Plenty of lousy votes were taken during the summer’s Congressional sessions, when President Trump’s omnibus “Big Beautiful Bill” eventually passed after numerous senators and House members obtained their various pounds of flesh from it.

Trump gave concessions to senators from Alaska, Wyoming and many other states to win continued tax cuts for billionaires plus massive slashes in Medicaid and funds for rural hospitals. Even Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson made an inexplicable vote: With 40% of his Louisiana district’s residents on some form of Medicaid, he pushed hard for cuts in the program. Politicians have rarely made more suicidal-seeming efforts.

In this mishmash of mistaken policy and misunderstanding, though, was one extremely sane vote: The U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to kill a p

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