10 Senate Dems join MAGAs to advance Laken Riley Act
By HatetheSwamp January 17, 2025 1:44 pm Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Senators voted 61-35 to end debate on the bill, with 10 Democrats voting with every Republican; 60 votes were needed.
[Here's the Dem Hall of Fame:]
Democrats who voted “aye” were Sens. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Maggie Hassan (N.H.), Mark Warner (Va.) and Elissa Slotkin (Mich.). Gallego and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who did not vote, were co-sponsors of the legislation.
The legislation would mandate federal detention of immigrants without legal status who are accused of theft, burglary and assaulting a law enforcement officer, among other things.
48 Democrats also voted to pass the bill in the House earlier this month.
A number of Democrats voted for the bill only months after the party was decimated at the ballot box, with border security and immigration playing a key role as Republicans repeatedly panned Democrats for being too soft on those issues.
They're saying on Fox [that was just for you, Indy] that 10 Senate Dems up for reelection in 026 are from states Trump carried in his thumping of that "dithering and diminished" "feckless dementia-ridden" Doddering Old Fool in the 024 election.
Expect a lot of "bipartisan" votes in the near future, bahaha!
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