#Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)

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This might not work, since the Constitution explicitly states that all funding bills must originate in the House. Schumer may get around that by attaching an amendment in the nature of a substitute to an existing bill passed by the House. Either way, it's an attempt at showmanship, brandishing "competance" as a weapon for 2024.

#Senate Majority Leader #Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) #Chuck Schumer #Majority Leader Schumer #U.S. Senate #Senate #Senate appropriations #government funding #appropriations #one month left #Government shutdown?

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Tim Campbell

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 29, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAR 1, 2024

Today’s story is that in the negotiations to fund the government and pass the national supplemental security bill, MAGA Republicans appear to be losing ground. Biden appears to be trying to weaken them further by making it clear it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are preventing new, strict border security legislation.

The first of two continuing resolutions to fund the government for fiscal year 2024 will expire tomorrow. Fiscal year 2024 began on October 1, 2023, and Congress agreed to a topline budget, but it has been unable to fund the necessary appropriations because MAGA Republicans have insisted on having their extreme demands met in those measures. In this struggle, former president Trump has urged his loyalists not to give way, telling them in September 2023: “UNLESS YOU GET EVERYTHING, SHUT IT DOWN!” 

But a poll from last September showed that 75% of Americans oppose using brinksmanship over a government shutdown to bargain for partisan gain. 

After kicking the can down the road by passing three previous continuing resolutions, House Republicans a week ago expected a shutdown. But today they backed off. The House passed a short-term continuing resolution that pushes back the dates on which the two continuing resolutions expire, from March 1 and March 8 to March 8 and March 22. The vote was 320 to 99 in the House, with 113 Republicans joining 207 Democrats to pass the measure. Ninety-seven Republicans opposed the bill, as did two Democrats who were protesting the lack of aid to Ukraine. 

Tonight, the Senate approved the continuing resolution by a vote of 77 to 13. President Joe Biden is expected to sign it tomorrow. “What we have done today has overcome the opposition of the MAGA hard right and gives us a formula for completing the appropriations process in a way that does not shut the government down and capitulate to extremists,” Senate majority leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) said.

Trump opposes helping Ukraine in its fight to resist Russia’s invasion, and under his orders, MAGA Republicans have also stalled the national security supplemental bill, which contains Ukrainian aid, as well as aid to Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and humanitarian aid to Gaza. The measure passed the Senate on February 13 by a strong bipartisan vote of 70 to 29, and is expected to pass the House if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) takes it up, but so far, he has refused.

Today, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told reporters that “several” House Republicans are willing to sign a discharge petition to force Speaker Johnson to bring a national security supplemental measure to the floor for a vote. A simple majority can force a vote on a bill through a discharge petition, but such a measure is rare because it undermines the House speaker. With Johnson refusing to take up the Senate measure, Fitzpatrick and his colleague Representative Jared Golden (D-ME) have prepared their own pared-down aid measure. Fitzpatrick told CNN’s Jake Tapper Tuesday that “[w]e are trying to add an additional pressure point on something that has to happen.” 

Speakers from the parliaments of 23 nations wrote to Johnson yesterday and urged him to take up the Senate measure, saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has “challenged the entire democratic world, jeopardizing the security in the whole European and Euro-Atlantic area,” and that “the world is rapidly moving towards the destruction of the sustainable world order.”  

On Tuesday, Johnson met with President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate majority leader Schumer, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to discuss the importance of funding the government and passing the national security supplemental bill. There, he was the odd man out as the other five pressed upon him how crucial funding for Ukraine is for U.S. national security.

Yesterday, Johnson told Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity that the leaders told him he was “on an island by myself, and it was me versus everyone else in the room.” He went on: “What the liberal media doesn’t understand, Sean, is that if you’re here in Washington and you’re described as a leader that’s on an island by themselves, it probably means you’re standing with the American people.” 

But an AP-NORC poll released today shows that it is not Johnson but the others at that meeting who are standing with the American people: 74% of Americans, including 62% of Republicans, support U.S. aid to Ukraine’s military. 

