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GOP votes down bill to assist veterans effected by burn pits
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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 5347178" data-attributes="member: 45230"><p>Many of the Republican senators who voted against the act have stayed quiet since Wednesday’s vote, but Sen. Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania said he voted against it because it included a “budget gimmick” that would reclassify nearly $400 billion of projected discretionary spending as mandatory, making it easier for appropriators to use that money elsewhere in the budget.</p><p></p><p>"[It’s] designed to allow hundreds of billions of dollars in additional, unrelated spending having nothing to do with veterans,” Toomey said after the vote.</p><p></p><p>Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said there had been an agreement between Tester and Senate Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, for two amendment votes. But Cornyn said Schumer would not allow those votes to take place.</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.coffeeordie.com/burn-pit-bill-republicans-block[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 5347178, member: 45230"] Many of the Republican senators who voted against the act have stayed quiet since Wednesday’s vote, but Sen. Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania said he voted against it because it included a “budget gimmick” that would reclassify nearly $400 billion of projected discretionary spending as mandatory, making it easier for appropriators to use that money elsewhere in the budget. "[It’s] designed to allow hundreds of billions of dollars in additional, unrelated spending having nothing to do with veterans,” Toomey said after the vote. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said there had been an agreement between Tester and Senate Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, for two amendment votes. But Cornyn said Schumer would not allow those votes to take place. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.coffeeordie.com/burn-pit-bill-republicans-block[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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