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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Weasels...
“This of course ws done on purpose. Uniparty.”
This ^^^^^^^
But Inhofe is a has been....for over 14 + years.
Useless...and Lankford ain't far behind him,
Burr is not running for reelection. The writing was on the wall that he would be primaried so he’s “retiring”. Several rinos are running for his seat so we have nothing good to vote for in NC. Disgusting.
VENGEANCE is MINE, saith The LORD
I WILL repay!
Bring on the convoy! 100,000 trucks
surrounding DC.
EVIL RINOS!!!
Romney, Burr and Graham... Hmmmm... who’d’ve thought it?
The absences were INTENTIONAL.
This is China Mitch delivering for Big Pharma. He played the same swamp games getting the FDA commissioner confirmed last week. These guys are making it so easy for my family not to vote for Little Marco. Never again.
McConnell engineered their ‘not present’ status.
If Hannity is so dead set on having Lindsey Graham on his show, why can’t he hold his feet to the fire on this issue, as well as Graham speeding the process to appoint socialist judges, as well as his international war-mongering stances ?
Inquiring minds would like an answer.
I think this was McConnell’s idea.
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