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I want to note, after they left for the weekend over memorial day weekend. and brought them back and said we have to resolve this before we go over the break. at the end of the day, the bill was a bad deal. it put into place what i feel are really unconscionable compromises. as you mentioned, it will compromise food assistance for over 700,000 americans. it gets the national environmental policy act. i am the ranking member of one of the subcommittees on the natural resources committee. it cuts billions of dollars in funding for our communities, tribal education programs. food programs, and it...

Allowed our president or our country to fail, i knew that i could not in good conscience vote for this bill. >> let me ask you about how it's being framed. during president biden's remarks, he framed this as the debt ceiling bill as a bipartisan budget agreement. he said that it is, quote, essential to the progress we've made over the last few years. do you generally agree with that framing, or do you feel that this is not a republican party that is genuine or good faith negotiators, and therefore to try to sell this as an agreement or compromise, or not everybody got what they wanted, as misl...

Quote, at vote no, and he said, quote, at a time of massive wealth and income inequality, i cannot in good conscience vote for a bill that takes vital nutrition assistance away from women, infants, children, seniors, while refusing to ask billionaires who have never had it so good to pay a penny more in taxes. what do you think of that from senator saunders? look, i don't think the statement is wrong, but i think what we have to deal with in the house, democrats don't control the house of representatives. that ship sailed in november 2022. we don't have the majority. so given a divided governm...

Former Liberal Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt has called on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to give MPs a conscience vote on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Friendly president has opted to side with big business and thwarting of railroad workers right to strike. the september plan resolved their wage issues but left paid sick time for on call workers unaddressed. unpaid sick time in separate bill may resolve these issues for prorchs who have pledged to block the plan unions previously voted down from being signed into law. senator bernie sanders tweeted at a time of record profits. it's unacceptable that rail workers have zero guaranteed sick days. it's my intention to block consideration of the rail legislation until a roll call vote acan he cure...