“Seriously? You don’t understand that you can’t just vote for one part of a bill. Once you cast your vote, it’s for the whole ball of wax.”
No kidding? Really? Calm down. I know how the voting works.
99.9 percent of the bill was about needed defense spending. The Matthew Shepard Act was added as an amendment, which neither of the Texas Senators voted for.
So, someone like Cornyn is faced with a decision: vote for the bill because he supports 99 percent of it; or vote against the bill because of the Matthew Shepard Act but then for the next year possibly be seen as voting against a defense appropriations bill. It’s not so simple as some here like to say; and blaming one of the more conservative Senators in the US may not be, in my mind, appropriate.
Cornyn is not the problem. The Democrats are the problem.
No he and the other RINO’s should not have voted for this what so ever and let it be known why to the public.
If they had made a noise about this to the public then the public would have known.
you cannot vote for a bill and ignore add ons like this
Bottom line, he voted for it. He is the problem. There was nothing stopping him from outting it loudly for everyone to hear. There was nothing stopping him from presenting his own bill that was 100% defense. I don't see the Republicans who voted against it scrambling to come up with excuses for shooting it down.