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Surprises tucked in Senate debt bill (Lautenberg's widow scores $174K & the 'Kentucky Kickback')
The Hill ^
| 10/16/13
| Pete Kasperowicz
Posted on 10/16/2013 4:36:19 PM PDT by Libloather
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Finally, and as expected, it contains language requiring a payment of $174,000 to the widow of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who died in June at age 89.
And how much was he worth when he assumed room temperature?
To: Libloather
Something like $56 million.
What Mike lee is saying on twitter.
It appears that this fight will end the same way #Obamacare began: in a last-minute back-room deal forced on Congress & the American people.
sounds like there are lots of surprises for tomorrow.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:38:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
Politico/Levin claims that Debt Ceiling increases will be automatic unless Congress can override obama’s veto of the Congress’ lack of approval.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:41:38 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Libloather
I....SAID....THIS....WAS....GOING....TO....HAPPEN.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:41:41 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: Libloather
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:42:33 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
To: Libloather
535 people need to be impeached!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:43:02 PM PDT
by
taillightchaser
(I'm going to become a criminal so I can keep my guns.)
To: Libloather
The Senate Conservatives Fund quickly called that language the "Kentucky Kickback," and said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) secured that as the price of his support for the bill.And how much of the Kentucky Kickback will flow directly and indirectly into old McConnell's coffers???
To: Libloather
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:43:47 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Frequently wrong but rarely in doubt....)
To: Libloather
it's more than that close to $1 trillion dollars in this stupid deal
you hold the line , never surrender you fight to the last man.
but boner and the rest surrender when the media creates a fake crisis “default” . there was never any chance of default.
bohner is a craven coward so is anyone that could have stopped this but didn't
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:43:51 PM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
To: Bushbacker1
If it’s in the senate deal, wouldn’t the house have to approve it too? Not that I think Bohner wouldn’t agree!
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:46:48 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Bushbacker1
That needs its own thread
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:48:31 PM PDT
by
barmag25
To: Paladin2
So Congress is voting to give away its power.
They will be voting themselves out of a job — who needs them anymore — there is the Senate and the President. They will now be irrelevant.
To: Libloather
The only solution left is Mark Levin’s solution. Maybe not the only solution but it is the only solution left that will not lead to WAR!
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:49:22 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: Menehune56
Yes the house still has to vote.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:49:33 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Uncle Chip
Mark Levin is talking about this right now.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:49:38 PM PDT
by
sheikdetailfeather
(Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
To: Libloather
I thought Obama wanted a clear bill. What a joke.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:50:05 PM PDT
by
USNA74
To: Uncle Chip
"They will be voting themselves out of a job"
They generally do when they pass 2000 pages of "As the Administrator shall determine" in their Bills. It's the New Skool way of legislation.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:54:46 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Libloather
Never look to the obvious with these people. The sellout happened after the EBT craziness on Saturday. Obama called them to the WH on Friday and told them that they will do as he says. All at once, any House bill vanished and no vote was taken after Friday.
Saturday happened, an EBT taste of what Obama will do. The GOP was probably told that the next time they, and the Tea Party would be blamed for no EBT.
Come Monday morning, GOP meets, deal done to okay Senate sell out. And don’t forget those EBT letters sent to states talking about another EBT threat, that was the clincher. Proof that Obama would actually do it.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:55:54 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Libloather.
The legislation broadly re-opens the government through Jan. 15, and extends the ability of the government to borrow money through Feb. 7. It does so by allowing President Obama to waive the debt ceiling, a move that can be overridden by a resolution of disapproval by Congress that Obama could still veto.
IOW, this all starts again in January or February.
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posted on
10/16/2013 4:56:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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