Not a filibuster
We're approaching hour 18 in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's marathon not-a-filibuster against funding for Obamacare, designed to accomplish ... absolutely nothing. Except to perhaps raise his profile for a presidential run in 2016, raise money for him, and, uh, that's about it. Because
later today:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to introduce an amendment at some point which will restore the funding of Obamacare to the [House passed] continuing resolution. A final vote on passage of the stop-gap spending measure is expected to come late Sunday if all the time for debate is used. This leaves the House of Representatives with less than a day to work on the continuing resolution before the Oct. 1 deadline at which point the government would shut down.