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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Democrats dig in as shutdown approaches
Doing outreach already!And we'll go to the mats for you! Too bad you didn't trust us.
Source: The Hill, by Jordain Carney
"We're going to win this fight, we cannot predict the path, but we're going to win this fight because we're right," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said.
Schumer, as well as Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va), Bob Casey (Pa.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Mark Warner (Va.), held a press conference with coal miners as they sought to ramp up the pressure on Republicans to strike a deal.
Democrats are holding up the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government as they push to include a one-year extension of healthcare for thousands of miners and their families. The spending measure now includes a four-month extension.
More at: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/309573-senate-democrats-dig-in-as-shutdown-approaches
Kingofalldems
(38,489 posts)But it's the right thing to do.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)is never wrong.
TwilightZone
(25,493 posts)As I noted in another thread, one of the basic differences between Ds and Rs is that Ds still generally look out for the people who didn't vote for them.
ffr
(22,672 posts)If those red miners are anything like the rednecks here, they want nothing less than every Dem swinging from a tree branch or in a gun site. I'm not making that up. True, their a mistaken mob driven by RW TV & radio, but after about the tenth time being bitten by these schmucks, I'd just as soon let them reap what they've sown. Vote republican. You get what you deserve.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)I suppose?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)I hope that the miners notice who's fighting for their asses. And especially who's fighting against them!
Blue Shoes
(220 posts)Most people are short sighted. Dems may save their health care and give them more freedoms, but the promise of $100 in tax breaks(That give billionaires a $100m break) will make them vote Republican again.
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)They're suicidal and want the food taken out of their children's mouths. Or at least, they're acting that way.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)And at midnight Friday night, we have a government shutdown - over funding benefits for miners for a year, not four months.
That's a fight I'd like to see.
ffr
(22,672 posts)Fcuk 'em. Let the Republican agenda steamroll the miners. Let the Reps own it, then turn it into a 30-sec hit piece. Maybe they'll listen to that.
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)That is the only way those so called Retirees will know about these folks standing up for them. Otherwise,for get about it.
Cha
(297,774 posts)The Senate kicks back in tomorrow at 10/9c, streaming on CSPAN: https://www.c-span.org/networks/
Or here: http://www.senate.gov/floor/index.htm
Let's put something nice on President Obama's desk for Christmas!
Cha
(297,774 posts)Thank you for all you do around here for our Democracy, dawg.