Rand Paul blocks Senate from approving 9/11 victim compensation fund

[George II]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) tried to win the Senate's consent to approve the House-passed bill, which would reauthorize funding until fiscal year 2090. The bill cleared the House in a 402-12 vote last week.

But Paul objected, pointing to the country's growing debt and arguing that any new spending should be offset by cuts to other spending.

"It has long been my feeling that we need to address our massive debt in the country," he said. "And therefore any new spending … should be offset by cutting spending that's less valuable. We need to at the very least have this debate."

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/453519-rand-paul-blocks-senate-vote-on-9-11-victim-compensation-fund

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This man is despicable!

[titaniumsalute]

1. Easy rescind the tax cuts to the 1%. OK done now pass the fucking bill.

[The Wielding Truth]

7. ++++++++Absolutely!Where were his deep feelings for austerity then???

[uptrumps_but]

29. YOU CAN ALWAYS CUT THE MILITARY SPENDING BUDGET....

oh yeah you get some of that mr paul.....

[JDC]

36. Exactly

[DENVERPOPS]

41. It screws

Anything that they can do to a Blue State to screw them for voting for Hillary, they will gleefully do........
Of course this group even screws the people in their very own Red States (but lies to them and tell them the dems did it)....LOL

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

37. Every Republican -- including Rand Paul -- voted for the huge tax cut for the 1% and corporations.

They are such hypocritical assholes.

[hlthe2b]

2. What an a'hole. If anyone wondered why that neighbor went after him, I'd guess we are seeing

evidence. (not that I am defending violence against him, obviously)

[BillyBobBrilliant]

3. Maybe if we get rid

Of the 'for life' paychecks of former (already filthy rich) congress men, and make them all pay for their own health care, we would probably have plenty of money to help the people that actually did the work, you know first responders and veterans.

[Perseus]

35. You have my vote on that one

Many of them get into politics so they can have salary, and healthcare for life. I am a proponent of taking that away, then we will have people running for office because they love their country, and because they want to leave good legacies.

[Oldtimeralso]

57. Also...

Prevent any representative of the people from receiving money or junkets from lobbyists.

[leftieNanner]

52. Let them live on Social Security and Medicare

Like the rest of us!

Fuck You Rand Paul

[Historic NY]

4. Figures it would be an asshole from Ky.

him and McConnell must tag team.

[RKP5637]

5. Get rid of many of the F'en endless benefits in congress and that will free up some cash. Stop

the asshole tRump's endless trips to Florida and golf outings, that will free up some cash. Man these guys really suck!!! Have tRump take his family off the free trip outings.

[Perseus]

39. $120,000,000+ so far on Golf for the creature

That would pay for that bill, or at least part of it.

Plus, isn't the creature a billionaire? I mean, what is $120,000,000.00 for a billionaire? He should be paying for his own Golf.

A bill must be passed that limits three weeks vacation per year, like the rest of the people who work in corporations...

1st year, 1 week vacation
2nd year, 2 weeks vacation
3rd and the rest 3 weeks...Limit 3 weeks vacation.

[RKP5637]

42. I just can't believe sh## like this is allowed. What a twisted F'ed up country we live in now, and

the enormous number of brainwashed stupid people that support this damn fool. Never, did I ever think I would see the US the way it is today. It's what failures and made of, and tRump is an expert in failings.

[TeamPooka]

6. No offense to KY, but you make very bad stupid choices, as states go.

[yaesu]

19. yep, its like they are voting for isis to take over. ny

[RKP5637]

43. I just don't understand KY. I guess just some really stupid/backward people live there. One of my

friends tells me they are totally inbred and have absolutely no idea of what the rest of the world is like. They live in an isolated sea of stupidity. Not everyone is like that, of course, but apparently enough ... how else can one explain it ...

[Corgigal]

8. Wow,

he can't get a fatal painful disease soon enough.

Please Karma, that was evil.

[dhill926]

9. when is this shitstain up for re-election....

we should beat him to a pulp with this...

[oasis]

51. "beat him to a pulp"

[kimbutgar]

60. He just won re election on 2018 unfortunately

But I bet Jon Stewart will make his life miserable going forward.

[LenaBaby61]

10. The deficit's spiraling out of control, the richest 1% got all of that money for tax cuts ....

Yet not many folks are talking about this 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

Unless Dems can somehow tie the tax cuts for the richest 1% and corporations that thuglicans passed, and the spiraling out of control deficits to thuglicans, then I guess no one will be talking about the $$ for infrastructure or for The Victim's Compensation Fund.

[Blue_Tires]

11. I'm old enough to remember Rand having a HUGE fan club here...

where did they all go?

[LW1977]

25. Probably the Jack Off Radicals site

[FoxNewsSucks]

33. That was his father, Ron Paul

the Libertarian. Who did at least have some integrity until he sold out to Willard Rmoney. At the time, I thought it was to get his kid a Cabinet appointment, but of course, Rmoney lost.

