Posted on 03/23/2020 11:49:32 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
The fate of a third coronavirus response bill -- a massive amalgam of stimulus checks and other economic aid -- has been only further clouded by the fact that five Republican senators remain stuck in quarantine. The package was blocked by Senate Democrats late Sunday, leading to fiery condemnations from GOP colleagues. But the math is made even harder for majority Republicans as more and more of their members are forced to the sidelines, unable to vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has been pushing the legislation in its current form, warned of the new obstacle at hand. AS RAND PAUL TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, CALLS FOR REMOTE VOTING INTENSIFY “Coronavirus has now arrived here in the Senate,” McConnell said Sunday evening from the Senate floor. “There are at least five senators in self-quarantine.” On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tested positive for COVID-19, after having spent much of the weekend on Capitol Hill engaged in working lunches and meetings over the stimulus package. Paul, who became the first member of the Senate known to be infected with coronavirus, has been in quarantine in Kentucky and continuing to work, while staffers in his Washington D.C. office have been working remotely for the past 10 days. But his diagnosis sent several other top GOP senators into self-quarantine. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said that his physician had instructed him to “immediately self-quarantine and not to vote on the Senate floor," after recently having lunch with Paul....
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Why don't these Senators just get that '45 min' test done and see if they really have to quarantine?
I guess only the President is pressured to be "tested" and not these RINOs
Hold on...I’ll drop off an iPad outside their door.
Why in can’t they cast votes by proxy??? This seems like a no brainer. CELL PHONES HAVE CAMERAS. Let them vote.
Mc Connell should call for a resolution for ALL members of the Senate to be “tested” immediately and find out in “45 min” who has really been infected!
Not a good idea. Just have every Senator TESTED NOW!
.@SenJohnKennedy
: “Do you know what the American people are thinking right now? They’re thinking that the brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in a mother’s womb, and it doesn’t stop working until you get elected to Congress.”
TEST first to see if they are infected. If not, no need for any quarantine.
stop with all the common sense-
I say, test them all, and if their name is Romney, kick them out of the Senate.
I’m skeptical that Romney and Rand have any issues with WuFlu.
So true from Senator John Kennedy.
I agree, the rule requiring voting in person is simply a rule, not a constitutional requirement.
C’mon, man! Ever hear of hazmat suits or space suits or the “bubble boy” suit? Properly garbed, they could vote and leave. Get with it, McConnell.
Crap, they let RBG do about everything via remote control. Why not this?
Why indeed ? John McCain voted from AZ when he was out of the picture (probably comatose) . Justice Ginsburg was voting from her bed at home on nationwide cases that she did not attend the hearings on. So why if the Senators are on mandatory lockdown can they not submit their vote? McConnell, are you there McConnell ?
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