The struggle between Biden and Trump for control over U.S. politics played out starkly today as both were in Texas to talk about immigration. Both say the influx of migrants at the southern border of the United States needs to be better managed. But Trump blames Biden for what he compares to a war in which an “invasion” of criminal “fighting-age men” are pouring over the border. (NBC News noted that “there is no evidence of a migrant-driven crime wave in the United States” and that, in fact, their review of crime data ”shows overall crime levels dropping in those cities that have received the most migrants.”)

Trump promises he would solve immigration issues instantly with executive orders, although his orders during his term faced legal challenges.  

In contrast to Trump’s promise to dictate a solution, Biden emphasized that the government should work for the people. In Texas, he noted that the federal government has rushed emergency personnel and funds to the state to combat the deadly wildfires there that have burned more than a million acres, and he urged Congress to pass a law to address border issues, as he has asked it to since he took office. 

Such a measure is popular, and earlier this month, Trump undermined a bill that was tilted so far to the right that it drew the support of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Wall Street Journal editorial board, and the U.S. Border Patrol union. Senators from both parties had spent four months hammering the bill out at the insistence of House Republicans, who then killed it when Trump, apparently hoping to keep the issue open for his campaign, told them to. 

Today, Biden urged Congress to pass the $20.2 billion bipartisan border bill that would, he said, give border patrol officers the resources they need: 1,500 more border agents, 100 cutting-edge machines to detect and stop illegal fentanyl, 100 additional immigration judges to deal with the backlog of cases, 4,300 more asylum officers, more immigrant visas, and emergency authority for the president to shut the border when it becomes overwhelmed. 

Biden spoke directly to Trump: “Instead of playing politics with the issue, instead of telling members of Congress to block this legislation, join me, or I'll join you, in telling the Congress to pass this bipartisan border security bill. We can do it together…. Instead of playing politics with the issue, why don't we just get together and get it done. Let’s remember who the heck we work for. We work for the American people, not the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. We work for the American people.”

Trump may not share that perspective. Last night, Maggie Haberman and Andrew Higgins of the New York Times reported that Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has undermined democracy in Hungary, will visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago next week as Trump scrambles to find the more than half a billion dollars he needs to pay the fines and penalties courts have ordered. “We cannot interfere in other countries’ elections,” Orbán said last week, “but we would very much like to see President Donald Trump return to the White House.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#GOPutin #political cartoons #Tim Campbell #Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #American Foreign Policy #war in Ukraine #Russia #dictators #Orban #government funding #feckless Speaker of the House #National Security

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Video: Charles Schumer blasts Fox News' handling of election lies

Top Democrats sent a scathing letter to Fox. Hear from one of them Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tells CNN’s John Berman about the letter he and other Democrats wrote to Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch about Fox News’ handling of election lies.

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Video: Charles Schumer blasts Fox News' handling of election lies

Top Democrats sent a scathing letter to Fox. Hear from one of them Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tells CNN’s John Berman about the letter he and other Democrats wrote to Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch about Fox News’ handling of election lies. Source link

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[truthblockchain]

The Blockchain Counter Lobby

A group of tech experts and academics wrote to U.S. lawmakers criticizing cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in the first concerted attempt to counter lobbying by the crypto industry, the Financial Times reported Wednesday.

The 26 signatories include Harvard lecturer Bruce Schneier, former Microsoft engineer Miguel de Icaza and principal engineer at Google Cloud, Kelsey Hightower, the FT said.

"We urge you to resist pressure from digital asset industry financiers, lobbyists, and boosters to create a regulatory safe haven for these risky, flawed, and unproven digital financial instruments," the letter says, according to the report.

The letter is addressed to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as well as leading senators Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), who have both been supportive of the crypto industry.

According to Schneier, “The claims that the blockchain advocates make are not true ... It’s not secure, it’s not decentralized. Any system where you forget your password and you lose your life savings is not a safe system.”

“We’re counter-lobbying, that’s what this letter is about,” said software developer Stephen Diehl. “The crypto industry has its people, they say what they want to the politicians.” Diehl is a consistent crypto critic, having published a number of crypto-skeptic blogs on his website in the last few years.

