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This week on Senate floor McConnell wants to vote to override Trump's veto of the defense funding bill and then head home for New Year. I'm going to object until we get a vote on legislation to provide a $2,000 direct payment to the working class.
Bernie Sanders ^ | Dec 28 2020 | Sen Bernie Sanders

Posted on 12/28/2020 6:27:52 PM PST by rintintin

Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders This week on the Senate floor Mitch McConnell wants to vote to override Trump's veto of the $740 billion defense funding bill and then head home for the New Year.

I'm going to object until we get a vote on legislation to provide a $2,000 direct payment to the working class.

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1 posted on 12/28/2020 6:27:52 PM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Was it this bill or the Covid bill that they had slipped the line in overruling Trump’s big executive order from 2018?


2 posted on 12/28/2020 6:29:22 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: rintintin

A broken analog clock is right twice a day.


3 posted on 12/28/2020 6:31:47 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Rand MIA on the defense bill? I thought this was his bailiwick? I guess he doesn’t want to cross his fellow Kentuckian?


4 posted on 12/28/2020 6:33:39 PM PST by lodi90
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To: lightman

Yes. Bernie is a socialist, but at least an honest one. And he does appear to have some concern for his constituency.


5 posted on 12/28/2020 6:43:28 PM PST by livius
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To: lightman

nothing broke about it, this is consistent with socialist position, aka ‘free money’


6 posted on 12/28/2020 6:45:22 PM PST by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: livius

Totally unmasked, unlike Kamalama-ding-dong.


7 posted on 12/28/2020 6:45:59 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: rintintin

The Uniparty stole an election from Sanders, too.

Too bad he doesn’t have the cojones to stand up to it.


8 posted on 12/28/2020 6:58:06 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: rintintin
While I rarely if ever agree with you, in fact this is most likely a first, expose the hypocrite McConnell and other Republicans that may vote against the 2,000 Wuhan China virus payment to Americans.

I mean since the debt load this country has allowed to grow uncontrolled, it might as well be the Americans who get some of their money back for a change, instead of the money being sent overseas only to be laundered and then funneled back to the crooks robbing the national treasury.

9 posted on 12/28/2020 7:13:05 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: livius

Well I wouldn’t go as far as saying an honest one. He’s doing this for political reasons, not so much for what he is portraying his actions to be, to help the citizens. But I am with him on this, but for totally different reasons.


10 posted on 12/28/2020 7:16:10 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: rintintin

T post


11 posted on 12/28/2020 7:17:37 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Robert DeLong

He’s honest in that he’s a radical socialist and lets everybody know. People in his district are fine with it. Of course, most of them are wealthy folk with vacation homes all over the universe ...but heck...who isn’t?


12 posted on 12/28/2020 7:27:40 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

An honest socialist multimillionaire with 4 houses, who never had a job. Get real.


13 posted on 12/28/2020 7:32:49 PM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: VAFreedom

Just like the last 2.2 trillion and this 2.3 trillion.

Unless you are still THAT naive to thinking even 30 percent of the money the govt spends goes to where it’s going.

Maybe you like seeing foreign countries and politician’s families and corporations steal trillions from the govt.

But you HATE it when it might go to the people


14 posted on 12/28/2020 7:38:31 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: rintintin

Is McConnell insane? I don’t think so.
So then ...


15 posted on 12/28/2020 7:40:15 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: VAFreedom

Oh please. If GOP Senators think it is Free Money then have a vote
and let them go on record and say so.
No voice vote. A roll call vote.
Bernie is just asking for a vote.
I agree. Have a vote.


16 posted on 12/28/2020 7:57:35 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: angmo

Just because he is honest doesn’t preclude his being stupid.


17 posted on 12/28/2020 8:13:57 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Nothing overruling the E.O. still in force and maybe more so as the week progresses.

The Section 230 liability protection for twitter, big tech- removal was not in the Natl Defense Authorization Act— which is the main reason Trump vetoed it. They took it out.

Nothing in any bill about “overruling” the Sept. 2018 E.0, and the National Emergency declared therein.


18 posted on 12/28/2020 8:26:40 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: rintintin
It's funny that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump, and all Democrat Senators including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Bernie Sanders, are all attacking RINO Mitch McConnell.

ROFL! Make him as miserable as possible.


19 posted on 12/28/2020 8:32:11 PM PST by gw-ington (The Office of the President-Elect gw-ington and Vice President-Elect Loch Ness Monster)
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Mitch doesn’t care. He’s used to being attacked. He has the satisfaction of having defeated Trumps MAGA agenda for the most part, and now he’s looking forward to Trump leaving in just a few weeks. After that it will be back to the pre-Trump business as usual. In fact, as the covid bill showed, they’re already back to business as usual, and basically ignoring Trump


20 posted on 12/28/2020 8:47:51 PM PST by rintintin (Every time a conservative watches Tucker, a Fox News liberal reporter gets a pay raise. )
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