Senate to take up $1.1T bill to keep govt running

[Dustlawyer]

4. Ditto! I don't even know my Congressman, other than he won the battle of the Primary of who

could out Tea Party the others. Democrats in Texas have no real money to compete with the wash of corporate money the Republicans get here in Texas. The National Democratic Party just phones it in when it comes to Texas, insuring that generations of Texans only hear the RW message. That is how you get a Ted Cruz and Louie Gomert!

They cut the EPA some more. It already was so under budgeted that it cannot monitor all of the oil refineries in the area. It is a green light for these companies to continue to break the laws and grossly exceed the pollution standards. Cutting the EPA budget doesn't change the laws, just enforcement. Congress and Obama are telling them to poison us all they want in violation of the laws while Eric Garner is murdered for allegedly violating a law whose punishment is a ticket!