Burn pits bill passed the Senate.

[underpants]

Jon Stewart I was completely unaware of this until he made it an issue on his first new show.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/senate-vote-burn-pits/index.html

(CNN)The Senate voted Tuesday night to pass a long-sought bipartisan legislation to expand health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service, sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The final vote was 86-11.

Passage of the bill marks the end of a lengthy fight to get the legislation through Congress, as veterans and their advocates had been demonstrating on Capitol Hill for days. Many veterans were allowed into the Senate gallery to watch the final vote on Tuesday evening.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced after reaching the deal with Republicans who had blocked the bill from advancing last week while they sought to add cost-controlling amendment votes to the package.
"I have some good news, the minority leader and I have come to an agreement to vote on the PACT Act this evening," Schumer said on the Senate floor. "I'm very optimistic that this bill will pass so our veterans across America can breathe a sigh of relief.

[Skittles]

1. at the very least

the entire country saw how repukes were more than willing to sacrifice ill veterans for their own-the-libs crusade - SICKENING

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Thank you, Jon Stewart,

Link to tweet

[underpants]

5. My boy

I think - think - I crossed paths with him at a W&M soccer camp. 1980 or so.

Maybe not but I’ve been a fan of his since before his MTV show.

[CatWoman]

7. i saw a clip of him earlier

Jon came to play!!!

[Goodheart]

13. Give that man a medal!

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The use of MF in the process has a lot to do with the attention this got, hope we learned

something.

[FalloutShelter]

4. That's how it's done, Mr Stewart!

When they (GQP) grab the third rail… make sure they get burned.

[Sympthsical]

6. Good!

It is sorely needed. So many people are gravely ill or dead because of those pits.

Unbelievable the Republicans played games with this.

Actually, no. It's totally believable.

[SWBTATTReg]

11. Yes, and I hope that other Vets, that were involved in the burn pits, such as those at Groom Lake

(the Area 51 location) will get some relief. They had a devil of a time w/ this location being that it was first totally denied as even existing. These word plays and stupid reasons do get rather tedious and ridiculous by republicans.

[democratsruletheday]

26. Yep, and I HOPE to hell the Dems are prepping the ads to run for the mid terms

that HAMMER those bastards on this issue. They've tried to steal, submarine and Corrupt the VA for decades with the underlying premise of privatizing it. How ANY vet can vote for a Repuke is beyond the pale. I hope the Dems beat the drum on this issue every GD DAY until the midterms in early November. If they don't, then shame on them. This is gold and they need to use it. Can you IMAGINE if the Dems made this blunder? Like I said: USE it.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. And why did the republican senators vote this down? Why? This should have never happened w/

what I though, the undying love that republicans have for our military.

Now we really know what they think, that they think playing around and coming up w/ non-existent reasons to not vote this bill in (after it had a clear win lined up), to come up w/ some vague rationale etc. to excuse their down vote. Disgusting. Playing around w/ those who have put their lives in the front lines for us. What other excuse do you need?

Disgusting.

And thanks to Jon Stewart. He's been hot and heavy on Vet. rights, definitely supports the troops as most of us do. Some do not obviously, and we know who they are now.

[FakeNoose]

17. The Repukes were in a snit over the CHIPS bill that passed last week

Manchin made some kind of backhand deal on the CHIPs bill. Meanwhile the Repukes didn't know about Manchin and they agreed to vote for CHIPs. As soon as they heard that Manchin was going to pass the CHIPs bill, they threw a tantrum.

I guess this was the next bill up for a vote, so the Repukes refused to vote for it. Even though they had already approved it last spring. Somehow Jon Stewart got wind of what was happening, and he made it all very embarrassing for the Repukes. Stweart made them look very bad for renegging on the Vets benefits bill.

I think he handled this perfectly. He should be a Senator.

[SWBTATTReg]

19. Yes, I think that this had a play in this matter, repugs were mad at Democrats. Jon is a hero.

[niyad]

23. Can you help me out here? I am trying to think of anything positive, caring,

and life-affirming that the pukes have done for our military. NOT for the MIC, but fir our women and men in uniform.

[SWBTATTReg]

35. Uhhhh, what in the world!?, the burn pit bill being stopped by repugs is a good example. That's why

repugs are being slammed in this article by DU members.

