This is yesterday's news but the reason the Republicans voted it down was because King Harry Reid would not allow any discussion or any amendments to be proposed by the Republicans on the bill. If he had allowed it, he would have had the votes necessary. Susan Collins even told him he had her vote but he had to allow discussion and amendments by the Republicans to be considered. When he refused, she said NO.

Is the Reid model really the way a democracy should work ?

BTW, that is not all that was in the bill and this was all being attached to a bill that provided funding for our troops in Afghanistan. They also had something in there called the Dream Act to give illegal aliens immunity. Why would Reid want that in a defense Spending Bill ? He is trying to get reelected in a heavily Hispanic state is why.

How about just presenting a bill with one item in it, allow debate, consider amendments from all sides and have it pass or fail on its own merits instead of these political shenanigans the Democrat majority is playing ?

41 more days until election day.