Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrat leaders are mounting an effort to block a pro-Israel bill on Tuesday in order to protest the ongoing partial government shutdown, which is now in its third week.
The Senate late Tuesday will hold a procedural vote on a bill that supports Israel by allowing state and local governments to divest from entities that boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel because of its occupation of the West Bank.
The provision is part of legislation numbered “S.1” that was to be the very first bill senators debate in the 116th Congress. In addition to the BDS language, it includes several Middle East security provisions such as new authorities for sanctioning Bashar Assad's regime in Syria and re-authorization of security assistance to Israel.
But Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, will vote Tuesday against moving to debate the BDS bill, even though they co-sponsored the bill when was introduced in 2017.
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Democrats are nothing but obstructionists and will do nothing that benefits Americans.
ReplyDeleteCorruption at the highest levels, hang them for treason!
ReplyDeleteSo Dems won't do their job until they get what they want no matter if it hurts Americans citizens and this country to delay any business even if they agree with it until Trump reopens the Government. Is this the type of people we want to represent American people. Children I say.
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ReplyDeleteCardin & Schumer are birds of a feather. Both lack guts and integrity.
I fully believe for the rest of Trumps term the Dems will fight every bill everything they will vote the opposite way even if they were for it before it is just getting even and nothing but pure hate for an American President, it is deplorable just like they are. Pelosi should never have gotten the position for another term, and Schumer is Satan personified.
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