YouTube New Senator Kirk (R-IL) & Senator McCain

"We just saw something extraordinary on the floor of the United States Senate," Senator John McCain said Thursday night after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, lacking enough votes,  gave up on a trillion-dollar, 1,924-page omnibus spending bill that included $8 billion in pork barrel spending.

The decision by Reid to pull the bill caught several Senators by surprise.  One of the surprised was the new Republican Senator from Illinois, who now occupies the seat once held by Barack Obama.  “Just as the most junior member -- for those of us who do not understand what just happened -- did we just win?” Mark Kirk (R-IL), asked Senator McCain.

YouTube of Senators Kirk and McCain:



A smiling McCain responded: “I think there is very little doubt that the majority leader of the United States Senate would not have taken the action he just took if we did not have 41 votes to stop this monstrosity.”

Kirk followed with: “So for economic conservatives, a 1,924 page bill just died?”

McCain: “A 1,924 page bill just died.”

Kirk: “And 6,000 earmarks will not now move forward?”

McCain (a longtime opponent of pork barrel spending): “Yes, and I feel badly about some of those earmarks because I had so much fun with them.”

Kirk said the defeat of the trillion-dollar-plus legislation – 12 spending bills rolled into one -- is a significant turning point when it comes to fiscal restraint.

“All of the GOP senators just signed a letter to the leadership this morning saying that we should not move forward with this as representatives of the new mandate,” Kirk said. “And it seems change has come to the Senate tonight with the death of this $1.1 trillion plan.”

McCain agreed, “I have no doubt.”

This was a victory for America and the Tea Party.

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