GOP senator threatened to hold up bill over provision to honor late political rival: report
Source: The Hill
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 03/23/18 12:41 AM EDT
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A GOP senator attempted to hold up Congress’s massive spending bill over a provision that would have renamed a wilderness preserve after a former political rival, CNN reported Friday.
Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson (R) had included a measure in the spending bill that would rename the state’s White Clouds Wilderness to the "Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness" preserve, after the state’s former Democratic governor and Carter administration Interior secretary. Andrus died last year.
However, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) approached GOP Senate leadership about the provision on Thursday as the Senate was preparing to vote on the bill, according to CNN. Sources told CNN that Risch was threatening to oppose any vote on the bill.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) held a late meeting with Risch as GOP leaders pushed to hold a vote on the $1.3 trillion spending bill late Thursday.
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Looks like they "cleared it up" by removing the provision, but it would have been hilarious to see them try and explain how the Dems managed to shut down the government again. God they are such little brats! Maybe the problem is they are all teething at the same time. 
