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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Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Richard Burr are all assistant Democrat traitorous SCUM.
Time to repeal the 17th Amendment
Assistant Democrats assisting the Democrats, AGAIN!
GOPee: failing when it counts yet again.
The Pfizer Kneepad Men
These four senators are coming down on the side of fraud, not freedom.
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Some people will never learn.
Lindsey Graham ordered Capitol Police to murder protesters en masse on
Jan 6th, and he admitted to doing it.
He protected Biden from Investigations for four years, and he’s now pushing a SCOTUS that ruled non-Vaxxed could be fired en masse.
Graham and Cheney were tight with Fauci before this all started, and they ran out to protect him at critical junctures.
Tim Scott is another RINO that people are seemingly always surprised when he sides up to the Dems.
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Burr and Graham launched a scheme to investigate Trump’s kids - with Dem Mark Warner.
At the same time, they were blocking all Investigations of Biden’s Foreign Family business.
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Linda’s done it again
Burr doesn’t need to be blackmailed. He’s a natural dirtbag piece of crappola.
Linda’s done it again
Disgusting traitors. This tells us all we need to know.
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And more uninformed people will be shocked when Hannity yucks it up with Graham and doesn’t ask him about his votes and actions here.
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Snakes!
Burr. It figures.
What do you expect the same RINOS not voting for their consistuents.
Assholes. And Trump continues to hang out with Miss Lindsey and take his/her advice.
Mitt is unfit.
These dirty rotten scoundrels just keep screwing us over. Maybe ancient Greece had it right with a straight up democracy. Why do we have a group of elites to “represent” us when they only represent themselves. You can choose from Party A (a communist) or Party B (corporatist globalist tyrant) to “represent” you.
It’s all very representative of our wishes.
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