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riversedge

(70,242 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:09 AM Mar 2019

GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander to vote against Trump on emergency declaration

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GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander to vote against Trump on emergency declaration

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/434033-gop-sen-lamar-alexander-to-vote-against-trump-on-emergency-declaration
By Jordain Carney - 03/14/19 10:57 AM EDT

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Thursday that he would vote for a resolution blocking President Trump’s emergency declaration.
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Alexander has voiced concerns for weeks about Trump's actions but remained tightlipped as recently as earlier Thursday about how he would vote. He reiterated his concerns during a floor speech shortly before he confirmed to reporters that he would vote for the resolution of disapproval.

"The president's emergency declaration to take an additional $3.6 billion that Congress has appropriated for military hospitals, for basics and for schools … is inconsistent with the United States Constitution that I took an oath to support and defend," Alexander said from the Senate floor.

Alexander is the seventh Republican senator to announce they would vote for the resolution of disapproval, which Trump is pledging to veto.

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GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander to vote against Trump on emergency declaration (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2019 OP

A veto proof majority would be nice malaise Mar 2019 #1

And any that won't vote to block trump's over reach of power, duforsure Mar 2019 #2

malaise

(269,040 posts)

1. A veto proof majority would be nice

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:11 AM

Mar 2019

It would be a very serious message to this fugging incompetent, divisive, criminal con man

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

2. And any that won't vote to block trump's over reach of power,

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 11:20 AM

Mar 2019

Will put a target on their own back for removal from office next election . Republicans I guess didn't learn anything from the Mid Terms. the overwhelming majority are against this , and they are making it much worse for themselves, and they know it. Many more will defect soon to make it a super majority eventually.

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