The
Hill, 5/17/18
Senators
voted 21-76 on taking up Paul's legislation, known as the "penny
plan."
The legislation
would have balanced the budget in five years and cut spending by roughly $13
trillion over 10 years compared to current spending levels.
Paul used
an arcane Senate rule that allowed him to force a vote on his plan because
leadership has not introduced a budget.
Paul
argued on Thursday that Congress had made an "unholy alliance" in
which Republicans agreed to more domestic spending in order to get a boost in
military funding.
"That runs into the hypocrisy
we face today. I've often said that the Republican Party is an empty vessel
unless we imbue it with value," he added.
But
Paul faced fire from both sides.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged senators to vote against the measure
because of its impact on defense spending.
"If
you're a defense hawk, you should be against this approach, because it creates
the one thing we can't afford, which is unpredictability," he said.
Senate Vote on Rand
Paul’s Penny Budget was 21 Yea and 76 Nay. See Vote Lists below:
The 21 Senators who
voted for the Budget cuts are what Rand Paul calls the “true conservatives” in
the Senate. If this vote had passed the Senate, it would have started the
conversation about reducing our unsustainable government spending in
non-critical areas. Democrats and special interests would have gone nuts.
Barrasso (R-WY)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Grassley (R-IA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay
Blunt (R-MO), Nay
Booker (D-NJ), Not Voting
Boozman (R-AR), Nay
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Capito (R-WV), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Casey (D-PA), Nay
Cassidy (R-LA), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Cortez Masto (D-NV), Nay
Cotton (R-AR), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Cruz (R-TX), Yea
Daines (R-MT), Yea
Donnelly (D-IN), Nay
Duckworth (D-IL), Not Voting
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Flake (R-AZ), Yea
Gardner (R-CO), Nay
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Harris (D-CA), Nay
Hassan (D-NH), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Heinrich (D-NM), Nay
Heitkamp (D-ND), Nay
Heller (R-NV), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Nay
Hoeven (R-ND), Nay
Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Jones (D-AL), Nay
Kaine (D-VA), Nay
Kennedy (R-LA), Yea
King (I-ME), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Lee (R-UT), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Nay
Markey (D-MA), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Not Voting
McCaskill (D-MO), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Murphy (D-CT), Nay
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Paul (R-KY), Yea
Perdue (R-GA), Nay
Peters (D-MI), Nay
Portman (R-OH), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Risch (R-ID), Yea
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rounds (R-SD), Nay
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Sasse (R-NE), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Scott (R-SC), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Smith (D-MN), Nay
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tillis (R-NC), Nay
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Van Hollen (D-MD), Nay
Warner (D-VA), Nay
Warren (D-MA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Young (R-IN), Nay
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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