A sampling (there are many many examples, I've only listed a few here):

Besides stopping the burn pit bill (it did after much backlash, finally pass), there was also this celebration by repugs after they stopped the bill. Really pathetic. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was caught on camera on the floor of the Senate fist-bumping his fellow GOP Senators after they successfully blocked legislation to help veterans who are suffering after being exposed to toxic burn pits.

A article posted by The Atlantic claims Trump repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades and called Military Troops Suckers and Losers.

Republicans Block Bills to Help Military Veterans
https://republicansexposed.org/republicans-block-bills-to-help-veterans
Watch the moment Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) tried to introduce a bill guaranteeing military pay and death benefits during the gov’t shutdown — and GOP leader Mitch McConnell blocked it. etc.
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I suspect that the below article is attempts by tRUMP and his thugs to infiltrate the military (remember the military telling tRUMP that they won't support any efforts to subvert the rule of law in earlier years).
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Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military …
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/not...
Jul 14, 2022 · Not One Single Republican Votes for Probe of Neo-Nazis in US Military and Police. Zero House Republicans supported a measure requiring the Pentagon and federal law

The Atlantic’s reports of Trump calling military dead in a cemetery in Europe “suckers and losers.”

...it looks like Trump has treated well-respected and highly visible military professionals poorly and shown them the door, often with accompanying insults. He has also accused senior military of being in bed with defense companies, saying “the top people in the Pentagon probably aren’t [in love with me] because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.” This is deeply insulting to everyone wearing a uniform.

If you want to find something positive or caring, I suggest that you do what I did, is do some research on your own, and find what you want on your own. You don't need someone else to do your work for you.

[niyad]

37. I see that the sarcasm escaped your notice.

[SWBTATTReg]

38. Ah, sorry. You didn't have the sarcasm icon and I did totally miss it. Again, sorry.

[niyad]

39. Not a problem. I never use icons.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Even though they finally voted for it. Jon was right. They ARE motherfuckers.

[CatWoman]

12. and Ted Cruz is the Motherfucker-in-charge

[mobeau69]

10. Who were the 11?

[underpants]

34. From post 29

NAYs ---11
Crapo (R-ID)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Tuberville (R-AL)

[mobeau69]

36. I saw 29 earlier. Thank you.

[FloridaBlues]

14. They got shamed into passing it but so glad it finally passed

[ecstatic]

15. So the rethugs can be shamed into doing the right thing.

This is an important development... How do we get Jon Stewart full time?

[Uncle Joe]

16. They even picked up a couple of votes, it was 84 before, fascinating.

Thanks for the thread underpants.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. Pretty sure Jon Stewart's impassioned speech got enough attention to shame the GOPers.

[Magoo48]

22. The man still has big time clout.

Great news for all of us.

[Wounded Bear]

20. K & R...nt

[niyad]

21. May all those eager to send our people to war, and equally eager to ignore

them if/when they come home, receive everything they deserve.

[Paladin]

24. Thanks, Jon Stewart, for getting people PISSED OFF! (nt)

[Hortensis]

25. Great! McConnell'd gotten bad feedback from blocking it and

couldn't afford to ignore it at this time...!

[dchill]

27. Kudos to EVERYONE involved in getting it passed...

...but most of all, Jon Stewart!

[underpants]

33. Yes. There were a lot of people on this

[EnergizedLib]

28. So, what changed?

It couldn’t possibly be that nobody outside of people in the Senate with an R next to their name possibly thought blocking care for veterans was a good idea, could it? We wouldn’t want another talking point to swing to the Dems, right?

[MerryBlooms]

32. Republicans made fools of themselves. Again.

Never ending Democratic ads for midterms!

Ugh, I loathe and despise the republican party septic tank of humanity.

[James48]

29. The bill that passed today

Was the House version, word for word.
No amendments were adopted. It passed today by a vote of 86-11.

The 11 republicans who still voted against it were:

Senate Vote roll call # 280: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00280.htm


No-

NAYs ---11
Crapo (R-ID)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Romney (R-UT)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Tuberville (R-AL)

[gratuitous]

30. It would be a low down dirty rotten shame if these 11 dipshits were asked about their vote

And by "asked" I mean "hounded relentlessly" until they cry for mercy.

[onecaliberal]

31. Dump and Mitch would not help these Veterans. It took a new President and a new Senate.

We have got to rid the government of people who have to be talked into keeping the promise of healthcare to those who serve in our military. It’s ridiculous.