Crypto companies spent around $9 million on lobbying in 2021, more than triple the $2.8 million spent the previous year. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was the biggest spender accounting for $1.5 million of this figure.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/06/01/tech-experts-counter-lobby-washington-criticizing-crypto-blockchain-report/?outputType=amp

[96thdayofrage]

Pres. Biden and VP Harris will be in Atlanta to talk about voting rights legislation that continues to be held up in the U.S. Senate. According to King "you can not come to a city like this and pay homage to the one (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) who sacrificed his very life and not make this (voting rights) a priority and champion it even moreso than has been done in the past."

Along with a speech at the Atlanta University Center, the President and Vice President are also expected to visit the King Center.

King says she will continually remind Biden and Harris of their power. "It's no irony that both of them came out of the Senate. This should be something they should be easily able to utilize their platform to change minds and hearts."

The daughter of the late civil rights leader says voting rights "is not a black issue" but rather "about the heart and soul of who we are as a democracy." Yet, she cautions that this is an election year and "you can't dangle a carrot saying 'we need you'" when the opposite is reality. King adding that she understands the sentiment of those who say they "are not going to continue to be used" and decide instead to "sit this one out."

Republicans in the U.S. Senate continue to use the 60-vote filibuster rule to block voting rights legislation. If they continue to stall Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) says he will force a vote to change the Senate rules by January 17th, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

[madamtazzz]

Sen. Schumer threatens to get rid of the Senate filibuster if GOP doesn’t fold | Conservative Institute

The Republicans needs to grow a pair and stand pat.

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14 amendment votes today before a vote on final passage. The deadline is 36 hours away. tick tock tick tock tick tock

#tick tock #36 hours left #omnibus spending bill #H.R. 2617 #FY2013 #Federal government funding #Senate Majority Leader #Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) #amendments #Senate #U.S. Senate #vote #appropriations #Government Shutdown?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

For weeks now, I have vowed that I would finish these letters early and get to bed before midnight, and for weeks now, I have finally finished around three in the morning. That was not the case two years ago, when I started writing these at the start of the Ukraine crisis: it was rare enough for me to be writing until midnight that I vividly remember the first time it happened.

I got to thinking today about why things seem more demanding today than they did two years ago, and it strikes me that what makes the writing more time consuming these days is that we have two all-consuming stories running in parallel, and together they illuminate the grand struggle we are in for the survival of American democracy.

On the one hand we have the former president and the attempts by him and his loyalists to seize control of our country regardless of the will of the majority of voters, while Republican Party leaders are refusing to speak out in the hopes that they can retain power to continue advancing their agenda.

Since the 1980s, this branch of the Republican Party has tried to dismantle the government in place since the 1930s that tries to protect equality in America, regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, and promoting infrastructure. Members of this faction of the Republican Party—the faction that is now in control of it—want to take the government back to the 1920s, when businessmen controlled the government, operating it to try to create a booming economy without regard for social or environmental consequences.

Although initially unhappy at Donald Trump’s elevation to the White House, that faction embraced him as he advanced the tax cuts, deregulation, and destruction of government offices they believed were central to freeing businessmen to advance the economy. Believing that Democrats’ determination to use the government to level the playing field among Americans would destroy the individualism that supports the economy, they had come to believe that Democrats could not legitimately govern the country. And so, members of this Republican faction did not back away when Trump refused to accept the election of a Democratic president in 2020.

Almost a year later, the leadership of the Republican Party, composed now as it is of Trump loyalists, is undermining our democracy. It has fallen in line behind Trump’s Big Lie that he and not Biden won the 2020 election, and that the Democratic Party engaged in voter fraud to install their candidate. This is a lie, but Republicans at the state level are using that lie to justify new election laws that suppress Democratic votes and put control of state elections into their own hands. If those laws are allowed to stand, we will be a democracy in name only. We will likely still have elections, but, just as in Russia or Hungary now, the mechanics of the system will mean that only the president’s party can win.

