Sen. Josh Hawley was among six Republicans who voted for giving rail workers seven extra days of paid sick leave amid a threat of a strike on Thursday.
Fox News congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest on how Congress averted the crisis before Christmas on 'Special Report.'
However, Hawley voted to reject the fuller measure to avert the strike – which could have wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy just before Christmas. Hawley and Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., John Kennedy, R-La., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined almostin voting for the sick time for workers. However, with the threshold for that amendment to pass set at 60 votes, the measure failed ahead of a vote on the underlying bill, which passed overwhelmingly.
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