How do members of Congress differ from the beef our nation imports? All bones have been removed from most beef, but congressional representatives have only lost their spines.

Until this past week that joke held true.

But last week on Tuesday, five GOP senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — bravely split from their party, voting for a winning bill to overturn 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil.

Paul and Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine co-sponsored the bill. Minnesota senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith both voted for it. Klobuchar, long a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry committee, stood prominently at Kaine’s side in announcing the vote.

The next day, Wedn

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