Rand Paul jumped on the teabag bandwagon and never looked back.

[Paladin]

12. One thing about Rand Paul: He's consistent.

A consistent asshole. Just like his douchebag dad.

I hope John Stuart tracks him down and whips his miserable ass for this unspeakably vile action.

[MANative]

13. If only my old friend Rene had done more damage

J/k, mostly.

[TwilightZone]

14. Like father, like son.

Rand Paul, paraphrased: "the only good spending is what goes to my district or my pockets."

Just like his father, the king of pork.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. should goto jail when the non prez does.

[3catwoman3]

16. So much for that old Hippocratic Oath, eh, Rand?

More like the Hypocritic Oath.

[EleanorR]

17. How about golf trips?

And extended family outings to visit the queen? Have you asked trump to curb his spending? Or are you just demanding people who risked their lives on 9/11 pay the price for republican excess?

[Traildogbob]

18. Exacly

Where is the outrage at endless golf, endless KKK rallies, world travel and vacations for his spawn, military no limit spending. Look at the debt the criminal regime has already given us. The fucking wall, the $750 per day per child of Christian refugees. John Stewart, he is all yours. Expose his ass to the world. And Neighbor of Paul, if your listening, you will be rewarded well. How many of those trump expenses and policies has he stood against. Maybe give those first responders some of the cash Putin gave Paul on his private trip with an immediate support of trump and Russian interference. Fuck you Paul.

[maddiemom]

45. Bless this man and his family.

He was such a tough, vital looking man in his 'before" photos. Daily exposure to pictures of the overstuffed orange coward gets harder and harder by comparison.

[yaesu]

20. GOP tax cut delivered huge benefits to rich investors and CEOs through a record-setting $1 trillion

in stock buybacks in 2018 – but the GOP says we can't afford to help the victim compensation fund.

[Paladin]

21. "cutting spending that's less valuable"

It's a safe bet that, if fire should break out at Paul's home, he would expect the local fire department to be there immediately and for firefighting personnel to risk their lives in putting out the blaze just as soon as possible. None of this "spending that's less valuable" horseshit from him, either.

[PatSeg]

22. Same old tired GOP line about cuts and spending

But they are the party that does most of the wasteful spending and are only willing to cut funds to the poor and middle class.

The more things change, the more these asshats stay the same.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. KY's Senators are on the same team

Obstructionists

What causes this? Whiskey ties?

[SCVDem]

24. Knock knock

Who's there?

Jon Stewart .

Jon Stewart who?

Jon Stewart who is going to embarrass and shame you on all the media shows, asshole!

You don't fuck with comedians on a mission!

[Blue_Tires]

26. This point nails it -- Hypocrisy for the GOP is dead...

Link to tweet

[LakeArenal]

27. Cut the "less valuable"? WTF?

[ancianita]

28. He's part of the rotating Republican cockblocker squad that blocks money for anyone, even vets.

[LogicFirst]

30. Sen. Paul should feel the same way about Trump's golf expense.

Apparently golf is more important than people.

[beachbum bob]

31. Pure rand Paul bullcrap as usual, god help him if Kentucky needs help

I'll make countless phone calls to my congress people to stop it.

[Leghorn21]

32. Well, he's trending at #1, so everybody knows what he did today

Rand Paul says he blocked the vote to support 9/11
First Responders because it would add to U.S. debt,
but he had no problem playing golf with President
Trump this week at an estimated cost of $1.2 million
for tax payers.

Link to tweet

Also, nobody likes this guy, and I mean, nobody

[no_hypocrisy]

34. Kentucky, you MUST be SO proud!

[Duppers]

46. Indeed. Add McConnell to that equation.

Oh, and...Support Amy’s campaign.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ditchmitch_email_amymcgrath

[zentrum]

38. Pious pig at the trough.

Or he'd restore taxes to the !%.

[maddiemom]

40. That money might be needed for the Space Force.

[GeorgeGist]

44. The Deplorable Party.

[Novice Patriot]

47. You voted for $1trillion in tax cuts for the 1%

Isn’t this the republican playbook? Use the great 9-11 hero’s as props for your elections just as you use the heroic troops that fight endless foreign wars while at the same dime they get paid dirt, kept in the dark about conditions that they work in, then when they face an early death and need our help the most, The GOP doesn’t even acknowledge them. The VA suffers from budget cuts, our hero’s die waiting for care that they should never have to ask for.

[maxsolomon]

48. He voted for the Trump Tax Scam, though

Right?

HE INCREASED THE DEFICIT & DEBT BY CHOICE.

[Raster]

49. Every time Rand Paul opens his mouth, it becomes easier to understand...

....how he could get his ass kicked over shrubbery.

