Republican US Senate Minority Leader McConnell called this….
A symbolic vote against President Biden’s vaccine mandate and then?
A US Senate vote to NOT mess up American government and others holiday….
And?
This IS how things work in the American Congress….
Democrats have more have lifting to do for Biden’s Social spending package and the Defense Spending Bill…
The new agreement, which now awaits Biden’s signature, covers federal spending until February 18. At that point, lawmakers must adopt another short-term measure or complete work on a dozen long-stalled appropriations bills that fund the government for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year, which ends in September….
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In the end, though, Senate leaders brokered an agreement that eased the logjam, allowing Republicans to take a vote on an amendment that would have defunded vaccine mandates applying to businesses as well as those targeting military service-members and federal employees. That effort ultimately failed on an 48-50 vote, with two Republicans absent. The Senate then adopted the final stopgap bill on a 69-28 vote. The House approved the bill earlier in the evening largely along party lines….