While it's still not clear what time it's going to happen, apparently
it is going to happen sometime tonight:
After days of procedural wrangling, the Senate has reached an agreement to wrap up final passage of a $1.1 trillion spending package Saturday night.
The upper chamber had been stuck in limbo Saturday after Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah forced a delay on the spending bill unless the Senate voted on a measure defunding the president's recent executive action on immigration. [...]
But under the deal struck late Saturday night, Cruz will get a vote on a "constitutional point of order" regarding the immigration action, followed by a vote on final passage of the larger spending measure to fund most of the government through September 2015.
The Cruz tantrum needs 51 votes to pass, so suck it, Ted.
On a brighter note:
While Republican senators were fuming at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for holding up a $1.1 trillion spending bill aimed at preventing a government shutdown, Democrats saw a silver lining: the move by Cruz and Lee gave Democrats an opening to move a number of President Barack Obama's nominees for federal judgeships and the executive branch. [...]
The extra time over the weekend gave Reid the opportunity to, through the Senate's executive session, file cloture on the nominations and move them sooner than they would have under the deal Reid and McConnell had planned on and that Cruz and Lee blocked.
6:50 PM PT: And Cruz's chunk of red meat to his rabid base went down in flames, 22-74. (This would be Ted's "vote on a constitutional point of order regarding President Obama's immigration action.")
7:11 PM PT: And the bill passes, 56-40.