In a surprise vote, the Senate approved the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds most of the government through next September. But perhaps equally important was that the Democrats in the Senate rammed through sevearl dozen Obama administration nominees for the courts and the agencies that Republicans had successfully blocked for months. The Democrats were given the opportunity when Senator Ted Cruz blew up a plan on Friday to adjourn the Senate for the weekend, giving Majority Leader Harry Reid the opening to bring the nominations to the floor. After the Democrats cleaned up on nominations, they proceeded to hand Cruz a crushing defeat on his constitutional point of order regarding the president's immigration executive orders. The Hill: A vast majority of the Senate disagreed with Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) assertion that President Obama’s executive order on immigration is unconstitutional. Cruz raised a constitutional point of order against the...(Read Full Post)