No kidding. This is a joke, kind of like all those votes against gay marriage that the GOP put us through . . . before they were for it.
My thoughts also.
A new budget year begins in a couple of months and if our fearless republican majority were serious, they would simply refuse to include funding for this activity in the budget. Instead, they continue the dishonest practice of funding everything with a simple majority vote, then stage these designed to fail votes to take the money back which requires a 60 vote majority to invoke cloture or a 2/3 vote in both houses to overcome a veto. They are not serious and, as a group will do almost anything to keep from offending any special interest.