[stillcool]

50. little prick..

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/rand-paul-donald-trump-perfect-russia-stooge
The Senate’s resident wacko bird finds a new political family that shares his curious affinity for Moscow.
By Tina Nguyen
The unlikely, unholy alliance between Rand Paul and Donald Trump, one a libertarian iconoclast, the other the cancerous center of the Republican party, has cemented itself in golf games and frequent phone calls. “They’ll talk on the phone and Trump will go on about Bedminster and golf and whatever else is going on; and Rand will drop in his libertarian ideas,” a source close to Trump recently told Axios. “And Trump will laugh and say, ‘This guy’s crazy’ . . . They won’t even argue. He’ll let him speak his mind.” Their friendship has manifested in a number of ways, including in Paul’s periodic abandonment of his principles to vote however Trump needs him to, and Trump’s apparent willingness to take Paul’s questionable advice. But while Trump’s affinity for Paul may, on some level, have been predictable—after all, they both love to needle Mitch McConnell—their friendship has recently veered in a less likely direction, as Paul comes to Trump’s defense on all matters Russia.
On Monday, weeks after Paul made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor in support of Trump’s Helsinki summit—“The hatred for the president is so intense that partisans would rather risk war than give diplomacy a chance”—the Kentucky senator visited Moscow on a private trip to strengthen relations between Russia and the U.S., a matter he called “in­cred­ibly important,” according to The Washington Post. (The U.S. Embassy in Moscow told the Post that Paul was not on an official diplomatic trip, and was traveling privately with a group.) Paul’s Russian jaunt reportedly included a visit with former Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak, who U.S. intelligence suggests is a spy, and whose undisclosed meetings with Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn led indirectly to Robert Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign.

[RVN VET71]

53. Kinda makes you want to shake hands and have a beer with

his next door neighbor, doesn't it?

[Novice Patriot]

54. Can you imagine the beating his neighbor has planned for him?

This should be a pay-per-view event.....or at the minimum, C-Span

[keithbvadu2]

55. When are you republicans going to do this mythical fiscal responsibility that you preach but refuse

For six of Obama's eight years, the increased debt was republican approved.

For eight of Dubya's eight years the increased debt was republican approved.

When are you republicans going to do this mythical fiscal responsibility that you preach but refuse to practice?

[LonePirate]

56. Why don't Dems pull stunts like this when Repubs try to pass awful legislation?

[bronxiteforever]

58. Kick & recommend for visibility. Rand Paul, a longtime Alex Jones fan

How America's Leading Conspiracy Theorist Helped Launch Rand Paul's Career
Paul Told 9/11 Truth "Founding Father" Alex Jones He Couldn't Win Senate Race Without Him
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/04/02/how-americas-leading-conspiracy-theorist-helped/203016

[jvill]

59. The military...

... has so much money, the president says we can redirect those funds elsewhere.

So let's get to it.

[Buckeyeblue]

61. Let's start cutting military spending

[JohnnyRingo]

62. "...offset by cuts to other spending"

He probably means all that money we waste on Senate pay.

[Eugene]

63. 9/11 victims bill stalls as Sens. Rand Paul, Mike Lee seek conditions for funding

Source: Washington Post

9/11 victims bill stalls as Republican senators seek conditions for funding

By Devlin Barrett July 17 at 7:40 PM

A Republican senator moved Wednesday to stall for the moment legislation providing compensation to 9/11 workers, sparking an emotional appeal on behalf of those sick and dying after responding to Ground Zero.

Although lawmakers for several weeks generally declared broad support for the measure to extend a victims compensation fund, the objections of two conservative senators suggest its Senate passage may stall or require more political muscle to enact.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) spoke out on the Senate floor Wednesday after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) proposed that the bill be approved by unanimous consent. Under Senate rules, an objection from a single senator can block a measure offered via unanimous consent.

Paul said he objected because any program that would last decades “should be offset by cutting spending that’s less valuable. We need, at the very least, to have this debate,” he said, adding that he would offer an amendment on the cost of the bill when it reaches the Senate floor.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also has placed a hold on the legislation, according to advocates.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/two-republican-senators-emerge-as-opponents-to-911-victims-bill/2019/07/17/b6fe830a-a89c-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html

[Rebl2]

64. How about

we cut senators and congressman’s pay to help offset spending. While they are at it cut the presidents pay too. Also get rid of the 1%er’s tax cut. Plain and simple Rand Paul is disgusting.

[Grins]

65. Well, now; don't these guys feel stupid...?

(Note the state.)

[George II]

66. Unbelievable. This morning I was behind an old guy in a beat up pickup truck, spewing smoke....

....and bouncing up and down when he hit any bumps. He looked like he didn't have a pot to piss in.

On the back of the truck was a "TRUMP 2020" bumper sticker!! Where is this guy's head???