Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, Arizona, has a nod to her late predecessor, John McCain, with a flashy vote in the Senate.
The video recorded in the Senate shows how the newly elected Cinema is taking the step to reject a proposal by Senator Bernie Sanders to include a minimum wage increase of $ 15 in the Senate’s $ 1.9 billion coronavirus relief package .
Cinema was added by seven other Senate Democrats as well as all Republicans.
McCain famously voted no on a Senate plan to repeal Obamacare in 2018 with a thumbs down that eventually lowered the effort.
Although she supports the wage increase, Sinema said she would support the Senate MP’s ruling, which stipulated that the minimum wage could not be included as part of the reconciliation process, a Senate protocol that coronavirus relief bill with 51 passed. votes as opposed to the usual 60 needed to ignore a filibuster.
“Senators from both parties have shown support for raising the federal minimum wage and the Senate must hold an open debate and amendment process on raising the minimum wage, separate from the COVID-focused reconciliation bill,” Cinema said in a statement explaining her voice.
The sentiment did not go down well with many in her own party, and the Progressive people became especially sad. Sanders took the floor to urge his colleagues to disregard the parliamentarian’s ruling and dismiss him as an unelected Senate employee.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York was even duller.
‘Imagine having to go home the ganas and ask the minimum wage workers to support you after returning to your own documented attitude about their greatest chance of a wage increase during their longest drought of wage increases since its inception of the law to help destroy. Sin forgüenza, ”she said said in a tweet.