House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democrats and comedian and activist Jon Stewart railed against Senate Republicans who voted against legislation to help veterans suffering from ailments related t…
“America’s heroes, who fought our wars, outside sweating their asses off, with oxygen battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherf***ers sit in the air conditioning walled off from any of it? They don’t have to hear it. They don’t have to see it. They don’t have to understand that these are human beings. Did you get it yet?”Stewart said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lied to veterans by saying “we’ll get it done” and then voting against the bill.
“Senator Toomey is not going to hear that because he won’t sit down with this man because he is a f***ing coward. You hear me?” Stewart said. “None of them will hear it. And none of them will care.” McConnell argued that the legislation as written “could also allow Democrats to effectively spend the same money twice and enable hundreds of billions in new, unrelated spending on the discretionary side of the federal budget.” He pushed for a vote on an amendment from Toomey aimed at reeling in costs from the package.
Gillibrand says she will ask for unanimous consent Thursday if she can get floor time, “and as many times as I need to to get this back on the floor.” “Sen. Rob Portman was Heath’s senator,” Dyer said. “They voted against my family. They voted for all of us to suffer.”
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