All but 1 Republican senator facing re-election in 2014 voted against the budget deal (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHTgdnx1dZPXSbnazMxMlUtg5JWd6riaVBMtbNZJkvRy35ExkRtpxtwCpxrmtjQra8c2BI76QOPz5yuwRzLHcwAvfbxIs_u83YMDCYC4a_0oq5DNZjDDGaG0UWAA5GbHCxs52WLTWb-c/s1600/46489da44ae5e8223f0f6a706700f3ea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHTgdnx1dZPXSbnazMxMlUtg5JWd6riaVBMtbNZJkvRy35ExkRtpxtwCpxrmtjQra8c2BI76QOPz5yuwRzLHcwAvfbxIs_u83YMDCYC4a_0oq5DNZjDDGaG0UWAA5GbHCxs52WLTWb-c/s320/46489da44ae5e8223f0f6a706700f3ea.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388631540978_3877" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Eleven of the 12 sitting Republican senators facing re-election next year voted against the bipartisan budget agreement, which<a data-mce-href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-budget-deal-heads-passage-fiscal-fights-loom-205250172.html" data-rapid_p="14" href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-budget-deal-heads-passage-fiscal-fights-loom-205250172.html" id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388631540978_3931" style="color: #324fe1; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">passed Wednesday with 64 votes.</a></div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388631540978_3940" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The “no” votes included:</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388631540978_3949" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee<br />Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina<br />Sen. John Cornyn of Texas<br />Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas<br />Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama<br />Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky<br />Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana<br />Sen. James Risch of Idaho<br />Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina<br />Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma<br />Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The only Republican senator facing re-election in 2014 who supported the agreement was Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate who will likely not face a serious primary challenge next spring.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">The 11 Republican senators who opposed it are, however, confronting the possibility of rigorous primaries from tea-party-backed candidates who argue that these Republican incumbents aren’t conservative enough.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">Before the vote, many outside groups on the right, notably the Club for Growth, Heritage Action and FreedomWorks, panned the budget plan and promised to punish lawmakers who supported it. (The bill, which sets spending levels through fiscal year 2015, would replace much of the budget caps instituted in the Budget Control Act. The move would effectively loosen up much of the spending restrictions under “sequestration,” a policy many conservatives generally liked because it reined in federal spending.)</div><div id="yui_3_9_1_1_1388631540978_3972" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;">As was on display Wednesday, the voting behavior of the challenged incumbents suggests that they just might be taking these circumstances into consideration on the Senate floor.</div></div>

All but 1 Republican senator facing re-election in 2014 voted against the budget deal (BLOG)

Eleven of the 12 sitting Republican senators facing re-election next year voted against the bipartisan budget agreement, which passed Wednes...

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