Protesters in front of Schumer’s office in Manhattan

The cloture vote on BAAJA passed the Senate easily yesterday with bipartisan support. Here are the Democrats who voted for it:

Interesting that Hickenlooper voted for it and Bennet didn’t. Note that Ossof is clearly a “moderate” and Schatz wants to be Majority Leader, but I don’t trust him. Andy Kim -tsk, tsk.

This isn’t a full list of everyone who’s supporting Schumer for Majority Leader, but it’s probably his base minus Klobuchar and Peters, who won’t be in the next Senate. So that’s 20 sure votes. I’ll bet he gets the rest. For example, Blumenthal seemed to waver yesterday but he’s back in line. Still worth keeping up the pressure, though.

As was discussed in the comments, BAAJA wasn’t a no-brainer “no” vote on the policy merits. Politically, I’d argue, it should have been an easy decision. There’s no need to give Trump any more power, there’s no need to give anything to data center proponents, and it was probably likely that the bill could have been re-negotiated next session. The fact that it’s getting pushed through in a lame duck session says a lot in itself, and this is not the first thing that should have been passed after last week’s historic election.

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V. in Brooklyn35 minutes ago

Schumer is my senator, and I'll be outside his house tonight with a large group of pissed-off Brooklynites. (N.b., the photo is outside his office on 3rd Ave.)

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mister mixAuthor25 minutes ago

Thanks, I updated the caption, and thanks for reading.

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Butch Fries47 minutes ago

Some real disappointments here. Slotkin is my senator, and I can never get myself to be better than ambivalent about her.

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mister mixAuthor28 minutes ago

Slotkin opposes Schumer because she wants to run for Majority Leader herself. I don't think a Senator who's been in office for 2 years is a good candidate for Leader.

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TXG1112 1 hour ago

I’m surprised that Kim was a yes and Booker was no, I would have figured they would have been opposite. Having said that, Kim is generally better than Booker on the issues and Booker may have felt like he needed to shore up his left flank.

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r po40 minutes ago

Yeah, that's interesting, and Booker is someone I watch for his penchant of leaning in toward donor "sensitivities".