Brian pointed out in the comments that both Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons voted against the Klobuchar/Sanders Amendment.
Democrats sought to drive a wedge between Senate Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump by pushing multiple amendments to curb the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs. Trump slammed the pharmaceutical industry as “getting away with murder” at his Wednesday press conference and promised the federal government would soon start negotiating with the industry for better prices. An amendment from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to allow the importation of drugs from Canada failed 46-52, but 12 Republicans voted for it.
Some other Democratic senators that voted against this amendment were Booker, Casey, and Warner. I’m interested in why Senator Cory Booker also opted for politics as usual. I expect this pragmatic Democrat shit from Carper and Coons, after all, they are card-carrying members of Clinton’s Democratic Party — so deep in Big Pharma pockets, the drug giant’s nutsack keeps them warm at night. And here I naively thought Booker was from the line of Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. We all have our disappointments.