'It doesn't seem Democrats were truly standing up with all of their force against these billion dollar rail companies,' Jake Tapper said on Sunday.
"Now you senator, you voted to add the seven days of paid leave, but after that amendment failed, you still voted for the final deal," Tapper said."How do you explain this to a union worker like Reece? It doesn't seem Democrats were truly standing up with all of their force against these billion dollar rail companies."
for the amendment's failure, noting that only six GOP lawmakers voted in support of it."We couldn't get to 60 votes," he said., a West Virginia Democrat, voted with the majority of Republicans against the amendment. Most legislation requires a three-fifths majority to pass through the currently evenly-split Senate.
Above, CNN anchor Jake Tapper confronts Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, over his support for legislation that blocked rail union workers from striking on Sunday.Pete Buttigieg "The importance of this deal is that the rail shutdown is being avoided. If that were to happen, we would have seen hundreds of thousands of American workers laid off, energy prices shooting up once refineries were unable to continue operating, issues getting chlorine to water treatment plants, auto industry factories shutting down within hours if not days of that happening," Buttigieg responded.
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