Jamie raskin wiki8/19/2023 “Senator Hagerty regrets to miss any vote, but he made a commitment to his son and his family to be with them on this important day,” read a statement from his office. Bill Hagerty who flew home to Tennessee to attend his son’s high school graduation. The one senator missing the vote was Republican Sen. As the vote was wrapping up, there was a flurry of no votes as senators saw that it would pass even without their support. Republicans had 31 votes against and 17 votes in favor. The breakdown: Four Democrats, plus Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders, voted against the debt deal, while 44 Democrats and Independents Angus King of Maine and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted in favor. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a joint statement saying the “debt ceiling deal does nothing to limit the Senate’s ability to appropriate emergency supplemental funds to ensure our military capabilities are sufficient to deter China, Russia, and our other adversaries.” Much of the action Thursday night was aimed at alleviating heartburn from defense hawks that the debt ceiling deal, struck by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden - and largely without input from Senate leaders. was set to default without this intervention. The chamber cleared the bill late Thursday night, in plenty of time to beat Monday’s deadline when the U.S. STEP BACK FROM THAT LEDGE, MY FRIEND - The threat of defaulting on the nation’s debt is off the table.įollowing the House, the Senate passed the bipartisan debt limit deal overnight after a flurry of votes on doomed amendments. ![]() Majority Leader Chuck Schumer hustled the Senate through 11 amendment votes ahead of final passage of the debt limit deal.
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