Six Republican Senators could not bring themselves to vote for the pork contained in the recent stimulus bill.
According to Fox News:
After months of stalled negotiations, Congress finally passed a new $900 billion coronavirus relief package late Monday night with overwhelming support in the Senate, but six Republicans stood firmly against it.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., all stood firmly against the bill, which had been bundled with a $1.4 trillion spending bill to avoid a government shutdown. Their criticisms largely focused on the size of the legislation, both in terms of the dollar amount and the bill’s page count.
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Cruz and Lee also criticized the process of the legislation, with lawmakers having just hours to read several thousand pages. After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized the concept of having to vote on a large bill without having time to examine it, Cruz agreed with the left-wing Democrat.
“It’s ABSURD to have a $2.5 trillion spending bill negotiated in secret and then—hours later—demand an up-or-down vote on a bill nobody has had time to read,” Cruz tweeted.
.@AOC is right.
It’s ABSURD to have a $2.5 trillion spending bill negotiated in secret and then—hours later—demand an up-or-down vote on a bill nobody has had time to read. #CongressIsBroken https://t.co/EQp8BfRBHj
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 21, 2020
2/4 Here’s the really sad thing: we’re being told that there will be no opportunity to amend or improve it. As a result, nearly every member of Congress — House and Senate, Democrat or Republican — will have been excluded from the process of developing this bill,
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
4/4 It won’t come to an end until no longer works for those empowered by it. That can happen, but only when most members of both houses and both political parties stop voting for bills they haven’t read—and, by design, cannot read until after it’s too late.
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) December 21, 2020
Washington continues to operate unchecked, but these 6 senators were not going to stand for it.
The rest are complicit in the NWO coup.
They voted “NO” because they are by God patriots.
Our own government working against us. Wasting taxpayer money every chance they get while the citizens of our country suffer. Thanks msm for being the lapdogs of government.
Money spent in foreign lands makes it way back into the pockets of the grifters who vote for it.
Actually they are “OWNED” by the liberals like Soros.
I applaud those who opposed this travesty.
Well said Wayne…at least they had the courage to stand up for our free enterprise system. Oops, I forgot, they probably don’t know what Free Enterprise means.
Hard to believe that years ago an most notable Democrat said, “And now my fellow American’s, ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country”.
For those who don’t know how that turned, someone had him shot…to shut him up for good.
Some speculate, too, that it was because of JFK’s Executive Order 11110 which would take power away from the Federal Reserve and the US government would create its own money backed by silver and gold. By the way, the Federal Reserve Bank is a private corporation of bankers and not an arm of the government. As always, follow the money. Greedy people will stop at nothing and even commit murder to enrich themselves.
How right you are sir! If only people would do more investigative research themselves they might learn why so many of our presidents have opposed the Federal Reserve, a bunch of bankers thriving off WE THE PEOPLE
and charging interest on monies they ‘invent’ , money that is supposed to be ours !?, a truly Titanic fraud !.
I’ve lived many years, and saw the Mafia take over Chicago, Detroit, and the UNIONS. Now the unions “BUY” the Dems and Rinos every election. They just use a nicer sounding word, “DONATE”. Then we have a NAZI, Mr. George Soros that spent tens of millions this election to get liberals elected. I don’t read the “Lame Stream Media”, but will bet they don’t cover that?
Amen, brother. There should have been an additional 94 no votes.
It’s just too bad we have so many so-called conservative who actually voted for this monstrosity.
Actually it shows how few we have who are brave, honest, and patriotic. The overwhelming number were crooked as a snake in the grass. The Pig is grunting in satisfaction. She held up the stimulus package until she knew they would cave!
Of course he DID NOT “win”… There was so much rampant voter fraud, and VIDEOS to prove it, a “blind person” could “see” it. I doubt that many LEGAL American citizens would “welcome” the END of our Constitutional republic, and embrace a “third-world”, banana republic”, COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP CESSPOOL, HIGHER TAXES, MORE REGULATION. LOST FREEDOMS, and COMMUNIST CHINA (the “masters”)”calling the shots”, as dementia-joe, “cameltoe” harris, the ineligible “anchor baby”, as well as and the biden family crime syndicate have been bought, sold, and owned by communist china.
I saw a video of Soros’ palace in China. Tall stone walls around it, and guards armed with machine guns. Does anyone know who Chelsea Clinton married? And where the wedding was? Who paid for the wedding? Just think Y’all should all know those answers?
