Posted on 09/30/2021 11:18:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican amendment that attempted to block President Joe Biden’s announced mandate for private businesses with 100 or more workers.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) introduced the amendment (pdf) to a government funding measure, blocking the usage of federal money for COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Republicans and Democrats split 50-50 on the vote, falling short of the 60 votes required to pass the amendment.
“My wife and I got the vaccine. My parents got the vaccine and they’re waiting to get their booster. But whether to receive it is a personal choice between individuals and their doctor, not mandated via unconstitutional executive actions that the administration recently acknowledged they didn’t have authority to put in place,” Marshall said in support of his amendment.
But Marshall argued that the Biden administration’s mandates—details of which have yet to be disclosed—are tantamount to federal overreach and would significantly weaken the economy by fining private businesses. The vaccine mandate, he said, is merely an attempt by the federal government to acquire more power and isn’t about dealing with the pandemic.
“No precedent exists in American history for punishing private employers who don’t enforce government vaccination edicts,” he said. “Astonishingly, House Democrats included fines up to $700,000 on businesses that have unvaccinated employees as a way to pay for their out of control spending.”
In a statement to The Epoch Times on Wednesday, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) confirmed the agency is working on the rule, which would require businesses to “ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), a senior member of the Democrat caucus, on Thursday, said he wouldn’t support the amendment, noting the 700,000 Americans who have been reported to have died from COVID-19.
“Drive down the mall and look at the flags by the Washington Monument,” Leahy said in reference to a display of flags marking their deaths. The amendment “weakens one of our strongest tools to get people safely through this crisis,” he added.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has frequently encouraged people to get vaccinated and received his booster shot earlier this week, voted in favor of Marshall’s amendment on Thursday.
Several Republican-led states have promised to sue the Biden administration as soon as OSHA releases the rule. Biden announced the mandate, which would apply to tens of millions of workers at private businesses, on Sept. 9, as well as other mandates requiring vaccinations for all federal workers, federal contractors, and healthcare workers who are employed at facilities that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding.
I can guarantee you the Republicans had no fear they would
win this one.
They talk so big and stand so tall when they have no power.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
Republicans talk so big and stand so tall when they have no power.
***Tagline worthy. I’ll add it to the tagline page.
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Golly gee. Guess I have to get it now. NOT! 💉🐴💩
Cloture.
Not holding my breath though.
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These are the US senators that want to take away your most basic human rights:
Question: On the Amendment (Marshall Amdt. No. 3831 )
Vote Number: 395
Vote Date: September 30, 2021, 11:52 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5
Vote Result: Amendment Rejected
Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 3831 to S.Amdt. 3830 to H.R. 5305 (Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act)
Statement of Purpose: To prohibit the use of Federal funds for implementing or enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Vote Counts:
YEAs50
NAYs
50
*Information compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate bill clerk under the direction of the secretary of the Senate
NAYs -—50
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lujan (D-NM)
Manchin (D-WV)
Markey (D-MA)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Sinema (D-AZ)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
And all the Deep State aka DC Swamp Republicans that, I believe, helped oust Trump are bombarding emails and messages begging for money to “Win back the House and Senate in 2022”. Silly people. They are too clueless to realize Chuck Tumor is just waiting for the right time to pass S1. Good bye Republicans chances of wining any election of significance for the next 50 years.
they don’t care because they’re left wing dems in disguise anyway.
Thank you. That was my first thought, as well.
McConnell and the anti-Trumpers, I am sure “paid” the Democrats to steal the election with the Georgia and Arizona Senate seats.
“We’ll let you win, but we don’t want to be responsible - for anything!”
I still say, hang the Donks, first, but these guys and gals are a close second.
I can guarantee you the Republicans had no fear they would
win this one.
They talk so big and stand so tall when they have no power.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
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Nailed it!
Thanks, and I agree with your thoughts there also.
High branch. Short rope.
Thanks Flick Lives...
The latest report; US elections are rigged!!
Interesting. Not one Republican voted against this amendment. They actually held together. Not bad.
Sad we have to celebrate when the GOP is united in ding the right thing.
Sad that the bulk of Freepers spend 100% of our time bitching the GOP doesn’t do anything then when they do something spend 100% of their time bitching about them not really meaning it
Really sad how the Whine All the Time choir here never ever manges to fight the Dems on anything. They are always to busy whining at the GOP to have any time.
No wonder Conservative Inc is the most ineffective political movement in history. They are never interested in doing anything useful, they just want to sit and bitch at those who are.
The GOP is worthless, that’s why all the bitching and whining.
I have recently posted two videos on FR.
One is an interview with former AZ sheriff Richard Mack (leader of Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers of America).
The other one is an eye opening must see YouTube video called Noncompliant Movie. It is a live presentation by a brilliant and passionate Constitutional attorney who makes an absolutely undeniable case that it is the states and local sheriffs who have the power over the federal government except for the very few specific and limited powers delegated by the states to the feds in the Constitution.
Freepers who haven’t watched these videos (which sadly, is the vast majority) can find them by searching FR for “Communist Mandate” and “Noncompliant movie.”
The point is that under the Constitution, and with the active blocking of Federal agents by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers of America, Biden can shove his EOs and mandates up his ass.
Don’t believe me? Feel free to answer me with your disagreements, but not not until you have watched both videos in their entirety.
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