Posted on 12/16/2022 6:23:13 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
Senate Votes Against Measure to Reinstate Troops Kicked Out over COVID Vaccines By Eric Lendrum December 16, 2022
On Thursday, the United States Senate overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have ordered the Department of Defense (DOD) to reinstate military personnel who had been discharged or otherwise separated from their branch due to refusing to take a COVID-19 vaccine.
As reported by the Washington Examiner, the measure was defeated with 54 votes against and just 40 votes in favor. The vote precedes the coming vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill that funds the DOD. Republicans did manage to score a victory in NDAA negotiations by including a measure that officially ends the military’s COVID vaccine mandate, even despite opposition to the proposal by Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
The reinstatement measure was championed by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), and would have seen the return of about 8,400 service members who were ultimately forced out across all six branches. But Democrats in opposition claimed that such service members were rightfully removed for disobeying an order.
“The service members who refuse to do that and who were discharged from service, that’s the way it has to work in the military. Orders are not optional in the United States military,” said Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. “And if Congress expresses the opinion that they are, I cannot imagine anything that would more significantly undermine the good order and discipline within our military.”
According to Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh, 98 percent of all active-duty members had received one of the three major COVID vaccines, either the two-shot Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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MFers. Especially the 4 turncoats.
Hopefully the incoming Repub house can do something about this.
So now they love the military. Still hate the troops
I agree.
I pray for the day that the American political system collapses into oblivion.
“Who voted against the troops in the GOP?”
Votes against... The usual RINOs.
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Romney (R-UT)
Rosen (D-NV)
Rounds (R-SD)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
So,if he military forces troops to take cyanide or some other form of poison, they must take it or get kicked out? Because they forced troops to take a poison, an u tested poison at that!
So i guess What they are saying is that if the military demands that soldiers play the part of Guinnipig, ingesting unknown, untested sibstances, the soldiers must comply? Gee that’s swell- no wonder recruiting is hurting these days.
Did not vote:
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Cruz (R-TX)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Tillis (R-NC)
I think Cruz did not vote since he sponsored the legislation. This way he can bring it up to the floor again?
America is finished.
Amazing how the dems can accomplish so much with a slim majority while McConnell claims that he can’t do anything without 60, even when the house is majority repub.
The truth is, he wants what the left wants. Just ask his wife.
AHHHHH yes....the usual slugs. Romney, Collins..... et al.
SHAME on them. This shot is experimental, NOT a proven vaccine like all others required by military. Proven to cause undue nasty side affects.
... just as many Republicans have abandoned the January 6th trespassers who remain imprisoned in the federal government's DC gulag.
Disgraceful is what this is!
Thank you.
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