Democrats Defeat GOP Filibuster of State Aid Bill That Reduces Federal Deficit

Roll Call: "Senate Democrats beat back nearly unified GOP opposition to a $26 billion education and Medicaid funding measure, winning a key procedural vote Wednesday with the help of Maine Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe."

The legislation will provide crucial Medicaid and education funds to help balance Missouri's budget (and other state budgets), and actually reduces the federal deficit, but Republicans opposed it en masse because...well, that's what they do.

According to the Huffington Post, "the bill's revenue offsets include $9 billion from removing a foreign tax credit loophole, $8 billion from spending cuts, $2 billion from tweaking Medicaid drug reimbursement formulas, and, controversially, more than $6 billion from cutting food stamp funding in 2014.

Click here for the roll call vote on the cloture motion.   The final vote in the Senate could come tomorrow.