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Senate votes to END longest government shutdown in US history as rogue Democrats cave and join GOP
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All I want to know right now is, what was their price?
They were all safe, either retiring or elections far off.
This is the kind of shit that will make a 3rd party viable. Call it the progressive party. Democrats certainly aren't.
So much less than you'd expect. I read a report years ago about John Deere lobbyists buying off senators and representatives about the "Right To Repair" bills that were defeated at the time.
The lowest payout was $500. Not $5,000. $500. That was given to something like 4 representatives. The highest payout was to the Senator from New York or Massachusetts for $250,000. The mean payout ended up being $15,000 to a total of something like 44 to 64 representatives and senators.
In this case I would expect the mean payout to be $50,000 because a couple of them took way too little and caved.