THE HILL
By Michael O’Brien – 12/17/10
Senate Republicans sought to build momentum on Friday after successfully forcing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to beg off a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, wrote a valedictory email to GOP supporters cheering the death of the omnibus bill.
“You did it. Facing pressure from you, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday night he was withdrawing the Democrats’ last-minute, 2,200 page-long, $1.1 trillion spending bill,” Cornyn wrote, crediting Republican victories in Senate races this fall for the victory.
Reid pulled the spending bill from the Senate floor after Republicans signaled that they would not support the legislation, despite some of the earmarked projects contained within the bill that different GOP senators had requested.
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