@safiel in your opinion how does it benefit someone by abstaining to vote?
Typically in the Senate, not voting is due to the Senator being absent from the Capitol, rather than a deliberate non vote.
Ah okay. I thought there may have been some tactical gamesmanship around an archaic rule.
Obviously I was way overthinking it.
Thanks.
In more civilized days, when Senators were still gentlemen, they used to have the “pairs” agreement.
If one Senator had to be absent, a Senator from the other side would announce a “pair off” with that Senator and would himself refrain from voting as a gesture of civility.
Those days are long over.
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Apparently the bill contains over 7,500 earmarks totalling $15 billion.
Certainly if the bill is important (and we are told it is) Congress could take those earmarks out and pass it that way.
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Oh look, '$370 million to fund ‘enhanced border security’ !!! Awesome!!
Oh, wait,
in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Oman.
Now onto our ■■■■ show.
"On its face, the omnibus goes beyond current funding levels with a $240 million cash infusion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and $1 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). It also maintains funding for critical programs like border wall construction and keeps detention space at Trump-era levels. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are no mechanisms in the spending package that will compel the Biden administration to spend the money as intended. In fact, based on President Biden’s first 14 months in office, there is every reason to believe that the money will be diverted to support the administration’s anti-enforcement efforts.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/fair-omnibus-fails-address-border-032600055.html
You can bet it will be status quo, let them all go with admin. Even MSNBC had to admit they talked with people who said they had no contact with BP and just walked their happy asses on with no problem. The border is not closed and whatever “work” KJP keeps babbling on about is as dishonest as the day is long.
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KJP pretty much never tells the truth.
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Rand Paul does not support this disaster, neither do I (not that anyone cares what I think).
“ Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to Twitter on Tuesday to mock the 4,155 page $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that was made public earlier.
Standing behind a cart holding all 4,155 pages of the bill, Paul tweeted “I wonder how long it would take the clerk to read this…”. Sen. Rand Paul mocks massive $1.7 trillion omnibus bill: 'Hazardous Debt' | Fox News
What a stupid way to run a country. Pass out 4100+ page spending bills written by a bunch of JR staffers that nobody can or will read to fund the government for a year.
Apparently there’s a bunch of money for Ukraine…none for southern border enforcement…
Now this joke will pass and we’ll be stuck with it for an entire year…
What the Senate and House if needed should do is stay on DC break this thing down into smaller chunks and if that means sliding pizza under the door for Christmas dinner so be it. This process seems important enough to do right not with haste so our esteemed Senators don’t miss their flight.
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Until term limits for those clowns become the law of the land that won’t happen.
Party on 
Flips middle finger at the Simpson Bowles committee when the debt was a real problem at 12 trillion.
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Actually, Rand Paul supports the Electoral Count Reform Act that is enclosed in the omnibus, though not the omnibus as a whole.
Some day the deficit chickens will come home to roost!
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Nothing would be better. And that nothing would only last a short while. Separate bills for separate spending items, or an up/down line by line vote, and whatever in the bill survives goes to The Big Guy.
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$200 million for Pakistani gender studies hidden in this 1.7 trillion dollar bill?
https://ussanews.com/2022/12/21/thank-you-taxpayer-advocate-dan-bishop-for-opposing-the-omnibus/
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Until it happens they will continue to run the country into the ground for their own selfish purposes.
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Glad to see that both of my senators are amongst the “no” votes. Hope they stay that way.
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1.7 trillion is not a must pass based on a “reform” that is not even necessary. Democrat programs should at least be exchanged for increased spending protecting our border.
The rush is to get Democrat programs passed with no trade off.
And you can definitely vote on an electoral college bill independently of 1.7 trillion.
I think the line from Aliens is applicable to these spending wish lists.
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Have you read it?
cowards.
