s constitutional point of order against Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty, which violates the separation of powers and Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, was voted down by 74 senators, with only 22 voting with the Constitution and Senator Cruz.

“If you believe President Obama’s executive order was unconstitutional, vote yes,” Cruz said before the vote was taken. “If you think the president’s executive order is constitutional, vote no,” he urged.

The Department of Homeland Security will only be funded through February of 2015, a move GOP leaders said is somehow a protest against Obama’s illegal amnesty, while simultaneously voting to fund it.

In all, 18 Republican Senators and 21 Democrats voted in bipartisan fashion against  the massive bill. Socialist Bernie Sanders also voted “no.”

Per Roll Call:

Republican “No” Votes: Bob Corker of Tennessee; Michael D. Crapo of Idaho; Ted Cruz of Texas; Jeff Flake of Arizona; Charles E. Grassley of Iowa; Dean Heller of Nevada, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah; John McCain of Arizona; Jerry Moran of Kansas; Rand Paul of Kentucky; Rob Portman of Ohio; Jim Risch of Idaho; Marco Rubio of Florida; Tim Scott of South Carolina; Jeff Sessions of Alabama; Richard C. Shelby of Alabama; and David Vitter of Louisiana.
Democrat “No” Votes: Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut; Cory Booker of New Jersey; Barbara Boxer of California; Sherrod Brown of Ohio; Maria Cantwell of Washington; Al Franken of Minnesota; Kirsten Gillibrand of New York; Tom Harkin of Iowa; Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaii; Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota; Carl Levin of Michigan; Joe Manchin III of West Virginia; Ed Markey of Massachusetts; Claire McCaskill of Missouri; Robert Menendez of New Jersey; Jeff Merkley of Oregon; Jack Reed of Rhode Island; Tester of Montana; Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Ron Wyden of Oregon.