Schumer to Tee Up Burn Pits Bill Again This Week

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Sunday he intends to put a health care bill for military veterans exposed to deadly toxins up for a vote again this week after 41 Republicans senators blocked it, the New York Post reports.

Playbook: “Their opposition — ostensibly because they wanted to vote on an amendment offered by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), but difficult to divorce from the broader context of Democrats’ breakthrough on reconciliation talks — has spurred swift and widespread backlash, with veterans and advocates for the bill (the loudest and most famous among them being Jon Stewart) torching the senators in viral condemnations and TV hits.”