This attack on our democracy is unprecedented, and it cannot be ignored. Tonight, for example, Trump held a “rally” in Perry, Georgia, where, to cheers, he straight up lied that the recent “audit” in Arizona proved he won the 2020 election. And yet, to overemphasize the antics of the former president and his supporters enables them to grow to larger proportions than they deserve, feeding their power. Tonight, for example, Newsmax and OAN covered Trump’s rally live, but the Fox News Channel did not, and the audience appeared bored.  

On the other hand, in contrast to the former president's party, President Joe Biden and the Democrats are trying to demonstrate that democracy actually works. Rather than simply fighting the Republicans, which would permit the Republicans to define the terms under which they govern, they are defending the active government the Republicans have set out to destroy. Biden has been clear since he took office that he intends to strengthen democracy abroad, where it is under pressure from rising autocratic governments, by strengthening it at home.

To that end, he and the Democrats in Congress have aggressively worked to pass legislation that benefits ordinary Americans. The wait for such legislation to appear can be frustrating, but that is in part because the Democrats are actually doing the kind of work that used to be commonplace in Congress: hammering out compromises, finding votes, arguing, amending legislation.

Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a letter she sent to her caucus, telling members they must vote this week to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government, as well as the two major infrastructure bills on which they have been working for months: the Build Back Better Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. While news stories have often turned the negotiations over these bills into a fight between moderate and progressive Democrats, it is important to remember that while a handful of Republicans were willing to agree to rebuild roads and bridges and to bring broadband to rural areas, most of them are simply not negotiating at all. They reject the idea that the government should invest in infrastructure, especially that kind outlined in the Build Back Better measure: infrastructure involving childcare, elder care, and climate change. And if they can run out the clock and convince voters that government can’t get anything done, so much the better.

Democrats disagree about the details of their measures—exactly as one would expect from a big-tent party—but they all accept the principle that the government should actively help ordinary Americans. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) might disagree on the size of the infrastructure package they want, but they both agree that the government should support infrastructure.

Republicans reject that idea, standing instead on the principle that the government should simply stay out of the way of businessmen, who are better equipped to manage the country than bureaucrats. The Charles Koch–backed Americans for Prosperity, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Federation of Independent Business are all pouring money into defeating the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill, warning: “A government takeover of our economy is a fundamental departure from the spirit of entrepreneurialism we’ve relied on for generations to drive prosperity, and there’s only one outcome—unmitigated economic disaster that will be difficult to reverse.”  

The profound disagreement between the Republicans and the Democrats over the role of government has led to a profound crisis in our democracy. Democrats’ argument that the government should work for ordinary Americans is popular, so popular that Republicans have apparently given up convincing voters their way is better. Through voter suppression, gerrymandering, the filibuster, and the Electoral College, and now with new election laws in 18 states, they have guaranteed that they will retain control no matter what voters actually want. Their determination to keep Democrats from power has made them abandon democracy.

For their part, Democrats are trying to protect the voting rights at the heart of our democracy, believing that if all eligible Americans can vote, they will back a government that works for the people.

And so, the task of writing these letters has gotten more complicated of late. I try to detail the growing threat that the Republicans will succeed in destroying our democracy while also explaining the ways in which the Biden administration is trying to move beyond the current crisis to demonstrate the vitality of American democracy.

And, always, I try to keep front and center that these fights are not academic. They are, fundamentally, a fight to determine whether a nation, “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...can long endure.”

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Notes:

Aaron Rupar @atruparTrump claims that the Arizona "audit," which affirmed Biden's victory in the state, actually concluded that he won. Shameless lying and his fans eat it up. #TrumpRally

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September 26th 2021

Aaron Rupar @atruparNewsmax and OAN are broadcasting the #TrumpRally in Georgia live. Fox News, notably, is not.

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https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92521

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/573610-koch-backed-group-launches-7-figure-ad-blitz-opposing

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#corrupt GOP #criminal GOP #Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #January 6 2021 #election fraud #lies and the lying liars

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Heather Cox Richardson

April 2, 2020 (Thursday)

Behind the confusion and foot-dragging as the White House confronts the global pandemic is the administration’s desire to dismantle the federal government and give power to businesspeople.

