Short diary. The Senate just voted unanimously -- yes, unanimously -- to invoke cloture, thereby setting the House's CR for a vote after 30 hours.
But the funny part: The vote was 100 to 0. Ted Cruz voted to invoke cloture! So he talked for 30 hours, supposedly in an effort to prevent the bill from coming to a vote, and then voted to invoke cloture. I guess he couldn't take the heat of casting a procedural vote against the House CR, which defunded the ACA. Wouldn't that be a funny sight? A tea party primary against Cruz, saying he voted against defunding Obamacare. Evidently he couldn't stomach that.