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Rand Paul vows to drag out Senate effort to pass foreign aid package (edition.cnn.com)

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The Senate is working to pass a $95.3 billion foreign aid bill with assistance for Ukraine and Israel, but it may be days until a final vote as GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is using arcane and complex chamber rules to slow down the process into the weekend.

The chamber cleared a critical 60-vote threshold to advance the bill on Thursday, and took another procedural vote Friday night. But without an agreement from all 100 senators to speed up the process and swiftly pass the legislation, the Senate is expected to work through the weekend with a final vote next week.

“I think we should stay here as long as it takes,” Paul told CNN’s Manu Raju on Thursday. “If it takes a week or a month, I’ll force them to stay here to discuss why they think the border of Ukraine is more important than the US border.”

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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 130 points 4 months ago

Rand Paul, as in, went to Moscow to hand-deliver a letter from Trump to Putin Rand Paul.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Got a source for that? Not that I doubt it but I hadn’t heard about that one. If true, that’s absolutely fucked.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 88 points 4 months ago

Rand Paul is the source:

"I was honoured to deliver a letter from President Trump to President Vladimir Putin’s administration. The letter emphasized the importance of further engagement in various areas including countering terrorism, enhancing legislative dialogue and resuming cultural exchanges," Paul wrote in a Twitter post.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1KT1Q8/

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

God damn… thanks for that kind stranger. Much appreciated.

I love how every source familiar with the letter gave a different account of what was in it.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

Nobody mentioned the giant I.O.U. Scrawled on the back in sharpie.

[-] theachievers@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

And he did it on the Fourth of July.

Along with the rest of the republiQan putin-suckers.

On Tuesday afternoon, the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee issued some important findings, concluding that the U.S. intelligence community was correct in its assessment: Russia attacked the U.S. elections in 2016 and did so in the hopes of putting Donald Trump in the White House.

It was right around this time that seven Republican members of Congress -- six senators and one House member -- were in Moscow. Making matters much worse, however, is what the GOP lawmakers had to say while they were there. The Washington Post reported:

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