Posted on 03/14/2020 4:44:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The House passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday after House Democrats came to an agreement with the Trump administration. The bill extends free testing for the Wuhan Virus to the uninsured. It also increases spending on unemployment benefits, Medicaid and allocates money to provide school lunches to students whose schools remain closed because of the outbreak.
Although the bill passed, these 40 Republicans voted against the bill:
Brian Babin (TX), Jim Banks (IN), Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Ken Buck (CO), Ted Budd (NC), Tim Burchett (TN), Bradley Byrne (AL), Ben Cline (VA), Michael Cloud (TX), Warren Davidson (OH), Scott DesJarlais (TN), Jeff Duncan (SC), Tom Emmer (MN), Russ Fulcher (ID), Mike Gallagher (WI), Louie Gohmert (TX), Lance Gooden (TX), Mark Green (TN), Glen Grothman (WI), Kevin Hern (OK), Jody Hice (GA), Jim Jordan (OH), Steve King (IA), Debbie Lesko (AZ), Billy Long (MO), Barry Loudermilk (GA), Tom McClintock (CA), Alex Mooney (WV)
Ralph Norman (SC), John Rose (TN), Chip Roy (TX), Jim Sensenbrenner (WI), Jason Smith (MO), Bryan Steil (WI), Greg Steube (FL), William Timmons (SC), Michael Waltz (FL), Randy Weber (TX) and Joe Wilson (SC).
Even though the mainstream media and lefties are quick to say Republicans who voted against the bill shouldn't have, GOPers are coming out to explain why.
According to Rep. Chip Roy (TX), House members were given the final version of the bill a half hour before they were supposed to vote on it. They didn't have time to read it, debate it or make any amendments. Things were jammed through.
Here’s ?@chiproytx? explaining to ?@evanasmith? why he was a no on the emergency coronavirus bill
This is all true. I would add: the majority of the text was out the day before. The text that was released late last night had technical changes, for the most part. pic.twitter.com/iei4mO2NqH— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 14, 2020
Those “technical” changes involved billions of dollars... and we barely had a chance to fully read it much less debate/amend before voting. Regardless - there are federal mandates on small business that do NOT apply to businesses over 500 employees... among many problems.— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) March 14, 2020
Rep. Jim Banks raised concerns about a "rushed a second short-sighted emergency bill, passed in the middle of the night and behind closed doors, that does more harm than good."
"While there are some good things in the bill, we don't know the final price tag. Some language will mean major harm for small businesses and our economy," Banks said in a statement. "Moreover, it greases the skids for massive bailout packages for industries forced to implement these costly policies. Our national debt is nearing $23.5 trillion--our children's generation can't afford it."
Although Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) refused to vote, he said the reason was because of the excess, non-coronavirus related things that were thrown into the bill.
"Everyone is for testing. Everyone is for medical infrastructure like ventilators. Where Republicans have challenges is where we got legislative provisions that forever change entitlement programs, Gaetz told Fox News' Martha McCallum. "We should not use the coronavirus as an excuse to go and dramatically expand eligibility in the SNAP program, for example."
The coronavirus bill does not need any poison pills.
We want solutions that are medical infrastructure-focused and testing-focused but that don't re-write entitlements while we're dealing with the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/8u7OopU6rp— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 14, 2020
Earlier in the day, Rep. Andy Biggs (AZ) expressed concern over the bill's language, specifically referencing the harm that small businesses would face.
"We'll see how this shakes out in the last iterations, but it's going to harm some small businesses and it may put small businesses right over the edge because they're going to have to offer paid leave," he explained in a video to his constituents. "The first 14 days is going to be unpaid leave for the sickness and then the emergency unpaid leave, anything over 14 days, that business will have to pay them. And that's for every business that has at least one employee. That's where we are, the last iteration that I saw."
RE: That is how pelosi does things.
Nanzi also sneaked in an abortion funding bill.
40 Congress GOPers Reveal Why They Voted Against the Wuhan Virus Relief Package
Mainly because they are assholes.
My Congress-critter is Jody Hice and he voted against bacon fat bill.
Thank you and you will receive my family’s vote in November.
Bless your heart.
40 Congress GOPers Reveal Why They Voted Against the Wuhan Virus Relief Package
Mainly because they are assholes.
“Progressives” do not know what a profit margin is. God help us!
If Trump has to write some checks during this crisis to get re-elected. I am all for it.
Anyone who votes for a bill written by democrats,that nobody’s had time to read, yeah they sure are assholes.
None of this is permitted by the Constitution. Sadly, that stopped mattering generations ago.
A national crisis emergency bill turned into a pork filled swamp sh*t sandwich!
Scumbag MF rats there just isn’t enough rope
I am kind of amazed that there are 40 sane congressmen left in DC.
And from other threads, it had all the RAT priorities save abortion and none of the GOP wants. Oh, that will come later they say.
Yep,Michael Cloud gets a big “attaboy” to make up for a couple of “aweshits”.
Back door implementing Cloward-Piven society remake?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
If Louie Gomhert did not vote for this piece of crap, that it was a piece of Crap. You sir are the AssHole
Doesnt matter. This should be vetted through the Senate and the President. What do you want to bet that our blessed Repub-LIE-Cons will just push it through without giving a crap whats in it?
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