
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.


