Schumer said he will tee up vets health care bill for another vote this week

Sen. Chuck Schumer has to return to the drafting board to get a veteran healthcare invoice handed.
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Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer mentioned Sunday he intends to place a well being care invoice for army veterans uncovered to lethal toxins up for a vote once more this week after 41 Republicans senators blocked it, accusing Democrats of utilizing a “price range gimmick” to cover million of dollars in spending.

“I'll maintain a brand new vote this week, and I'm urging everybody to vote ‘sure.’ This isn't a Washington concern. This can be a native concern. We simply want Washington to assist clear up it,” the New York Democrat instructed reporters at a information convention.

He mentioned “the sicknesses which have reared from burn pits and their miasma of poisons must be added to circumstances that the VA covers — that is the proper factor, the ethical factor and the honorable factor to do.”

Forty-one GOP senators voted in opposition to cloture on the Honoring Our PACT Act final Wednesday, claiming that Democrats had added $400 billion in spending not associated to veterans well being care within the measure. 

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who was slammed by former “Every day Present” host Jon Stewart for voting in opposition to the invoice, on Sunday defended his alternative and accused Democrats of utilizing the “oldest trick in Washington.” ​

“​Folks take a sympathetic group of People – and it may very well be youngsters with an sickness, it may very well be victims of crime, it may very well be veterans who’ve been uncovered to poisonous chemical substances – craft a invoice to deal with their issues, after which sneak in one thing fully unrelated that they know might by no means go by itself and dare Republicans to do something about it,” Toomey mentioned on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

He then claimed that Democrats “unleash their allies within the media and perhaps a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to attempt to get us to simply swallow what shouldn’t be there​.”

Sen. Pat Toomey known as out the invoice, saying Democrats have been making an attempt to go it to additionally put in unrelated spending, too.

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Toomey mentioned he and his Republican colleagues aren't against the “substance” of the PACT Act.

“What I’m making an attempt to do is change a authorities accounting methodology that's designed to permit our Democratic colleagues to go on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree that has nothing to do with veterans and that received’t be within the veterans house,” he mentioned.

Stewart, who lambasted the Republicans final Thursday for voting in opposition to a invoice that handed the Senate 84-14 in June, rejected the notion that Democrats inserted cash into the invoice ​”in the course of the night time,” calling it “bulls–t.”

Stewart on Sunday admitted that there was a “technical concern” that needed to be resolved within the Home.

​”​One sentence. So nothing was added. No gimmick was put in. Nothing was modified. When it got here again to the Senate to, what we thought was only a procedural vote, then they shot it down. However nothing had modified within the invoice from the one which they'd handed 84 to 14 in June​,” he mentioned on NBC Information’ “Meet the Press.”​

He particularly singled out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for saying the Republicans voted in opposition to the PACT Act as a result of the “Democrats performed a budgetary trick” with the $400 billion in spending. 

​”Anyone can say something. You understand, let's imagine Elvis Presley remains to be alive. However in some unspecified time in the future, all of us should dwell in actuality,” Stewart instructed host Chuck Todd.

“And what he's saying is simply factually incorrect. The invoice that Ted Cruz voted sure on had the very same funding provisions because the invoice he voted no on. It’s the very same invoice. None of this makes any sense,” he added.