Cruz, groups criticize $1.4 trillion budget deal `no one has read`
(World News USA)

On the eve of the Senate voting on an omnibus bill already passed by the House, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz lit a cigar and said, `The spending bill the Senate is voting on [Thursday] is lobbyist boondoggle that belongs in an ashtray.` The Senate is scheduled to vote on the $1.4 trillion spending package Thursday. It is 2,313 pages and several feet thick. No one has read it, Cruz says; the Senate received it two days before the vote was scheduled after it was put together by Republican leadership...