Turning their back on the House RightWingNuts….
The US House has overwhelmingly voted to approve the Senate Defense Spending bill….
The Congress HAS sewed up the Spending bill as a mostly clean bill without the amendments that where unacceptable to Democrats and the President….
When pushed?
The Congress CAN come together excluding the fringe Republican members….
The sprawling bill — numbering 3,000-plus pages — is a product of months of negotiations between leaders from both political parties who worked to bypass most of the demands made by hard-line House Republicans. It authorizes expanded military partnerships in the Indo-Pacific and Europe — ongoing efforts aimed at countering China and Russia, respectively — and structural improvements at several Defense Department facilities. The legislation includes a 5.2 percent pay raise for military personnel. It also directs the procurement of new weapons and missile-defense systems and outlines a host of other national security imperatives….
13 Nays (6 D, 1 ind., 6 R)
Nay
Nay NJ D Booker, Cory *
Nay MA D Markey, Ed
Nay OR D Merkley, Jeff
Nay MA D Warren, Elizabeth *
Nay VT D Welch, Peter
Nay OR D Wyden, Ron
Nay VT I Sanders, Bernie *
Nay IN R Braun, Mike
Nay MO R Hawley, Josh
Nay UT R Lee, Mike
Nay WY R Lummis, Cynthia
Nay KY R Paul, Rand
Nay OH R Vance, J.D. (James)