Posted on 03/11/2022 8:12:53 AM PST by RandFan
The Senate passed a massive bill to fund the government and provide new Ukraine-related aid, sending the 2,741-page bill to President Biden’s desk.
Senators voted 68-31 on the bill, which includes $1.5 trillion in government funding and $13.6 billion in aid tied to Ukraine.
The bill moved at lightning speed through Congress, passing the House less than 24 hours after it was unveiled early Wednesday morning. The Senate’s vote comes less than two days after the bill was introduced.
The Senate also passed by voice vote a days-long continuing resolution to buy time to get the massive legislation, which funds the government through the end of September, to Biden’s desk, after which he’s expected to sign it.
“It’s been a very productive and very bipartisan week in the Senate,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
“This bipartisan funding package is a significant and far reaching win for the American people and I’m glad the Senate moved as quickly today as I hoped we would. To my colleagues on both sides of the aisle I say bravo, a job well done,” Schumer added.
All of the 31 no votes came from Republicans. But top GOP leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), backed the bill.
Senate conservatives fumed over being pushed to quickly vote on a bill that they didn’t physically have time to read.
"There are a lot of people in my conference who are very upset, you can include me in number, that once again we're being asked to vote on legislation that we haven't had a reasonable opportunity to read. There are a lot of people upset, I'm among that number, that we can't seem to get amendments," said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.).
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“I was elected to lead, not to read.”
vote no if you can’t read it. Besides, I don’t see any incentive in the legislation to ramp up domestic energy production, our crisis on our shores deserves some attention.
The important thing is the lobbyists (who wrote the various spending provisions) read the bill before submitting it to Congress for approval.
Tell me something that I don’t know. I don’t think they ever read those damn bills and don’t care either.
Pelosi: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
There will be some weird ass, very specific sh*t in that bill, when it comes out, remember this post.
As long as THEY somehow benefit from it then it’s all good. New phrase of the day——”NO NEED TO READ!”
Voting is a waste of time now and in the future.
This is what you get with voting. First you must erase the board in one swoop.
This merely signals the electorate that they have the ultimate “NO” vote coming to clean out this nest of vipers.
This is just like a teacher and school children. If the teacher can’t read it, it either must be redone legibly or will be graded as an F. No negotiation possible.
They don’t want you to read the bill either. Try to find it. It’s not even called the Omnibus Spending Bill, budget, appropriations, etc. It’s a bill on Haiti with the language striped and replace with this steaming pile of excrement.
NRSC 202 675 6000. They love to hear from the base...lol
The elected folks are puppet actors. Very much like news readers, stage craft, theater and film. They read the lines but at bottom, they have zero ability to control the eventual produciton - other than their acting ability may get them rewarded with a long-term assignment in the theater.
The bills are written by lobbyists or by the WH lawyers. Congress drafts maybe 1% of what it passes. Members are briefed on the contents (peobably misled as much as the public is), and then speech or not and vote in whatever way they figure is in their PERSONAL best interest.
Similar charade with oversight.
You are watching a movie, and you don’t even know who the writer and director are.
On the plus side, we do get to choose who the actors are.
And McConnell goes along with it with about 20 other useful idiots.
Nothing will change until he is gone
They don’t want to know.
Him and every other Deep State controlled pol in both chambers.
They never read the bills.........................
Looks like the democrats are going to be doing a lot of 3am voting before November gets here.
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