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LIVE - US Senate Vote-A-Rama still going on? Where is Alaska Senator Sullivan?
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Posted on 03/06/2021 3:20:53 AM PST by FRinCanada2

Question. Why are all the amendments failing 49-50 without forcing the VP to cast the “deciding” vote and force the Administration to OWN the results ?

Why is Alaska Senator Sullivan (Republican?) not voting on any of the amendments that are failing 49/50?


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; fiftyfifry49to50; fiftyfifty; harris; senate; senatelive; spartansixdelta; sullivan
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1 posted on 03/06/2021 3:20:53 AM PST by FRinCanada2
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To: FRinCanada2

Because The Turtle probably has a deal with Chuck Schumer to not require Kamala’s presence


2 posted on 03/06/2021 3:40:59 AM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: FRinCanada2

He flew home for his Father-in-Law’s funeral.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541897-dan-sullivan-returning-to-alaska-during-coronavirus-relief-vote-after-father


3 posted on 03/06/2021 3:41:11 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: FRinCanada2

no way. Not another Sullivan.

to add to Roberts’ satellite-controlling wife,
to the child raping (caught on ZOOM) “judge” Sullivan,
to the AF nuke losing Sullivan,
to the CNN-paid anarchist Sullivan.


4 posted on 03/06/2021 3:42:47 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Valour is superior to numbers" - Vegetius)
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To: FRinCanada2
This is a copy of one of his twats, so I don't know what your question is concerning.

Sen. Dan Sullivan ✔ @SenDanSullivan Today, I voted against proceeding to consideration of congressional Democrats' COVID-19 "relief" package, which funds a wish-list of partisan policies unrelated to the pandemic or economic recovery.

5 posted on 03/06/2021 3:44:38 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Stingray51

Why can’t he just put in a permanent order to vote yes on all amendments that are 49 to 50 that’s forcing the VP to cast a dividing the deciding vote


6 posted on 03/06/2021 3:46:05 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Team MAGA under TRUMP leadership in 2022/2024 + JOIN worldwide fight against Human Traffickers ! )
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To: FRinCanada2

It’s the go-along to get-along show! Talk for show, vote for dough—to line THEIR pockets! Rotten, greedy bastards!


7 posted on 03/06/2021 3:50:39 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: House Atreides

Thank you. As it will require a democratic defection to pass anything, and a defection would pass 50-49, I’d give this a pass.


8 posted on 03/06/2021 4:30:43 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: FRinCanada2

Because the U.S. assumes that members of each house make up their own minds on each vote—which is somewhat more the case and used to be much more the case than in the strongly whipped English tradition.

I know that in Canada the assumption is that one always votes with the leader except in rare occasions, and defecting on anything that is whipped risks getting tossed from Caucus. The U.S. is still very different in that way—and Canada is basically an elected monarchy.

My own MP, Gallant, is what passes for a radical conservative here in terms of willingness to buck party lines (arguably she isn’t really bucking “her” party—she is one of the last MPs elected as Reform, and has been passed along to the Alliance and then the Conservatives)

Long live Preston Manning


9 posted on 03/06/2021 4:37:59 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: Hieronymus

I would much rather see bad legislation pass with 50-51(VP casting deciding vote) force the Administration to OWN it.


10 posted on 03/06/2021 4:38:54 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Team MAGA under TRUMP leadership in 2022/2024 + JOIN worldwide fight against Human Traffickers ! )
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To: FRinCanada2

So would I. That said, I wouldn’t vote against a guy because he opted to go to his father-in-law’s funeral and miss votes that don’t impact what is passed.

I don’t see conspiracy here.


11 posted on 03/06/2021 5:04:28 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: House Atreides

I thought it was traditional for a member of the opposite party to not vote when a member has an emergency like that so the vote would be 49-49? Or do traditions like that only apply when that vote doesn’t matter?


12 posted on 03/06/2021 6:13:36 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Stingray51

Murkowski would probably side with the rats if they needed it.


13 posted on 03/06/2021 6:54:20 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Hieronymus

I don’t buy that as an excuse for not going on the record to vote for or against an amendment to $2 Trillion legislation. As least have the minority leader and majority leader agree to a unanimous consent to cast your YES vote and force the VP to cast HER vote.


14 posted on 03/06/2021 7:09:53 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Team MAGA under TRUMP leadership in 2022/2024 + JOIN worldwide fight against Human Traffickers ! )
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To: FRinCanada2

Much ado about nothing. Would it have made a difference? kamala’s their trump. Use your head.


15 posted on 03/06/2021 7:12:26 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (I like him-he reminds me of the late Joe tex. )
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To: FRinCanada2

The VP, while President of the Senate, is neither minority nor majority leader and only has a vote when the chamber is equally divided.

There isn’t a Canadian equivalent, but the closest one would be our Speaker of the House, who has about three orders of magnitude less clout than the U.S. speaker of the House, whose legislative power is the closest U.S. equivalent to the Prime Minister (legislative power only), albeit close to two orders of magnitude less clout.


16 posted on 03/06/2021 7:59:29 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

HUGE difference !! Yuuuge that is.

Forcing the VP to cast the deciding vote on these Common sense Amendments is critical to the future of the Conservative movement in the United States. It puts the ownership of the results squarely on the Administration and does not allow the current administration to blame the US Senate


17 posted on 03/06/2021 7:59:30 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Team MAGA under TRUMP leadership in 2022/2024 + JOIN worldwide fight against Human Traffickers ! )
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To: Hieronymus

I fully understand. IF the Senator from Alaska had voted on all the Amendments being offered and voted on in the past 24 hours. Presumable He would be voting YES which would make the vote 50/50 thus requiring VP Kamala Harris as the VP to cast the deciding vote and as such would very likely side with her boss and then the administration owns the results of killing those Amendments.


18 posted on 03/06/2021 8:03:01 AM PST by FRinCanada2 (Team MAGA under TRUMP leadership in 2022/2024 + JOIN worldwide fight against Human Traffickers ! )
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To: FRinCanada2

Yes—

but as the vote is strictly party line anyway, it doesn’t matter hugely.

While the U.S. doesn’t have whipped votes, as there really are only two parties (pax King and Sanders), when the vote is strictly party line the party owns it somewhat more than when you have party line votes in Canada.

If Biden wanted any of these to pass, he would have no problem finding a Senator to back him up—given that a solid majority of the Dem Caucus is to the right of the VP.


19 posted on 03/06/2021 8:17:16 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: FRinCanada2

What a farce.

On a ‘secret poll’ you couldn’t get many of either side to order a ‘ham sandwich’ exactly the same YET they ALL (pre)tend to be in lockstep (HA) and vote party line no matter what the issue or consequence.


20 posted on 03/06/2021 8:36:07 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
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