Dems who voted with GOP on Yemen

Earlier I posted this:

Also known as the five Democrats who are taking Saudi money.


Now:

This was actually the farm bill that ridiculously (but typically) had the Yemen note attached, so I don't think we can say those five actually voted to block the Yemen vote.  This is why this shit is important.  At any rate, the bill passed 203-203.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



Well, that's ONE reason people hate Congress.

UPDATE:

Consider what Ryan and his majority did today. They made it impossible for the United States to swiftly extricate itself from accessorial conduct in a horrible ongoing crime-by-famine, and they did it by sabotaging a bill that helps get food to people in this country.

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This is one of the last acts of Paul Ryan's speakership, and he richly deserves the contempt that will be heaped on him for playing legislative monkey-mischief with starving children. And in a farm bill.

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That's how Paul Ryan will leave Congress, complicit in the death by starvation of children he doesn't even know.

  Charles P Pierce

Not a surprise for Paul Ryan conduct.

There ought to be a law

This is just insane.  And it happens all the time. 

It's not only insane on its face and for getting bills passed or not, you have to search every fucking bill in Congress to find all the rulings on any one subject. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tired of winning

The House leadership put the bill on the floor gambling it would pass despite unanimous Democratic opposition. They negotiated with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus up to the last minutes.

But their gamble failed. The vote was 213 to 198, with 30 Republicans joined 183 Democrats in defeating bill.

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With moderate Republicans maneuvering to force a vote on legislation offering citizenship to some younger immigrants who arrived in the country as children, conservatives revolted. The farm bill became a bargaining chip as they lobbied leadership for a vote on a hard-line immigration bill.

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McCarthy and Scalise will face a share of the blame for the failure, and their fortunes in the race to replace Ryan next year could suffer accordingly.

The farm bill itself became practically a sideshow, despite its importance to agriculture and the significant changes it would institute to food stamp programs.

  WaPo

Also, supporting our nation's great farmers:

China has purchased record amounts of soybeans from Russia in recent months amid trade tensions with the U.S., Bloomberg reported.

The world's biggest soybean importer, China has nearly tripled its imports from Russia, according to Bloomberg. Russian trade data show the country sold 850,000 metric tons of soybeans to China between July 2017 and mid-May this year.

The record sales represent more than twice the 340,000 tons sold during the previous growing period.

The move comes amid China's halt on purchases from the U.S., the world's largest producer of soybeans.

China has cancelled multiple U.S. shipments in recent weeks ahead of tariffs, including a 62,690-ton purchase on April 19, Bloomberg reported earlier this month.

  The Hill

AMEN

Yes, what's happening with the Farm Bill in the House of Representative is a moral disaster. A $9 billion new subsidy that is paid for by cutting two million families off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program? In the middle of an ongoing recession and with eight percent unemployment? Anybody who votes for this and insists on still calling themselves a Christian should be stoned. But, morality aside, which is pretty much the way we're running the economy as a whole these days, this doesn't even make a lick of pragmatic sense. Keep people fed and you keep people employed. The money from the SNAP program doesn't go into a vault in the Caymans; practically all of it goes right back into the economy, where it helps keep people employed in grocery stores and sundry shops.

As I said, the blog is not an economist, but it will hazard a guess that this notion that you can run an economy without demand took hold when we handed the entire financial world over to people who don't actually sell anything except debt, and risk, and other people's money, and their own arrogant genius, and a lot of other intangible things like that. I hear an awful lot from The Business Community about how politicians don't understand or appreciate their true unleavened genius. Is there any economist propounding this balderdash who's ever actually had a job selling anything more substantial than his own bullshit? You can't run a business if nobody can afford to be your customers.

  Charles Pierce

This is a mock government we have now -- a succession of events so fundamentally detached from reality that it's a wonder the people engaging in them don't arrive at the House chambers on the backs of unicorns.

  Charles Pierce