Posted on 09/22/2016 9:02:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On Tuesday night, the Senate voted to proceed to the continuing resolution, a bill that will allegedly fund the government until Dec. 9.
The only problem is that there isnt actually a bill yet.
There is no text. There is no agreement between Democrats and Republicans on what the bill will fundPlanned Parenthood, the Export-Import Bank, control of the internetall of it remains a mystery.
Yet the Senate voted 89-7 to proceed to this nonexistent bill.
The Senate operates under complex parliamentary rules that require a series of votes in order to proceed to or get onto a bill. The vote Tuesday night was the first in what will be a series of votes on the continuing resolution, or spending bill.
And Senate leadership tried to pitch this as simply a process vote. Sen. Mitch McConnells, R-Ky., communications director tweeted that this vote was just procedural and not a vote on the CR [continuing resolution] or on Zika funding. Various reporters tweeted that this was just a vote on a shell bill, and that the text of the continuing resolution would be crafted at a later date.
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If con is the opposite of pro, then Congress is the opposite of progress.
PING!
They should send the blank to the president who can insert anything he wants then sign it. I know it sounds stupid but this simplifies the process that they have been using.
Or they could get drug tested and turn themselves in to rehab and I don’t mean the nice one at the Hard Rock.
They should send the blank to the president who can insert anything he wants then sign it. I know it sounds stupid but this simplifies the process that they have been using.
Or they could get drug tested and turn themselves in to rehab and I don’t mean the nice one at the Hard Rock.
Compliments of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
What procedural nitwits...and traitors to the Citizens.
John Bolton on Obamas Internet Handover: Within Ten Years, the Internet as We Know It Will End
Too bad — I was hoping for a shutdown. Look what happened after the last one!
We have to vote for it to find out what’s in it! - Pelousy
I’m waiting for someone to appoint a horse to the senate. Nothing could be less apropos.
Can there be a situation where the Senate votes on a bill before it receives it, and then the House deems and passes the bill that it never voted on directly?
-PJ
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