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Santa Cruz

by Josh Marshall

12.15.14 | 9:45 am

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) talks with reporters after the Senate voted on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through the next fiscal year on on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP P... Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) talks with reporters after the Senate voted on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the government through the next fiscal year on on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) MORE LESS

It was easy to miss on a cluttered DC weekend. But Ted Cruz pulled a parliamentary maneuver this weekend which inadvertently allowed Senate Democrats to push through two dozen nominations they would have had to gone begging to Republicans for next year.

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Josh Marshall is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TPM.

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