today was so bad it was enough to bring tears to your eyes. if there s one thing you should be able to do as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives it is a thing john boehner failed to do today, which is pass a farm bill. a farm bill is one of the pieces of legislation that s generally passed without controversy at fairly regular intervals. it s usually the definition of routine business in congress. today in a surprise turn the house voted down the farm bill. 62 republicans joined the kras in voting to defeat the bill. most oppose massive cuts to the food stamp program. republicans thought it didn t cut the program enough. but regardless of why the farm bill failed, its failure was a great defeel for john boehner and a victory for anybody who cares about making sure the poor
if there s one thing you should be able to do as speaker of the u.s. house of representatives it is a thing john boehner failed to do today, which is pass a farm bill. a farm bill is one of the pieces of legislation that s generally passed without controversy at fairly regular intervals. it s usually the definition of routine business in congress. today in a surprise turn the house voted down the farm bill. 62 republicans joined the kras in voting to defeat the bill. most oppose massive cuts to the food stamp program. republicans thought it didn t cut the program enough. but regardless of why the farm bill failed, its failure was a great defeel for john boehner and a victory for anybody who cares about making sure the poor have enough to eat.
helicopter, medical evacuation helicopter to the hospital and others have either refused treatment or were transported on the ground to local hospitals. the campus is still on a lockdown. however, it appears that there are people moving around, casually, it is not a does not appear to be a run and hide situation anymore. and anything about any additional suspects or stabbing victims is speculation. this is a sprawling huge campus in the northwest area. unfortunately there was a shooting incident at a different campus at the lone star community college system. how what happened? how did the people get stabbed? we don t know at this point. again, it s a single suspect. we don t know if it s a student or anybody else who had regular routine business on the campus, but with so
been saying for months now, for years now that he was going to fix. tonight the senate passed a filibuster reform compromise that harry reid reached with republican minority leader mitch mcconnell. here s how the great ezra klein at the washington post summed up what they agreed to and what was voted in in the senate tonight. reid and mcconnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. the deal is this the filibuster will not be reformed. what harry reid and mitch mcconnell agreed to today was a package of small changes that will marginally speed up business in the senate and will allow bills to be debated without as many opportunities to obstruct them. it will reduce the number of hours the senate has to wait before confirming judges and some cabinet nominees. but there is no challenge at all here to the minority s ability to force a supermajority vote on routine business as a matter of routine. the problem in the senate, right? has been that they are not able to get anything do
package of small changes that will marginally speed up business in the senate and will allow bills to be debated without as many opportunities to obstruct them. it will reduce the number of hours the senate has to wait before confirming judges and some cabinet nominees. but there is no challenge at all here to the minority s ability to force a supermajority vote on routine business as a matter of routine. the problem in the senate, right? has been that they are not able to get anything done. the improvement on that today is that now they re not going to be able to get anything done faster. nobody was ever talking about taking away the filibuster completely. idea was to make it something that hurt a little, that actually required some commitment, that if you wanted to block something it was going to have to become a priority for you, you were going to have to do it in a way that took up your time, that put you in a position of having to explain why you were doing it, that meant you coul