Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined the majority in voting to pass a bill blocking a freight rail strike on Thursday, while Sen. Dan Sullivan voted against the legislation. The bill now heads to the president’s desk.
Ahead of the vote, Sullivan pushed for an amendment to institute a 60-day cooling off period that would delay a strike. His amendment failed 25 to 70.
Sullivan said delaying the strike would “give negotiators more time to get to an agreement and it will not make Congress the entity of last resort in these kind of negotiations, where the knowledge of the issues that are very complicated have not been thoroughly studied and have not received the due diligence that I believe every American, every union member, wants us to have.”
After the vote, she said it was “important that we that we really made sure that there was not a work stoppage - that was key.” She said her vote against granting paid sick leave was “very hard” and that she is “sympathetic to the concerns of workers.”
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