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Post by onelasttime on Aug 2, 2022 23:39:59 GMT
So now it goes to President Biden. Good.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 2, 2022 23:56:13 GMT
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Post by lizacreates on Aug 3, 2022 0:00:30 GMT
Yes. 47-48 fail on Toomey’s amendment. You can tell that was party line voting. There’s no way Rs could meet the 60-vote threshold for the amendment because there’s only 50 of them. That’s why Toomey wanted majority voting to which Schumer said no. It’s 60-vote legislation, therefore, 60-vote amendment. Toomey relented, but he himself must have known right then and there it would just be performative. The Rs would have to vote yes on the bill. They didn’t really have a choice. How else can they recover from the severe and deserved backlash? Toomey doesn’t care about angering the vet voting bloc because he’s retiring; but those other Rs cannot afford the risk. (But I hope vets remember in Nov who stood in the way.) So, in essence, all the drama Toomey created was unnecessary. He & Rs delayed the bill for nothing. They should consider themselves lucky Schumer didn’t wait long for a final vote. Otherwise, they would have had to endure several more days of being raked over the coals. |
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 3, 2022 0:16:56 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 3, 2022 0:20:01 GMT
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Post by dizzycheermom on Aug 3, 2022 19:20:49 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 3, 2022 20:00:22 GMT
heather cox richardson - for anyone not on facebook heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-2-2022Today, the Senate passed the PACT Act in exactly the same form it had last week, when Republicans claimed they could no longer support the bill they had previously passed because Democrats had snuck a “slush fund” into a bill providing medical care for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, the bill was unchanged, and Republicans’ refusal to repass the bill from the House seemed an act of spite after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced an agreement on a bill to lower the cost of certain prescription drugs, invest in measures to combat climate change, raise taxes on corporations and the very wealthy, and reduce the deficit. Since their vote to kill the measure, the outcry around the country, led by veterans and veterans’ advocate Jon Stewart, has been extraordinary. The vote on the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022 tonight was 86 to 11 as Republicans scrambled to fix their mistake. |
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