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Ryan stops vote on bringing back earmarks
The Hill ^
| 11/16/16
| Megan R. Wilson
Posted on 11/16/2016 1:51:09 PM PST by conservativepoet
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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday persuaded GOP lawmakers to postpone a vote on a measure to bring back legislative earmarks.
"Based on the comments by members, it was likely that an earmark amendment would have passed," a GOP source in the room told The Hill. "Ultimately, the speaker stepped in and urged that we not make this decision today.
"We just had a 'drain the swamp' election," Ryan said in a private meeting of the House Republican conference, according to CNN. "Let's not just turn around and bring back earmarks two weeks later."
To: conservativepoet
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:51:47 PM PST
by
Signalman
To: conservativepoet
How danged stupid is the GOPe!?
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:52:55 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(LOCK HER UP!)
To: conservativepoet
“We just had a ‘drain the swamp’ election,” Ryan said
= = =
while clinging to a log in the swirling maelstrom.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:53:01 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(Still shooting, but Calif is making me a felon.)
To: conservativepoet
Amazing what Trump has wrought before even being officially “elected”....
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:53:40 PM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: conservativepoet
Trump should tell them he will veto ANYTHING that has an earmark, or is more than one page.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:54:27 PM PST
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Mr. K
(Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
To: conservativepoet
“We’ll sneak it through as part of something else some night in a midnight vote; but we’d better not do it right now,” is how I picture Ryno saying it to them.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:55:13 PM PST
by
Tucker39
(Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in theolog and politics.)
To: Signalman
Indeed. One brush with political suicide in a year is enough for Mr. Ryan, it seems.
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:56:05 PM PST
by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: conservativepoet
This is my shocked face.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:56:36 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: conservativepoet
Maybe he is growing a brain.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:57:45 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: conservativepoet
Either he’s regained some hearing or this was a setup to improve his image.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:58:09 PM PST
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ArcadeQuarters
("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
To: conservativepoet
This was a limited ‘earmark’ proposal- just for Army Corps projects.
Still, best not.
BTW there’ll be NO weakening of the “Vacate the Speaker” motion.
Even Ryan opposes doing that.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:58:30 PM PST
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mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Signalman
For now. But he’s a snake. It’s in his nature to turn left.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:58:32 PM PST
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max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: conservativepoet
Maybe Ryan is wising up.
Stay tuned.
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:59:10 PM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
To: conservativepoet
The GOPee has yet to hear the message. PRyno will let this through later under the cover of darkness.
Will Trump let him get away with a CR?
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posted on
11/16/2016 1:59:39 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
To: Uncle Miltie
How danged stupid is the GOPe!? Slightly less stupid than they are venal and corrupt... Never lose sight of reality:
"The state or, to make matters more concrete, the government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they cant get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods." ― H.L. Mencken
To: conservativepoet
Ryan gets it. I wanna’ know who wants to bring back earmarks. I want NAMES!
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posted on
11/16/2016 2:02:06 PM PST
by
ColdOne
((poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~WE DID IT DEPLORABLES!EraseThe0bagambiLegacy!)
To: conservativepoet
But Paul Ryan is still for not deporting law breaking illegal immigrants. That flunks him in my book, since I went through the long process of becoming a legal immigrant.
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posted on
11/16/2016 2:03:23 PM PST
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entropy12
(Best Election ever!)
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