He is tied in to the Piglosi family as well.
I agree with these brave Senators. President Trump should veto this road apple.
GOOD FOR THEM. CONGRATZ ALL FOR STANDING UP AND HAVING THE ‘GUTS’ and FORTITUDE to say, ‘NO’ !!! THANK YOU, Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rick Scott, R-Fla., !!!!! 🙂 This Stimulus BILL SCREWS AMERICANS !!!!!
Absolutely no bill should be passed unless it is fully read, that’s another reason as well as a WHOLE LOT of others, we just need a civil war to reorganize the country, 1 oz of cheating on voting should be high federal offense, we should be way above a lot of things going on. TERM LIMITS FOR ONE. We will reach the boiling point wait and see.
It’s the “TYPICAL” Pelosi way of passing a “Bull Cookie”. Just like she did with “ObamaCare”! I vote “NO” on this bill!
Her famous quote, “Let’s pass this Bill so we can see what is in it?”
Everyone who voted for this bill should be voted out. This insanity needs to stop – congress just voted to make Americans all up and down the ladder poorer and poorer on both a global and domestic scale – what devious undertaking is going on behind the scenes – perhaps Cruz, Paul and others can tell us – We want answers!!!
I pray President Trump puts his veto on this swine filled bill. It is NOT what the country needs right now. I know people are hurting as well, but be fair, how far will $600 go?
It will go to pay for a giant “hangover” for a lot of people and a little for Christmas presents! What a crying shame….2.5 trillion added debt for America and one giant hangover for untold numbers!
Just keep voting Democrat and soon they will just do whatever they want and to heck with us. We are second class, they are the Elite and deserve to impose and taxes they want, and spend our money any way they want to. That is why it is legal for them to add all these different pork spending bills to the main one. Either reject the one badly needed or pass it as well as all the pork stealing ones. Typical Democrat stealing plan. Still think they did not steal the election?
Wasting taxpayer dollars on “gender studies” in Pakistan, money to Vietnam, etc. How does that put Americans back to work! We now know we have only 6 patriot senators!
Nancy’s motto operandis “ passing a bill without reading it and finding out what it contain after the bill passed . Disgraceful on her part . What this people had done against the American people is disgraceful. I agree with AOC Nancy and all other whom been refer fir more than three decades should be asked to leave . They are doing a disservice to our President the people and our country .
And please…..someone escort AOC, the cult leader of the marxist squat squad, and her cult followers to the nearest airport and present them with a one way paid in full ticket to Venezuela! That communist leader and those poor people won’t know what hit them until they are history! AOC and Company will hit that place like a new buzz saw!
If this were done in a corporate setting , well it wouldnt be!!!! 3 hrs to print, how long to read, then digest and question etc??????? They have NO idea how to conduct buisness FOR THE PEOPLE
90% of Congress would be fired before their probation period, if we had one, was over in a Corporate setting! They don’t have a clue how to run a business AND these idiots have America’s “checkbook”!
We don’t need good old boys in D.C., we need people who know what the hell they are doing, to take care of America’s finances!
We need a “policies and procedures manual” full of mandatory qualifications and experience to even run for Congress, President or VP! We would cull the dead wood before they ever got elected and entrenched in D.C.
I feel like we are “in the barrel” 24/7!
Carol: I remember when POTUS first went to congress. He told Mitch that he wanted something done a certain way. He was politely?? told, “We don’t do things that way.” If remember correctly, POTUS’ response was something to the effect, do it anyway.
I’m proud of our Senator Cruz. He is a man I was happy to vote for instead of voting for because he’s not a leftist Democrat like I had to with the swamp rat John Cornyn.
What pretends to be our government is stacked to the top with con artists and grifters who pretend to act in the interest of the people and who have developed and accepted a methodology to completely divert and corrupt our system of government for their own interests. They vote in mass tribally without even knowing what will come of their actions as long as some small piece of their legislation suits some personal special interest. It is well past time for the people to take back their country, peacefully if possible.
It’s past time to give the president the line item veto.
Please veto!!
Make America great again
President Trump VETO this ABORTION Of a bill!
These are the real leaders of the Congress. They have backbones.
I hope President Trump will veto this bill on national TV; After explaining to the American people just how little is actually going to WE THE PEOPLE and how much is being given away to foreign countries, most of whom are not our allies!
