Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia's U.S. lawmakers voted (October 6th-10th)
Good morning! Here’s how Cascadia’s United States Senators voted on major issues during the legislative week ending October 10th, 2025. The House of Representatives was not in session because Speaker Mike Johnson, R‑Louisiana, has kept the chamber shut down in the hopes of pressuring Senate Democrats to capitulate and vote for Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund many federal public services.
ANOTHER VOTE ON ALTERNATIVE CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS PROPOSAL: The Senate on October 9th rejected a cloture motion to end debate on the motion to consider the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act (S. 2882), sponsored by our own Senator Patty Murray, D‑Washington. The bill would repeal health care-related provisions in H.R. 1 (Trump’s ugly vulture budget) and provide funding for the federal government through October 31st.
Murray called on Republicans to work with Democrats “on a bipartisan deal to reopen the government and address this healthcare crisis” of reduced tax credits for health insurance. An opponent, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R‑South Dakota, said the bill “makes noncitizens eligible for federal healthcare programs, strips away commonsense work requirements for able-bodied adults to be eligible for Medicaid, and repeals the transformative $50 billion rural health fund that Republicans enacted in July to support and bolster rural hospitals.”
The vote was 47 yeas to 50 nays.
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