'Near-empty chamber' appalls onlookers as only 5 senators attend midnight TSA crisis vote

Onlookers were left baffled early Friday after a “near-empty chamber” in the Senate managed to advance a major spending bill that would direct tens of billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

At around 3 a.m. Friday, the Senate adopted a bill to fund most of DHS, excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, bringing lawmakers one step closer to ending the growing airport disruptions caused by the funding lapse. As noted by Punchbowl News reporter Andrew Desiderio...