#HelpVets VETS BILL DIES IN SENATE, HOW YOUR SENATOR VOTED & With just 41 votes, Republican senators block veterans benefits bill 27FEB14

SENATE repiglicans and tea-baggers put the interest of the pro Israel lobby and US military-industrial complex profit margins ahead of American veterans. They insisted on attaching an amendment to this bill that would have imposed new sanctions on Iran and pushed us closer to war with Iran. They insisted on an amendment that would have increased the probability of more American military deaths, more wounded, more disabled military service personnel, and when they didn't get their way filibustered and killed legislation that would have provided more health care, more education and more job training for American vets. They should be ashamed, and the American people and vets should remember this vote. Check out how your Senator voted below. From Sen Bernie Sanders I VT, Daily Kos and Roll Call......

Senate Republicans on Thursday derailed legislation to expand health care, education and job-training benefits for the nation’s 22 million veterans. “I have a hard time understanding how anyone could vote for tax breaks for billionaires, for millionaires, for large corporations and then say we don't have the resources to protect our veterans,” Bernie told the Senate before his legislation was sidetracked on a mostly party-line vote. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Bernie’s bill was backed by more than two dozen veterans’ service organizations. “I don’t know how anyone who voted ‘no’ today can look a veteran in the eye and justify that vote,” said American Legion Commander Daniel Dellinger. Bernie isn’t giving up. Just three more Republican votes are needed to pass the bill. CNN's Chris Cuomo called what happened "outrageous."

Watch CNN's Chris Cuomo explain the vote

http://youtu.be/NTaLcCny1K0 

Thu Feb 27, 2014 at 01:15 PM PST

With just 41 votes, Republican senators block veterans benefits bill

by Jed Lewison

AP reports on the GOP's successful filibuster of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' veterans benefits bill:

Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic bill that would enrich health, education and job-training programs for the nation's 22 million veterans.

And why did Republicans—who "won" the vote because "only" 56 senators voted in favor of moving forward with the bill—decide to block it?

Republicans complained that the bill was too expensive. And they were upset that Majority Leader Harry Reid prevented a vote on a GOP amendment cutting the bill and adding sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.

Ah yes, we mustn't be too generous when it comes to the people we ask to defend our country with their lives. Especially not when we're not even able to have a vote on an unrelated piece of legislation, even if that unrelated piece of legislation would make it more likely that we'd send even more veterans to their death, as their Iran sanctions bill would do. Lovely Republican Party, eh?
SENATE vote on S1982.
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113^th Congress - 2^nd Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Motion (Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: S.1982 )
Vote Number:	46	Vote Date:	February 27, 2014, 02:26 PM
Required For Majority:	3/5	Vote Result:	Motion Rejected
Measure Number:	S. 1982 (Comprehensive Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act of 2014 )
Measure Title:	A bill to improve the provision of medical services and benefits to veterans, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	56
	NAYs	41
	Not Voting	3

Grouped by Home State Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shelby (R-AL), Nay Alaska: Begich (D-AK), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Not Voting Arizona: Flake (R-AZ), Nay McCain (R-AZ), Nay Arkansas: Boozman (R-AR), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Yea California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Colorado: Bennet (D-CO), Yea Udall (D-CO), Yea Connecticut: Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea Murphy (D-CT), Yea Delaware: Carper (D-DE), Yea Coons (D-DE), Yea Florida: Nelson (D-FL), Not Voting Rubio (R-FL), Nay Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Nay Isakson (R-GA), Nay Hawaii: Hirono (D-HI), Yea Schatz (D-HI), Yea Idaho: Crapo (R-ID), Nay Risch (R-ID), Nay Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Kirk (R-IL), Nay Indiana: Coats (R-IN), Nay Donnelly (D-IN), Yea Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Nay Harkin (D-IA), Yea Kansas: Moran (R-KS), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Nay Kentucky: McConnell (R-KY), Nay Paul (R-KY), Nay Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Nay Maine: Collins (R-ME), Nay King (I-ME), Yea Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Massachusetts: Markey (D-MA), Yea Warren (D-MA), Yea Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Minnesota: Franken (D-MN), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Nay Wicker (R-MS), Not Voting Missouri: Blunt (R-MO), Nay McCaskill (D-MO), Yea Montana: Tester (D-MT), Yea Walsh (D-MT), Yea Nebraska: Fischer (R-NE), Nay Johanns (R-NE), Nay Nevada: Heller (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea New Hampshire: Ayotte (R-NH), Nay Shaheen (D-NH), Yea New Jersey: Booker (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea New Mexico: Heinrich (D-NM), Yea Udall (D-NM), Yea New York: Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Nay Hagan (D-NC), Yea North Dakota: Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea Hoeven (R-ND), Nay Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Yea Portman (R-OH), Nay Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Nay Inhofe (R-OK), Nay Oregon: Merkley (D-OR), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Yea Toomey (R-PA), Nay Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea South Carolina: Graham (R-SC), Nay Scott (R-SC), Nay South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Yea Thune (R-SD), Nay Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Nay Corker (R-TN), Nay Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Nay Cruz (R-TX), Nay Utah: Hatch (R-UT), Nay Lee (R-UT), Nay Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Yea Virginia: Kaine (D-VA), Yea Warner (D-VA), Yea Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea West Virginia: Manchin (D-WV), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Wisconsin: Baldwin (D-WI), Yea Johnson (R-WI), Nay Wyoming: Barrasso (R-WY), Nay Enzi (R-WY), Nay Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State

 
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/27/1280922/-With-just-41-votes-Republican-senators-block-veterans-benefits-bill?detail=email 

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00046