Congress passed a Continuing Resolution on Thursday night to fund the federal government through Jan. 19 WITHOUT an amnesty for young-adult illegal aliens despite a months-long push by dozens of Democrats and Republicans to do so, and despite threats by many to shut down the government if it didn't happen.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made one last attempt on Thursday by going before the House Rules Committee and urging it to allow a vote on an amendment that would have added the Dream Act to the spending bill. The Committee voted against her, and the bill managed to pass both Chambers of Congress with support from both Democrats and Republicans.
Republicans needed votes from at least 12 Senate Democrats and/or Independents to pass the CR. They got 18 of the 48.
Of the 18, eight are among 10 Democrats up for re-election in 2018 in states that Trump won. (Only Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin of those states voted No.)
Most of the other Democrats who voted for the CR are members of the Senate Appropriations Committee or represent states with a large number of federal workers and, therefore, didn't want to be held responsible for shutting down the government.
Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against the bill, but they have a history of voting against spending bills. Their votes had nothing to do with DACA.
Senators Johnny Isakson of Georgia and John McCain of Arizona were not present due to illness.
Here's how all Senators voted:
Murkowski (R-AK) YES
Sullivan (R-AK) YES
Shelby (R-AL) YES
Strange (R-AL) YES
Boozman (R-AR) YES
Cotton (R-AR) YES
Flake (R-AZ) YES
Feinstein (D-CA) NO
Harris (D-CA) NO
Bennet (D-CO) NO
Gardner (R-CO) YES
Blumenthal (D-CT) NO
Murphy (D-CT) NO
Carper (D-DE) YES
Coons (D-DE) YES
Nelson (D-FL) YES
Rubio (R-FL) YES
Perdue (R-GA) YES
Hirono (D-HI) NO
Schatz (D-HI) NO
Ernst (R-IA) YES
Grassley (R-IA) YES
Crapo (R-ID) YES
Risch (R-ID) YES
Duckworth (D-IL) NO
Durbin (D-IL) NO
Donnelly (D-IN) YES
Young (R-IN) YES
Moran (R-KS) YES
Roberts (R-KS) YES
McConnell (R-KY) YES
Paul (R-KY) NO
Cassidy (R-LA) YES
Kennedy (R-LA) YES
Markey (D-MA) NO
Warren (D-MA) NO
Cardin (D-MD) NO
Van Hollen (D-MD) NO
Collins (R-ME) YES
King (I-ME) YES
Peters (D-MI) YES
Stabenow (D-MI) YES
Franken (D-MN) NO
Klobuchar (D-MN) NO
Blunt (R-MO) YES
McCaskill (D-MO) YES
Cochran (R-MS) YES
Wicker (R-MS) YES
Daines (R-MT) YES
Tester (D-MT) YES
Burr (R-NC) YES
Tillis (R-NC) YES
Heitkamp (D-ND) YES
Hoeven (R-ND) YES
Fischer (R-NE) YES
Sasse (R-NE) YES
Hassan (D-NH) YES
Shaheen (D-NH) YES
Booker (D-NJ) NO
Menendez (D-NJ) NO
Heinrich (D-NM) YES
Udall (D-NM) YES
Cortez Masto (D-NV) NO
Heller (R-NV) YES
Gillibrand (D-NY) NO
Schumer (D-NY) NO
Brown (D-OH) NO
Portman (R-OH) YES
Inhofe (R-OK) YES
Lankford (R-OK) YES
Merkley (D-OR) NO
Wyden (D-OR) NO
Casey (D-PA) NO
Toomey (R-PA) YES
Reed (D-RI) NO
Whitehouse (D-RI) NO
Graham (R-SC) YES
Scott (R-SC) YES
Rounds (R-SD) YES
Thune (R-SD) YES
Alexander (R-TN) YES
Corker (R-TN) YES
Cornyn (R-TX) YES
Cruz (R-TX) YES
Hatch (R-UT) YES
Lee (R-UT) NO
Kaine (D-VA) YES
Warner (D-VA) YES
Leahy (D-VT) YES
Sanders (I-VT) NO
Cantwell (D-WA) NO
Murray (D-WA) NO
Baldwin (D-WI) NO
Johnson (R-WI) YES
Capito (R-WV) YES
Manchin (D-WV) YES
Barrasso (R-WY) YES
Enzi (R-WY) YES
CHRIS CHMIELENSKI is the Director of Content & Activism for NumbersUSA
