Senate passes tax bill, teeing up final House vote

[Egnever]

Last edited Wed Dec 20, 2017, 05:15 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: Politico

The Senate cleared the Republican tax overhaul late Tuesday, but it will have to go back to the House for another vote after a procedural glitch.

The House is set to take up the $1.5 trillion package of tax cuts and tax code revisions again Wednesday morning and send the bill to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it before the week is out. That would give Republicans their first major legislative accomplishment since he took office.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/congress-tax-bill-votes-304908

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51-48 Straight party line vote.

[orleans]

1. ...fuckers! n/t

[BigmanPigman]

2. To quote The Sex Pistols...FUCK this and FUCK that!

Anarchy in the USA?

[TeamPooka]

3. 2018 Democratic Party motto should be DEMOCRATS: WE CAN FIX THIS SH*T!

or maybe just WE CAN FIX THIS!

[orleans]

4. nice motto. both of them :) n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. Change can to WILL. nm

[jzodda]

5. So frustrating

Feels so helpless as these thieves do a victory lap.

We can't do a thing to stop it.

[SunSeeker]

6. We can flip Congress and overturn all of it. This is far from over. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

19. It can be overturned BUT you need a veto-proof majority in Congress to do it. nt

[SunSeeker]

20. 2020 is not that far away.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. As quickly as they are dismantling the country, one would hope to make it that far. nt

[tomp]

22. and you need secure elections to do that. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

23. And I don't see that happening anytime soon, although mass turnouts

would help to guard against close-race election fraud and fixing.

[diva77]

7. the kook bros. must be dancing on cemetery plots that await those who will die prematurely

[Upthevibe]

9. I thought with McCain in AZ and that Senator from the South who's very sick in the

hospital meant they were short.

[diva77]

10. It was 51-48 - Cochran showed up

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/politics/tax-bill-senate-live-vote.html

How Every Senator Voted on the Tax Bill

By JASMINE C. LEE and SARA SIMON DEC. 19, 2017

The Senate voted 51-48 on Wednesday to pass the Republicans’ tax overhaul bill in a party-line vote.
Majority needed to pass Yes No Not voting
Republicans 51 0 1

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my remark was actually referring to the people who will die prematurely due to the gutting of the ACA

[SunSeeker]

13. There are 52 Republicans in the Senate.

McCain didn't vote, so it was 51 GOP votes for the bill.

Doug Jones still neets to gets certified to replace Luther Strange. Luther Strange is still seated as Alabama's Senator and he voted for the bill.

Not sure which sick southerner you are talking about.

[Upthevibe]

14. Cochran. Someone just posted that he showed up...so much for my

phone calls to Flake and Collins...FUCKERS...

[SunSeeker]

16. Cochran, Collins & Flake are beholden to GOP megadonors.

All Republicans are. They don't get money from individuals like Dems do. Rachel was talking tonight about how 7 rich families control the Republican party.

[SFnomad]

8. But her e-mails ..... n/t

[Egnever]

12. That is reaching

Thanks Obama!

Proportions....Wonder if there are but her email videos.....

[LeftishBrit]

11. 51:48? Does that mean that all Republicans voted for and all Democrats against?

If so, I hope the midterms result in a Democratic majority in Congress (well, that seems to be needed anyway!)

Sympathies from one country gone nuts, to another seemingly gone even more nuts!

You may like to know that in the UK, 'trump' means 'fart'.

[Upthevibe]

15. I sure hope we get The House back in 2018....

I'm going to try to help flip as many Republican districts in California as possible. Darrel Issa is very flippable but he voted against (he's in the House) the tax plan because they didn't need his vote and he knows how horrible this will be for his constituents in his district.

[SunSeeker]

17. Issa is panicking. He voted No because his constituents have been picketing his office.

He barely got reelected in 2016.

[SunSeeker]

18. Yes, only Republicans voted for this abomination.

There are 52 Republicans in the Senate. Only one, McCain, didn't vote (he is out due to cancer). Every single one of the remaining Republican miscreants voted Yes, and they only needed 51 votes to pass it.

Trump IS a fart. And a national embarrassment.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. That's what I don't get: why didn't Corker vote "Yes"?

It would have been disingenuous as the Bill still would have passed and he would have financially benefited from it, but he would have voted on behalf of his constituents.

Corker couldn't explain to Wolf Blitzer last evening why he changed his vote and why the $1.5 trillion to the Deficit no longer mattered.

I'm starting to think that maybe Russia has dossiers on all the Republican senators and they were threatened or their families were threatened if they didn't vote as commanded.

[rtracey]

25. ok

OK people, time to move on. yup the right winger shits are trying to destroy our country, well too bad for us democrats. Elections have consequences, and we are now seeing what those consequences are. Tax cuts for the rich, right wingers on the courts, possible cuts to medicare, SS, medicaid, the elimination of the ACA.... yup too bad. I know many say stop beating a dead horse, but interesting how some of this investigation is now shifting to the Green party and Jill Stein, so any Green party voters who took away for the democrats... eat shit. Did you skip the election in 2016? Didn't want a woman president?, felt that Hillary was not going to be a good president? hmmmm how is that working for you? eat shit... Hey Trump supporter that make less then 1 million a year... are you pissed yet that Fuckump has basically fucked you over so many times?, yeah hes making American great...on your backs.. you are the ones who pulled the lever, wrote the black dot, pushed the button, how is that working for you.....

Stop the bitching people, minority party is just the MINORITY... nothing you can do unless filibuster in Senate..... time to stop this electing that same democrats in office that offer NOTHING to our party... Pelosi, Schumer, Gillibrand.... Primary them... get them out, put in new progressives that will help us with our lives, not padding theirs.

Frankin railroaded, no investigation, due process..... eat shit...

[vi5]

27. Did we make them go through reconciliation for this?

Or did they jam it through the same way they did the Gorsuch nomination and just disregard the rules?

[harun]

28. GOP never has to play by the rules.

[vi5]

29. But at the very least...

..our side should be screaming about this and making them in whatever way we can.

We had to hear for 8 years how there's "No possible way!!!" we could go around the filibuster without using reconciliation. And how "It HAS to be deficit neutral!!!". And within 1 year we've now seen that thrown out the window without people on our side screaming from the rooftops on every single news show about this "End run around the process" or whatever else.