it was a no brainer, just like Russia sanctions.
my way or the highway, that’s real poison.

"The 2016 Sanders vote was against an omnibus bill that included what critics say was a “poison pill” amendment that was bad for jobs and the environment. Sanders, however, did support funding for Flint in an earlier bill in March (S 2848), the campaign said. "
I am not saying I believe the article, Sanders or his campaign but nor am I claiming they are lying either rather I am simply pointing out what's in the article.

Should be a matter of record so where.

Here's the list of how people voted, also linked from that same article:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=2&vote=00161

Sanders' "nay" was joined by Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Harry Reid, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Chuck Schumer, and many others, so I think it's pretty clear this was not a simple case of "hey, let's screw the residents of Flint."

If you want to see what was covered in the bill, it's at

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2028

It doesn't matter if the legislation will help people being affected by poisoned water. Perhaps there was something in the bill that didn't meet the amorphous purity standard that Bernie has for his votes.

"The 2016 Sanders vote was against an omnibus bill that included what critics say was a “poison pill” amendment that was bad for jobs and the environment. Sanders, however, did support funding for Flint in an earlier bill in March (S 2848), the campaign said. "

This is why purity stuff is bad. Sometimes you have to accept poison to get help for people who are getting sick.

Understood why he voted no.

some things that will cause someone to oppose almost any bill really.
As for Sanders vote I honestly have no opinion as I simply do not know enough based on the article to tell if he did the right or wrong thing.

Welcome to the giveaway government.

“You take a beautiful bill like WRDA ... and then you put a pile of dirt on top of it, which I call the McCarthy rider, and then you stick a little Maraschino cherry on top, which is Flint and a couple of other good things,” Boxer said on the floor. “And then you say, OK, eat the dirt.”

Senators from Washington state and Oregon also opposed the amendment, which in part would boost water deliveries to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. They said it would cost fishery jobs and ease environmental restrictions.

“Our colleagues over here were frustrated that the other side would never live up to a Flint agreement,” said Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington.

“And the consequence is they’re cynical enough to put Flint in this bill as a way to get votes for something they know they should not be bringing to the floor of the United States Senate.”

He opposed one version of it that had onerous amendments attached to it.

This OP is just more divisive BS trying to split up our party and make us hate each other.

Especially bills that he knows will be passed without needing him. A real profile in courage thing.

It would have made the roads less safe by requiring truckers to get less sleep.

Nays

Booker (D-NJ)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Durbin (D-IL)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hirono (D-HI)
Lankford (R-OK)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Reid (D-NV)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sasse (R-NE)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Wyden (D-OR)

It must have been quite a bill to have so many against it.

Of course.

we will see this same issue on post after post......for the next 48 hours

keeping count...

This tit-for-tat silliness should stop.

In 1998 Sanders voted in favor of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which said: "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."

Later that same year, Sanders also backed a resolution that stated: "Congress reaffirms that it should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."

Sanders also voted for the 2001 Authorization Unilateral Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), which pretty much allowed Bush to wage war wherever he wanted.

Hillary Clinton was the first candidate to go there. She went in early February and Bernie went in late February.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/bernie-sanders-flint-michigan-water/index.html

Seems like yesterday doesn't it!

have been in consistent contact. As far as I know, Clinton is the only presidential candidate -- Republican or Democrat -- who has reached out." -- Mayor Weaver's communication director. She gets things done, doesn't just talk about them.