FAILED: Rand Paul’s amendment to prohibit sale of F-16s and tanks to Egyptian government; ROLL CALL VOTE

Rand Paul’s amendment “To prohibit the sale, lease, transfer, retransfer, or delivery of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks, or certain other defense articles or services to the Government of Egypt” failed in the Senate today by a vote of 79-19.

Just to clarify, the vote was to ‘table’ the amendment which is why there are more YEAs than NAYs.

Here are the 19 Republican Senators that voted with Senator Paul:

Boozman (R-AR)
Coats (R-IN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA) Heller (R-NV)
Lee (R-UT)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL) Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

You can see those that voted the other way at the link above.

Senator Paul spoke to the Five:

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Just to clarify, the vote was to ‘table’ the amendment which is why there are more YEAs than NAYs.

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table, motion to - A senator may move to table any pending question. The motion is not debatable, and agreement to the motion is equivalent to defeating the question tabled. The motion is used to dispose quickly of questions the Senate does not wish to consider further.

This thing Paul was trying to do isn't really the way to stop this from happening. It looks more like a move to bring attention to the issue.

Ted Cruz was just on with Mark, he says that there may be another amendment coming up that may garner more Republican support. (I really like Senator Cruz, glad that Texas saw fit to elect him!)

Quote: Frank Cannon wrote in post #2

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Just to clarify, the vote was to ‘table’ the amendment which is why there are more YEAs than NAYs.

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table, motion to - A senator may move to table any pending question. The motion is not debatable, and agreement to the motion is equivalent to defeating the question tabled. The motion is used to dispose quickly of questions the Senate does not wish to consider further.

This thing Paul was trying to do isn't really the way to stop this from happening. It looks more like a move to bring attention to the issue.

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I think that is his intent. If the American people do not care about the F-16's, why would anyone be surprised about the vote in the Senate?