Posted on 03/26/2019 4:01:32 PM PDT by tcrlaf
he Green New Deal, a sweeping Democratic proposal for dealing with climate change, fell at the first hurdle Tuesday as the Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to begin debate on the non-binding resolution, with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting "present."
No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the filibuster. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona joined 53 Republicans in voting "no." Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, also voted "no."
The vote had been teed up by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in a bid to make Democratic senators -- including several 2020 presidential candidates -- go on the record about the measure. McConnell had called the proposal "a radical, top-down, socialist makeover of the entire U.S. economy."
The Green New Deal calls for the U.S. to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal and replace them with renewable sources such as wind and solar power. It calls for virtual elimination by 2030 of greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming. Republicans have railed against the proposal, saying it would devastate the economy and trigger massive tax increases.
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NONE OF THEM want to go home and say theu voted for it, killing jobs, or against it,killing their careers.
How very courageous of them.
How very 0bama of them.
Yes. But now they are to blame for the destruction of the planet and the extinction of the human race. It’s lucky for them that no one will be around to demand reparations.
EFFING COWARDS!
All scumbags!
If they had 80 seats all of them would have voted for it and then it would be the beginning of the end
The local rag / newspaper ran a story Last week about
How the green new deal has “widespread support “
Among dimocrats and all the dim pres candidates
Yeah
Support all right, right up to the point where they
Had to vote for it
Hahaha, other than not voting for it, they are Solid!
Present is the cowards Yes
Don’t they know that we’ve only got twelve years to live - startinggggg now?
appears AOC’s Democrat colleagues threw a political ‘train’ on her today. It may hurt for a while Sandy.
Bill Nye wept.
He did not know why.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar who pledged her support for the Green New Deal and combating global warming during a snowstorm, looks even more ridiculous. Perhaps she should ask Minnesotans, who recently experienced the brunt of the polar vortex with -30 degree temperatures, how they feel about depending on solar panels and windmills for their heat. During the recent brutal cold residents were being advised to turn their thermostats to no higher than 59 degrees because electricity and natural gas supplies could not keep up with the demand. The Green New Deal could assure significant numbers of Minnesotans would die from the cold each winter.
AOC and the Tribe of Subservient Men.
Present....Ahhhh....that’s what Obama told them to do. He did it all the time.
It’s about 11.7 years now.
>>, with 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voting “present.”
Commie rat bastards
Stalinists lie. Always.
They didn’t vote no. They will wait until you are sleep to drive the knife in.
Markey always looks like he’s been embalmed.
Save his family money when he finally departs.
my oh my what a wonderful day.....
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