Senate Passes Virus Relief; Sends Bill to Trump: Congress Update

[Polybius]

Source: Yahoo! Finance

(Bloomberg) -- The Senate passed the massive year-end legislation combining $900 billion in pandemic relief with $1.4 trillion to fund federal agencies through fiscal 2021.

The Senate’s 91-7 vote sends the bill to President Donald Trump to sign into law. The House passed the legislation earlier Monday night.

The total bill is worth more than $2.3 trillion, including support for small businesses impacted by the pandemic, $600 payments for most individuals, supplemental unemployment insurance, regular funding for federal agencies and a bevy of tax breaks for companies.

Other Developments:

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mnuchin-says-stimulus-checks-coming-161024184.html

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91-7

[revmclaren]

1. Who were the senators who voted

against the aid bill and the immediate and dire needs of the American people?

They will be remembered!

[sweetloukillbot]

2. My money is on Rand Paul

[Polybius]

3. Rand Paul is almost certain to have been one of the 7

I'd love to see a roll call.

[LizBeth]

4. Blackburn, Paul, Scott, Johnson, Lee and Cruz

The six Republican senators who voted against the bill were Sens. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas.

[Polybius]

5. Who was the one Democrat then?

There were 7 No's.

[durablend]

6. Only 6 no's

Not Voting - 2
Enzi (R-WY)
Rounds (R-SD)

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=2&vote=00289

[George II]

11. Originally they announced 7 no votes, that was changed to 6. This note is at the end of the article:

(A previous version included the revised vote tally, corrected by the Senate.)

[George II]

10. The vote was changed to 92-6, with 2 NV. The House vote was 359-53, with 2 Democrats voting no...

17, all republicans, were NV.

[NurseJackie]

13. Two Democrats voted no? That's disappointing.

[George II]

14. Two Democrats in the HOUSE voted no....

The two Democrats voting with those 50 republicans and Amash (now independent) were Gabbard and Tlaib.

Very curious vote.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Those are exactly who I figured except I forgot about Rick Scott

who has sortof been flying under the radar lately.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. These people are paid to pass big bills they don't even read

It's a kind of 'I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine.' The staffs are running the show.

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”

----- Hannah Arendt

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8521299-in-a-fully-developed-bureaucracy-there-is-nobody-left-with

[yaesu]

9. Got my electric blanket & box of crackerjacks in layaway waiting for that YUGE relief, whoop, whoop!

[The Mouth]

12. Foreign aid - who the hell put this in there?

$500 million "for the Israeli Cooperative Programs." It also includes funding for other countries, including $500 million for Jordanian defense spending and $33 million for Venezuela's democracy programs.