Posted on 09/04/2016 6:43:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Lawmakers return to Washington this week for an abbreviated election-season session in which they will likely do what they do best: the bare minimum.
All Congress must do this month is keep the government from shutting down on Oct. 1 and, with any luck, finally provide money for the fight against the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Republicans controlling Congress promise they won’t stumble now, but the weeks ahead could prove tricky.
A chief motivation for the September session, especially for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is allowing lawmakers to return to campaigning as soon as possible. Republicans are scrambling to hold onto their Senate edge as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump lags in the polls.
The short-term spending measure is sure to pass. The alternative is that Republicans would get the blame for a government shutdown, as they did in 2013. …
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the bastards have been doing the bare minimum since they were sent there. Their time is running out as the November elections rapidly approach. I expect there will be a little more activity than we have seen in the past few years now that their political careers are on the line. Alas, I have been disappointed before.
You say this like it is a bad thing.
The least they could do is find their backbones and huevos.
“Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.”We are about three quarters of a century behind if we are still pretending that this did not happen to its fullest extent.
— Communist Goal #15
The Internet giveaway needs to be stopped.
This should be job #1.
The standard response to,'what you doing this weekend', was :'A' LAP.
Short for, As Little As Possible.
I am betting on the Republicans taking up the USSC nomination in order to render a possible President Trump impotent.
EXACTLY!! The less they do = more freedoms for you and me. Get the Government the hell out of our lives!
They can have all the Zika money needed. Just shut down Obamacare. Or the EPA. Or the department of education. Or ...
Scary how many of them are accomplished already.
We have one more shot at keeping our country courtesy of Donald Trump.
I thought we were done after Usurpation Day.
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