The Trump administration has been clear that it does not want the federal government to assume responsibility for American citizens any longer. Trump has refused to issue a stay at home order from the federal government, insisting instead that governors make their own calls. He has refused to use the Defense Production Act to mobilize industry to produce the masks and ventilators Americans so desperately need. He is refusing to tell manufacturers where to place their supplies. In place of government coordination, his administration officials are counting on business people to assume leadership.

Instead, the fifty states are trying to respond on their own. They are making their own decisions about what to shut down, when, and are bidding against each other for supplies. This piecemeal response to the pandemic crisis means we are not effectively cutting off the spread of the virus, or supporting the healthcare we will need.

Today Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) wrote to Trump to urge him to appoint a “senior military officer” as a “czar” to coordinate a federal response to the crisis and to use the DPA to increase production, procurement, and distribution of medical devices and equipment. “America cannot rely on a patchwork of uncoordinated voluntary efforts to combat the awful magnitude of this pandemic,” Schumer wrote. “The existing federal void has left America with an ugly spectacle in which States and cities are literally fending for themselves, often in conflict and competition with each other, when trying to procure precious medical supplies and equipment. The only way we will fix our PPE [personal protective equipment] and ventilator shortage is with a data-driven, organized and robust plan from the federal government. Anything short of that will inevitably mean this problem will remain unsolved and prolong this crisis.”

Trump responded with a letter that was remarkable, even by his standards. It began: “Thank you for your Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.” Trump denied that there was anything wrong with his administration’s response to the crisis. “As you are aware, the Federal Government is merely a back-up for state governments. Unfortunately, your state needed far more of a back-up than most states.”

He went on: “If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been unprepared for the ‘invisible enemy.’” (Schumer called for a declaration of a public health emergency on January 26.) “I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.”

Meanwhile, today Republican Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts gave a press conference in which he announced that the Kraft family, which owns the New England Patriots football team, had generously used the Patriots’ plane to transport more than 1 million masks the state had purchased in China, as well as picking up $2 million of the cost of the masks. While warmly complimenting the Kraft family’s generosity, state representative Katherine Clark said “this is not how it’s supposed to work…. What we need is a coordinated federal system.”

But there isn’t one. Instead, the White House is turning to private interests to manage the national response. It is a philosophical position embraced by those who would overturn the active government that has presided over the United States since the New Deal.

There was a remarkable moment tonight in the press conference tonight at the White House, flagged by Josh Marshall at TPM (Talking Points Memo). Countries have been sending supplies of masks, gowns, and so forth that our medical professionals so desperately need. But at the same time, ProPublica has reported that states are paying up to 15 times what medical supplies usually cost to get this equipment. So what’s going on?

At the press conference, Weijia Jiang of CBS News asked the official in charge of the shipments, Rear Admiral John P. Polowczyk, what was happening to them. He explained they are not going directly to the states or to FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). Rather, they are going to the private sector, which has systems in place for distributing such materials. But the states are in a bidding war in the private sector to buy this equipment, which is driving prices up.

Shouldn’t the federal government step in to stop profiteering and make sure states get the supplies they need? “I’m not here to disrupt a [commercial] supply chain,” the admiral said.

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ON THIS PRIDE MONTH PLEASE URGE YOUR SENATOR TO PASS THE EQUALITY ACT

If passed, the Equality Act would ban discrimination on the basis of sexuality. The immediate implication: lgbtq+ people could not be denied service on the basis of who they love. 

You can read the full text of the Equality Act Here. 

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What to say: “Hi, my name is ______, my zip code is______. I am calling to urge Senator_____ to vote yes for H.R. 5, the Equality Act. Thank you.”

The opinions stated on this post are mine alone, and do not represent the office I work for. 

#PLEASE REBLOG #i tried to make the title heading rainbow but it kept fucking up lol

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United States should make a massive investment in AI, top Senate Democrat says

Senator Charles Schumer (D–NY) says $100 billion more is needed to keep United States a global leader from Latest News from Science Magazine https://ift.tt/36R49ho via IFTTT

#Latest News from Science Magazine #Science Magazine #AAAS #Science #Daily News

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Fifty US senators affirmed that they indeed do believe that the activities of human beings contribute to climate change. OK. But 49 senators—fully half the upper house that represents our grand republic—do not. So, hey, you go out there and burn whatever carbon you want to? Not sure what to make of that. But we thought you might want to know just which representatives have absolved you of your responsibility to the planet. So here’s a list—of the senators who think climate change is some other species’ problem, and then the senators who wish we’d maybe do something about it.

