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Why did turtleface shoot down the military pay resolution?
Me | 1/21/2018 | GeorgiaDawg32

Posted on 01/21/2018 6:54:48 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32

I've been searching the web trying to find his reasoning and can't locate it anywhere.

Does anyone know?

Was it just to obstruct?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 115th; buildthefence; daca; dreamact; dreamers; maga; mcconnell; schumershutdown
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1 posted on 01/21/2018 6:54:48 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I’m not sure what you are referencing. Any more detail?


2 posted on 01/21/2018 7:00:02 AM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Popular bills and resolutions often have a rider that is unacceptable for any reason. Democrats are famous for this. This is one reason why you find a bridge to nowhere or five hundred thousand dollars to study transsexual spiders getting approved. For every good bill or project there are a dozen stinkers hiding someplace in the small print.


3 posted on 01/21/2018 7:02:07 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: House Atreides

There was a resolution to continue military pay during the shutdown. McConnell killed it. I was wondering why.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4710181/senator-mcconnell-objects-military-pay-protection


4 posted on 01/21/2018 7:03:43 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: Gen.Blather

That’s what I’m thinking but can’t find confirmation.


5 posted on 01/21/2018 7:04:35 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: House Atreides
Yertle the Turtle...


6 posted on 01/21/2018 7:12:05 AM PST by null and void ( Trump's not politically correct, he's just correct.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

i admit, i know nothing. Can’t our president continue to pay the troops? and seriously. Mitch Mc Connel needs to die soon. What an a hole.


7 posted on 01/21/2018 7:14:25 AM PST by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

The best protection they could give military pay is to include Congressional pay under the same conditions

Military doesn’t get paid - Congress doesn’t get paid

Problem probably solved


8 posted on 01/21/2018 7:16:34 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Gen.Blather

From what I can gather, this was a simple straight-forward resolution. Turtle wants to restore all funding for the gov’t before he votes on this individual item.

I could be wrong. Won’t be the first time. I was once wrong back in ‘92.


9 posted on 01/21/2018 7:23:03 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: silverleaf
Military doesn’t get paid - Congress doesn’t get paid.

Problem probably solved.

Probably not. Great idea though.

Since it is Congress that appropriates the funds, this will never happen.

10 posted on 01/21/2018 7:23:12 AM PST by Jess Kitting
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To: ronniesgal
Can’t our president continue to pay the troops?

"No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7

11 posted on 01/21/2018 7:24:47 AM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
I think the demonicrats and the libpublicans are trying to make Trump look bad to unseat him. The republicans are attempting to become as corrupt as the dims.
12 posted on 01/21/2018 7:26:31 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Jess Kitting

I was wondering if Trump had the power to draft the entire US Congress-or at least make them all “federal employees”

Fantasy eh?

Remember during one of the past shut downs when Loretta Sanchez was complaining she wouldn’t be able to afford diapers?


13 posted on 01/21/2018 7:26:57 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

“Turtle wants to restore all funding for the gov’t before he votes on this individual item.”

The party whip is supposed to control strategy. Democrats have an easy time of it, as they seldom go against what they are told to do. (This is one reason why voting for the man over the party is a mistake.) Getting Republicans on board for a single strategy is like herding cats with an air horn. The only time I can remember when they were all on board was the Obamacare vote. Considering some of the RINO’s that was astonishing.


14 posted on 01/21/2018 7:27:06 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Gunslingr3

I wonder if MPC is legally money?


15 posted on 01/21/2018 7:29:30 AM PST by null and void ( Trump's not politically correct, he's just correct.)
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To: silverleaf

Any budget that is delayed or late should suspend Congressional pay. They need to do their jobs and when they don’t they don’t get paid, just like most other Americans. CRs to fund government operations are BS.


16 posted on 01/21/2018 7:29:37 AM PST by drypowder
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To: mountainlion

Read the Pelosi had a big democrat dinner party last night to celebrate

I think they are childishly gloating that Trump was unable to attend his one year celebration at Mar a Lago with big supporters who paid $100K to attend with the Pres

The Democrats are despicable
Really


17 posted on 01/21/2018 7:30:33 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

It was a procedural vote. There’s a Senate rule that says a bill cannot be resubmitted for a vote for a certain period of time after it has been rejected — unless the Senator who sponsored it votes against it. McConnell sponsored the bill, so when it was clear that it couldn’t meet the 60-vote cloture threshold he voted against it just so he could bring it up for another vote at any time.


18 posted on 01/21/2018 7:30:45 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Gen.Blather

Logic tells me that you are probably correct.

The cynic in me tells me that he killed it so the dims would have another anchor around their neck.

However all of this is symbolic and hysteria for the present.

Checks are not written on Sunday. I suspect that they are not written until the last day of the month.

So no one, military or not, has gone without his paycheck as of yet.

Same for any invoice written to the government. All invoices have a due date. Some are due upon receipt, but how many do you think are sent to the government of the US with a due upon receipt due date?

It does not hit the fan until the end of the month.


19 posted on 01/21/2018 7:32:25 AM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: Gunslingr3

What about in the case of a matter of Nation Security as outlined by Trumps human trafficking Executive Order?


20 posted on 01/21/2018 7:33:41 AM PST by thingumbob (Antifa. Carrying on Hitler's legacy one beating at a time.)
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