Posted on 01/02/2017 6:11:20 PM PST by Innovative
For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled. Business taxes were to be slashed. Planned Parenthood would be stripped of federal funds. The Affordable Care Act was teed up for repeal — dozens of times.
When the 115th Congress begins this week, with Republicans firmly in charge of the House and Senate, much of that legislation will form the basis of the most ambitious conservative policy agenda since the 1920s. And rather than a Democratic president standing in the way, a soon-to-be-inaugurated Donald Trump seems ready to sign much of it into law.
The dynamic reflects just how ready Congress is to push through a conservative makeover of government, and how little Trump’s unpredictable, attention-grabbing style matters to the Republican game plan.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oops. I thought that was a different article on the same topic. Besides, as long as there is 24 hrs. difference between the posts, it should be OK. And it is a good article.
Another article:
Republican Congress Promises to Move Quickly Toward Goals
http://www.wsj.com/articles/republican-congress-promises-to-move-quickly-toward-goals-1483370025
How are the Republicans going to pass anything with McCain and Graham and Snow voting with the Democrats.
That’s a worry...
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