Voted against the amendment (nay—human activities don’t contribute to climate change)

Barrasso, John (R - WY) Blunt, Roy (R - MO) Boozman, John (R - AR) Burr, Richard (R - NC) Capito, Shelley Moore (R - WV) Cassidy, Bill (R - LA) Coats, Daniel (R - IN) Cochran, Thad (R - MS) Corker, Bob (R - TN) Cornyn, John (R - TX) Cotton, Tom (R - AR) Crapo, Mike (R - ID) Cruz, Ted (R - TX) Daines, Steve (R - MT) Enzi, Michael B. (R - WY) Ernst, Joni (R - IA) Fischer, Deb (R - NE) Flake, Jeff (R - AZ) Gardner, Cory (R - CO) Grassley, Chuck (R - IA) Hatch, Orrin G. (R - UT) Heller, Dean (R - NV) Hoeven, John (R - ND) Inhofe, James M. (R - OK) Isakson, Johnny (R - GA) Johnson, Ron (R - WI) Lankford, James (R - OK) Lee, Mike (R - UT) McCain, John (R - AZ) McConnell, Mitch (R - KY) Moran, Jerry (R - KS) Murkowski, Lisa (R - AK) Paul, Rand (R - KY) Perdue, David (R - GA) Portman, Rob (R - OH) Risch, James E. (R - ID) Roberts, Pat (R - KS) Rounds, Mike (R - SD) Rubio, Marco (R - FL) Sasse, Ben (R - NE) Scott, Tim (R - SC) Sessions, Jeff (R - AL) Shelby, Richard C. (R - AL) Sullivan, Daniel (R - AK) Thune, John (R - SD) Tillis, Thom (R - NC) Toomey, Patrick J. (R - PA) Vitter, David (R - LA) Wicker, Roger F. (R - MS)

Voted for the amendment (yea— human activities contribute to climate change)

Alexander, Lamar (R - TN) Ayotte, Kelly (R - NH) Baldwin, Tammy (D - WI) Bennet, Michael F. (D - CO) Blumenthal, Richard (D - CT) Booker, Cory A. (D - NJ) Boxer, Barbara (D - CA) Brown, Sherrod (D - OH) Cantwell, Maria (D - WA) Cardin, Benjamin L. (D - MD) Carper, Thomas R. (D - DE) Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D - PA) Collins, Susan M. (R - ME) Coons, Christopher A. (D - DE) Donnelly, Joe (D - IN) Durbin, Richard J. (D - IL) Feinstein, Dianne (D - CA) Franken, Al (D - MN) Gillibrand, Kirsten E. (D - NY) Graham, Lindsey (R - SC) Heinrich, Martin (D - NM) Heitkamp, Heidi (D - ND) Hirono, Mazie K. (D - HI) Kaine, Tim (D - VA) King, Angus S., Jr. (I - ME) Kirk, Mark (R - IL) Klobuchar, Amy (D - MN) Leahy, Patrick J. (D - VT) Manchin, Joe, III (D - WV) Markey, Edward J. (D - MA) McCaskill, Claire (D - MO) Menendez, Robert (D - NJ) Merkley, Jeff (D - OR) Mikulski, Barbara A. (D - MD) Murphy, Christopher (D - CT) Murray, Patty (D - WA) Nelson, Bill (D - FL) Peters, Gary (D - MI) Reed, Jack (D - RI) Sanders, Bernard (I - VT) Schatz, Brian (D - HI) Schumer, Charles E. (D - NY) Shaheen, Jeanne (D - NH) Stabenow, Debbie (D - MI) Tester, Jon (D - MT) Udall, Tom (D - NM) Warner, Mark R. (D - VA) Warren, Elizabeth (D - MA) Whitehouse, Sheldon (D - RI) Wyden, Ron (D - OR)

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