Posted on 02/17/2022 5:46:14 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Four Senate Republicans failed to show up to vote on an amendment that would have defunded President Biden’s remaining vaccine mandates, thus ensuring its failure.
The Senate voted on Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) amendment to the continuing resolution (CR), which would defund Biden’s remaining vaccine mandates. The measure failed 46-47, with Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Burr (R-NC) failing to show up, depriving Senate Republicans a potential majority to pass the amendment to the CR.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) set the vote threshold to a majority, and it remains possible that he could have set the threshold to 60 if Republicans had enough votes to pass with a majority; however, Democrats broke and voted to defund Biden’s private employer mandate the last time they voted on vaccine mandates. This could have put more pressure on Democrats to support the defunding of Biden’s vaccine mandates.
Lee said after the vote, sharing a video of his Senate floor speech demanding to defund the vaccine mandates:
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Jon Tester (D-MT) voted in December for a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to defund the private employer vaccine mandate.
Manchin and Tester voted no on Lee’s amendment.
Lee and Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Ted Cruz (R-TX) have led the fight to defund Biden’s vaccine mandates.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said in reaction to the failed vote, “Missing R’s keeping vax mandates alive? Romney (UT), Inhofe (OK), Burr (NC), & Graham (SC). No excuses – they should all be shamed. Now – EVERY @SenateGOP should be held accountable for voting to fund this government. Watch, count the votes, then act. ”
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The absences were INTENTIONAL.
I hope the money they received for not showing up was worth the shtistrom they’ll have till the day they die.
These clowns need to hurt like they hurt us.
RINO scum do it again.
RINO bastards.
Be all their sins remember’d...
They must have pictures of Burr with little girls or nuns. 10M in stock trades isn’t enough to explain this.
This of course ws done on purpose.
Uniparty.
Inhoffe is another sorry sob.
I’ll write him and tell him so.
What picks.
They need a honkening.
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People keep vote for these lesser of two evils RINOs so we keep ending up with Democrats in positions that would otherwise, in one election cycle, be filled filled by an authentic Republican.
You have to vote these people out, whatever the short term cost.
They boycotted the vote rather than face the music 🤪
I hope they get relief very soon.
Romney, Inhofe, Graham and Burr - The Four Horsemen of the Acuckalypse.
No doubt about it.
Remember the time to beat them is during the primaries. If you can’t knock them out you have to vote for them because, something about their better than the Democrats? They hate freedom loving Americans as much as the Democrats.
Damn!
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