so the democrats naugt they might be able to squeeze in a few more nominations. they d go away for the weekend, come back, vote on the spending plan and then a few more nominations. senator mitch mcconnell seen saying bye, i ll see you monday. but, then, senator ted cruz of texas, decided to bull one of his pat ented senate ted cruz of texas stuntds. he pulled the parliament maneuver late friday night. the senators, in fact rgs would not be allowed to leave to go home e home for the weekend. instead, because of ted cruz, they would have to stay in washington. they would have to stay in session on saturday for 10 straight hours of voting and parliamentary procedure because of ted cruz. now, what he held everything up for was a symbolic vote. a symbolic, meaning, a substantively meaningless vote,