Romney during the 2019 markup said that the measure probably wouldn’t hurt wealthier legislators like himself and Scott but that not all lawmakers were so well-situated. Added Paul: “I think in the end you’ll get a two-tiered system where the wealthy members will vote however they want to and you’ll put extra pressure on those who are middle-class.”
The Homeland Security panel’s chairman, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, initially opposed adding “no budget, no pay” because he didn’t want to threaten the popular automatic continuing resolution bill’s chances. Proponents of that underlying measure had discussed seeking a vote to add it to the one-week stopgap bill, but they seem to have backed off.
“From my standpoint, I didn’t want to … threaten shutting down the government to get a vote on my Prevent Government Shutdown Act,” Johnson said Friday. “That doesn’t sound like a real logical thing to do so.”
Paul said earlier Friday he would not block passage of the one-week stopgap over his desire to remove language from the defense authorization conference report that would restrict the president’s ability to withdraw or reduce troops overseas.
“Our main point in filibustering the defense authorization bill was to point out that the president should have the prerogative to end a war, not just to start wars,” Paul told reporters Friday. “I think it’s a pretty important principle to discuss, so we did hold things up for a day on that, but we're not going to on the CR,” he said.
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