The U.S. Senate’s official Calendar of business for the entire date of 12 February 2024 showed nothing pertaining to the ‘‘Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024.”

On February 12th, the Senate first passed by a 66 to 33 vote a “Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline” in order to ram through $95 billion in added spending for America’s two wars in Ukraine ($60 billion) and Gaza ($14 billion) and to create a war between China versus its Province of Taiwan ($8 billion), plus others such as Yemen etc.

Second, the Senate passed by 66 to 33 an Amendment (“in the nature of a substitute”) to replace an existing H.R.815 bill for U.S. veterans, by this much costlier $95 billion bill for America’s ‘Defense’ contractors and related U.S. international corporations.

Third, the Senate passed by 66 to 33 a “Cloture” on the original H.R.815 bill for veterans, so that that matter can be dealt with at some future time, and under a different number.

Then, fourth, the Senate passed by 70 to 29, “H.R. 815, as Amended; A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes. H.R. 815”

What that actually meant was that they turned the veterans’ bill into the far costlier military-industrial-complex or “MIC” bill, to extend and create more wars for America’s investors to profit from (especially by pumping America’s armaments-manufacturers, who get around 50% of the Pentagon’s total spending), now retitled and rewritten as “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024’’, the bill that America’s members of Congress actually care far more about and are lobbied far more to pass into law, than any other federal expenditure.

Here is how the Senate’s activities for February 12th looked on the Senate’s official

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Roll Call Votes 118th Congress – 2nd Session (2024)

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Roll Call Votes 118th Congress – 2nd Session (2024):

Vote (Tally) Result Question: Description Issue Date

45 (66-33) Agreed to On the Motion: Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline During the Consideration of H.R. 815; A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes. H.R. 815 Feb 12

46 (66-33) Agreed to On the Amendment S.Amdt. 1388: Murray Amdt. No. 1388; In the nature of a substitute. H.R. 815 Feb 12

47 (66-33) Agreed to On the Cloture Motion: Motion to Invoke Cloture Re: H.R. 815; A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes. H.R. 815 Feb 12

48 (70-29) Passed On Passage of the Bill: H.R. 815, as Amended; A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes. H.R. 815

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H.R.815 was originally this “RELIEVE ACT” or “Removing Extraneous Loopholes Insuring Every Veteran Emergency Act” on 8 March 2023, before it became what it is when it passed overwhelmingly in the Senate on 12 February 2024.

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And here is how the Senators voted on that final 70-29 $95 billion handout to America’s military and related mega-corporate investors:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00048.htm

Roll Call Vote 118th Congress – 2nd Session

Vote Summary 

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. 815, as Amended )

Vote Number: 48

Vote Date: February 13, 2024, 05:14 AM

Required For Majority: 1/2

Vote Result: Bill Passed

Measure Number: H.R. 815 (A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes. )

Measure Title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts:

YEAs

70

NAYs

29

Not Voting

1

Grouped By Vote Position 

YEAs — 70

Baldwin (D-WI)

Bennet (D-CO)

Blumenthal (D-CT)

Booker (D-NJ)

Boozman (R-AR)

Brown (D-OH)

Butler (D-CA)

Cantwell (D-WA)

Capito (R-WV)

Cardin (D-MD)

Carper (D-DE)

Casey (D-PA)

Cassidy (R-LA)

Collins (R-ME)

Coons (D-DE)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Cramer (R-ND)

Crapo (R-ID)

Duckworth (D-IL)

Durbin (D-IL)

Ernst (R-IA)

Fetterman (D-PA)

Gillibrand (D-NY)

Grassley (R-IA)

Hassan (D-NH)

Heinrich (D-NM)

Hickenlooper (D-CO)

Hirono (D-HI)

Hoeven (R-ND)

Kaine (D-VA)

Kelly (D-AZ)

Kennedy (R-LA)

King (I-ME)

Klobuchar (D-MN)

Lujan (D-NM)

Manchin (D-WV)

Markey (D-MA)

McConnell (R-KY)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Moran (R-KS)

Murkowski (R-AK)

Murphy (D-CT)

Murray (D-WA)

Ossoff (D-GA)

Padilla (D-CA)

Peters (D-MI)

Reed (D-RI)

Risch (R-ID)

Romney (R-UT)

Rosen (D-NV)

Rounds (R-SD)

Schatz (D-HI)

Schumer (D-NY)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Sinema (I-AZ)

Smith (D-MN)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Sullivan (R-AK)

Tester (D-MT)

Thune (R-SD)

Tillis (R-NC)

Van Hollen (D-MD)

Warner (D-VA)

Warnock (D-GA)

Warren (D-MA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wicker (R-MS)

Wyden (D-OR)

Young (R-IN)

NAYs — 29

Barrasso (R-WY)

Blackburn (R-TN)

Braun (R-IN)

Britt (R-AL)

Budd (R-NC)

Cotton (R-AR)

Cruz (R-TX)

Daines (R-MT)

Fischer (R-NE)

Graham (R-SC)

Hagerty (R-TN)

Hawley (R-MO)

Hyde-Smith (R-MS)

Johnson (R-WI)

Lankford (R-OK)

Lee (R-UT)

Marshall (R-KS)

Merkley (D-OR)

Mullin (R-OK)

Paul (R-KY)

Ricketts (R-NE)

Rubio (R-FL)

Sanders (I-VT)

Schmitt (R-MO)

Scott (R-FL)

Scott (R-SC)

Tuberville (R-AL)

Vance (R-OH)

Welch (D-VT)

Not Voting – 1

Lummis (R-WY)

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