Last night was a tough vote. Before us was a bill to avoid a government shutdown and keep the government open through September. The bill contained a lot of good things: increased funding for federal agencies, provisions to help our local ag industry, protections for medical marijuana patients, and it saved healthy school lunches to name just a few. It also contained some bad things the Republicans added at the last minute. I felt the good outweighed the bad and voted for it. The alternative was to allow the government to shut down or to only fund it for a short term until the Republicans take control of the Senate, leaving the Democrats with even less negotiating power. In both of those situations we would have lost all of the good this bill accomplished.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:23:58 +0000