This stimulus fake ass pkg is bullshit to the American taxpayers to give it to burma, asla etc etc. AMERICAN’S WORK TO DAMN HARD FOR THIS CROCK. ALL YOU PANCY ASS REPUBLICANS NEED YOUR PAYCHECKS TAKEN AWAY NOW LORD PUT THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT AND SEE HOW THEY LIKE IT. THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WRONG. AMERICAN’S AREN’T WORKING TO GIVE IT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES OR ILLEGALS. WHAT A CROCK TO THE HARD WORKING AMERICAN’S. THE AMERICAN TAXPAYING PATRIOTS, AND VETERANS OF THIS COUNTRY COME FIRST. LET ME ASK YOU THIS. WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DO FOR THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS. OH I KNOW NOT A DAMN THING. TIME FOR AMERICANS TO STAND STRONGER AND FIGHT BACK HARD. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THIS IS NOT HOW AMERICAN’S SHOULD BE TREATED. WE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYING PATRIOTS DESERVE MORE. SO YOU WORTHLESS RATS CALLED REPUBLICANS AND DEMONRATS THAT CAN’T STAND IN HONOR,AND
PRIDE FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS. GET THE SAM HELL OUTTA THE USA 🇺🇸. AND GO LIVE THERE. GET THE FUCK OUT NOW. AMERICAN’S ARE SICK OF YOUR PATHETIC ASSES THAT MAKE YOU ANTI AMERICAN COMMUNISTS RAT’S. GET OUT. GET OUT. YOUR SHAMEFUL, DISRESPECTFUL DISGUSTING.,AND AS WORTHLESS AS TITS ON A BOAR. AND TO TELL THE ANALOGY OF THE STATEMENT. TITS ON A BOAR MEAN SHIT IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO WHAT GOOD ARE THEY. NOTHING. THIS IS ALL FOR YA CAN’T TAKE STUPID OUT OF STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPIDITY WITH YOU MORONS. IN GOD WE TRUST AND GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸. 🇺🇸. LORD THEY ALL NEED HELP. THIS IS FROM MY HEART TO THERE’S. AND HEAR MY PRAYER. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN 🙏.
One reason they don’t read the bills is most are not able to read at an 8th grade level of comprehension.
The DEMOCRAT ARISTOCRACY owe bundles or money, more than barry obanana shipped to Iran as a thank you, to their sentient and virtual voters.
I pray Donald TRump vetos it! Make the Damocrats stay in session until it is actually understood, debated, and gets all the CRAP pulled out of it. NO money to bailout dems cities going bankrupt! Not only NO, But “HELL NO”! Let the dems stay in DC over Christmas, and a few weeks into January.
They voted right. We need either Stand Alone Bills, or a Line Item Veto right, so the president can delete all the pork out of a bill. But don’t count on the Scum-o-crats allowing this to happen.
make a law that cut large bills in pieces so it can be read then sign off on the pieces noone should vote on something they dont have time to read thats just stupid
dang it crazy times I just saw a demon ice skating past my window ..true ..it was just cruzzing !? . for the 1st and probably last time [ excepting we do hope she will make a public apology for the pain she has caused the american people ] AOC has said something sensible !? … and Ted Cruz agrees with her !? . American people need help ,now , how can it need a 5000 page document to accomplish that ?. Is this a measure of how much swamp needs axing ? 5000:1 . To punish a roman legion that had misbehaved a decimation could be carried out ,1 in every 10 would be executed . Does the Washington establishment need 4999 in every 5000 removed ?. If there are 40 000 lobbyists mostly for big pHARMa this maybe about right . [ 10 million for transgender studies in pakistan !!! ]
Just some more Damocrap bullpoops.
No one should have approved this bill. Take all the pork out. Give the money they were allotting to other countries and add those amounts to the American people stimulus since they have so much money to hand out.
This is reminiscent of the affordable healthcare bill that had thousands of pages and even more pork forced on the American taxpayer because Pelosi said “there isn’t time to read it”! Every member that voted for that bill should be fired and immediately removed from office for dereliction of duty! This entire fiasco of forcing Congress or the Senate to vote on bills they have no idea of what’s been written into the bill is insane. We can fire them all saving trillions and just throw a dart at a spinning faro wheel and get more for our wasted dollars!!
Pelosi is certainly proving she doesn’t know her A from a hole in the wall. She’s out to lunch and has taken the afternoon off. Time for this old bag of bones to be gone. She doesn’t seem to realize what a fool she’s made of herself and how she continues to do so, and she doesn’t seem to realize her time has come and gone. Term Limits, anyone?