The party needed all of its members in town for the vote in order for it to pass, but Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) was in South Korea for a conference, putting them a vote down. Leadership knew about his trip for weeks ahead of time.
“I don’t think anything went wrong. We just needed more votes,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said. “We weren’t sure how the votes would come down, but we knew there would be absences.”
“It was a win-win either way. If we won the vote, it was a good win like we won the Canada vote,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Thursday.
Wait, you’re saying that, say, lawyer or doctor or engineer requires less work and professionalism than a walmart warehouse or McDonald’s fry cook?
Google unhelpful walrus learn the definition, then come back here and delete your comment. You absolute numpty
This is a pretty lazy, crappy comment. Senators aren’t even paid that much in the scheme of things - typically not more (or much more) than the professions I mentioned.
They might end up making a LOT more, but that’s usually bribes and corruption, which is a pretty different thing.