U.S. Senate aims to vote Monday on $1.1 trillion spending bill

 U.S. Senate aims to vote Monday on $1.1 trillion spending bill

1 of 10. U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (C) speaks to reporters as he arrives for votes on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 12, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

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(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday struggled to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill that would avert a looming federal government shutdown, postponing a vote until Monday when procedural hurdles begin to evaporate.
Negotiations between Democrats and Republicans to speed the process along collapsed during late-night talks in the nearly abandoned U.S. Capitol.
Barring any agreement to act in a more streamlined way, the Senate is on track to hold a procedural vote at 1 a.m. eastern time Sunday aimed at clearing the way for passage on Monday.

 

 

The breakdown in talks capped a week in which passage of the massive spending bill to fund most of the government through Sept. 30, 2015, advanced in fits and starts.
Some senators, angered over the bill's easing of a "Dodd-Frank" bank regulation law requirement, wanted a shot at removing the provision.
But demands from some conservative Republicans for a separate vote on an amendment to immediately defund President Barack Obama's implementation of a recently announced immigration program further stymied the bill's progress on Friday.