(WASHINGTON DC) – Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped fellow Republicans on Thursday for objecting to a package of aid and sanctions to respond to the Ukrainian crisis, calling himself “embarrassed” and telling his GOP colleagues: “Don’t call yourself Reagan Republicans.”

The Senate has erupted in a dispute over provisions related to the International Monetary Fund in the Ukraine bill, as conservative Republicans protest that it is an unnecessary component of the package that passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a bipartisan vote this week.
In a fiery floor speech Thursday evening, McCain, who backed the Ukraine bill and has urged for a speedy congressional response, said he hasn’t “been embarrassed this way about members of my own party.”
“I will say to my friends who were objecting to this – and there are a number of them on my side – you can call yourself Republicans; that’s fine because that’s your voter registration,” McCain said. “Don’t call yourself Reagan Republicans. Ronald Reagan would never – would never – let this kind of aggression go unresponded to by the American people.”  (read more)

The House GOP has good reason to not pass the Senate version, it cuts money from the military and uses it to reform the IMF (Dem Sen. Bob Menendez snuck it in) which obviously has no place in a bill to help Ukraine.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Wednesday ruled out taking up the House-passed Ukraine loan guarantee bill, saying it was inadequate in the face of a Senate version that passed out of the Foreign Relations Committee today.
“No, no,” Reid said when asked if the Senate could just take up the House-passed bill, “Because the House bill doesn’t have sanctions in it and doesn’t have the money we need.”
The Senate version includes the loan guarantees for Ukraine already included in the House-passed version, but the Senate bill also includes IMF quota reform, and sanctions for those involved in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
House Republicans believe the Senate should just take up the bill they passed last week, with some charging that cuts to the military that are used to pay for provisions in the Senate bill need to be removed before they can support it.
“Senator Menendez’ bill to fund reforms at the IMF on the backs of our troops is just looney,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., said in a statement, “I will strongly oppose it if it comes to the House.”
But Senator Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., pushed back, saying he would support the bill “because we need to get on with it as a nation.”