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Senators ended a 13-hour vote-a-rama after adopting, 52-47, a Republican substitute that stripped out a $400 million rescission to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a popular anti-HIV
(That’s a total of 47 years.)
Fewer than half, 47 percent, have heard some about a government shutdown,” he said on a call hosted by the group House Accountability War Room.
Lee’s amendment then was rejected on a 47-50 vote. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday that the Sinema-Tester amendment extending Title 42 was “set up not to pass.”
Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said if the Lee amendment were attached it would sabotage the omnibus in the House later this week, including $47 billion
Jackson, who received bipartisan support in a 53-47 vote, will also be the first former public defender to sit on the court.
That’s the number of Republicans needed to supplement the 47-member Senate Democratic Caucus to get over the 60-vote hurdle to final passage.
Independents opposed it 17 percent to 47 percent.
But by 6 p.m., supporters mustered only 47 votes of the 60 required to take up the relief package. Plans by Senate GOP leaders for a speedy vote on passage Monday appeared in greater jeopardy.
The argument is that the 47-53 vote Wednesday to reject the second article of impeachment lessened the legislative branch’s power to oversee the executive branch and complicates ongoing litigation
12:47 p.m. | We know where he stands: The notion of getting Bolton’s manuscript before the Senate, which was proposed by Oklahoma Republican Sen.
With the 47-member bloc of the Democratic caucus and the 13 Republicans who pledged their support last year, that threshold is in sight.
Passed 51-47 (R 50-0; D 1-45; I 0-2) on April 18, 2018.
Barr appears to have enough support from Republicans, which have a 53-47 advantage in the chamber, to run the Justice Department.
Rao only needs a majority to win confirmation in the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage.
During more than seven hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr avoided the kind of missteps that might cost him votes of Republicans, who have a 53-47 advantage in the chamber
The votes were: 50-47, rejecting an amendment from Vermont Democrat Patrick J. Leahy to add $250 million for grants to states to strengthen security of their election systems.
The Senate rejected that 52-47, with 60 votes required to advance the measure. Next up was a proposal by Pennsylvania Republican Patrick J.
The McCain-Coons proposal was blocked, 52-47. A fourth proposal by Sen. Patrick J.
1:47 p.m.: World leaders sent their best wishes to President Donald Trump.