Posted on 10/20/2014 5:01:18 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) wants to get all must-pass legislation completed in the lame-duck session so Senate Republicans will have a clean slate at the start of 2015 if they control the upper chamber.
Senate GOP aides say that’s the message from the leader, who could face opposition from conservative lawmakers who want to block any non-emergency measures in the window between Election Day and the start of the new Congress in January.
“We keep hearing from the leadership we’re going to clear the decks in the lame duck,” said a senior GOP aide. Under this scenario, the Senate Republican leadership would prefer to pass an omnibus spending bill or a year-long stopgap funding measure that would keep the federal government operating until the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
It could also have implications for a package extending a variety of expired tax provisions. Some House Republicans would like to delay action on the so-called tax extenders package to 2015 in the hope that a Congress under unified GOP control could make some of the fixes permanent.
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Reid has set an ambitious agenda for the post-election session.
He said last month that he wants to pass an omnibus spending package, the defense authorization bill, a package of tax extenders and The Marketplace Fairness Act, a measure that allows states to collect taxes from online retailers.
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Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), two Tea-Party favorites, say they will object to moving quickly on any legislation they deem “non-emergency.”
“If you do call a lame-duck session, we the undersigned will object to any unanimous consent request to in any way advance any non-emergency, substantial, and controversial legislation, nominations, or treaties,” they warned in a letter to Reid last month.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Earlier this year they passed a funding resolution that would take them to September, then in September they passed another that would take them to December, now in December they want to pass one that will take them to next September.
So no budget, no department, no agency, can ever be cut or streamlined. Then they play the game all over again.
In other words, AMNESTY.
my mother always warned me about “Counting my Chickens” before they hatch. I cannot help but wonder if, Mr McConnell’s mother did the same for him.
As long as the GOP wins the Senate, I do not care if Mitch McConnell loses his race.
I suspect the Rino’s have a huge debt to pay, with a due date before January, they got their money and must deliver (clean slate) or be exposed.
Just speculation based on nothing other than observation of their previous and current performance.
The main goal of the Republican Establishment is to maneuver events so they won’t be held accountable.
That’s been their default position since they ousted Newt.
Another preemptive surrender from the Surrender Party? Shocking. Just more proof that GOP “leadership” has no intention of ever being an engaged opposition party to the Obama agenda.
Moreover, a Republican Senate victory will prove to the big goverment loving RINOcrats that they don't need the conservative base, on whom they have declared outright WAR, so you can forget about them becoming more conservative anytime soon -- not that we have any more time to wait.
You think it's crazy to say that Republicans intend to pass the Democrat agenda? Consider that:
The Republican leadership is lowering expectations about what they'll do if they take the Senate in 2014.
John McCain is already promising to restore the filibuster and promising to expedite approval of Obama's nominees “I will work very hard to go back to 60 votes,” said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who boldly predicts a Republican Senate would process Obama’s nominees “more rapidly than [Democrats] do today.”
And as for the House: John Boehner: ‘Very Few’ Republicans Will Oppose Me
Oh, and best of all, now Republicans are promising that a Senate takeover will increase the odds of passing immigration reform. Republicans: Immigration reform is more likely to happen if we take the Senate
Well at least the Republicans will repeal Obamacare. Oh wait, they won't.
The only SLIM chance we have to save our country at this point is to demonstrate beyond a doubt that the GOPs "moderate" agenda is doomed to fail at the polls.
Only then will we have a chance of having a true conservative Presidential nominee in 2016, and the utter collapse of Democrat credibility after two more years of their control of the Senate.
It is terrible to consider two more years of Democrat Senate Control, but no less terrible to consider the result of GOPe control.
A clean slate for the GOP in the Senate would be for McConnell to go bye bye and a new leader with spine and guts chosen like Ted Cruz.
This is exactly why I was OK with it when it looked like McCockle might lose.
He has the same agenda as Obola, it's just that he wants some of the spoils to go into his pocket instead of Democrat pockets once in awhile.
As long as the GOP wins the Senate, I do not care if Mitch McConnell loses his race.
Does Senate control really matter at this point? The beltway GOP simply have no interest in being an opposition party.
Mitch is already mapping out his tip toe to 2016 strategy. Plan seems to be to give away the store in the lame duck and purposely limit GOP power for the next Congress.
This is all about McConnell maneuvering to limit genuine conservative opposition to the kenyan.
Jeez, one of the first articles I read at the beginning of a new week MAKES ME WANT TO BARF. I guess McConnell must be satisfied where he stands in the polls since he feels safe enough to say he wants to enable Reid and the progressive ‘RATS to get what they want i the lame duck session.
McConnell is clearly ALMOST as slimy a creature as Reid is.
McConnell and Cornyn = Harry Reid brown nosers.
“In other words, AMNESTY.”
Not happening...the House will not let, especially if Boener wants to keep his title (and maybe his job, and maybe more...).
Don't they need an agenda to derail in the first place?
All I’d be hopeful with him is growing a pair of cojones and doing everything he can do to UNDO whatever Obama has done.
You have analyzed the situation perfectly.
>>If you do call a lame-duck session, we the undersigned will object to any unanimous consent request<<
There should be NO unanimous consent for anything. If Mike Castle had taken my idea of withholding unanimous consent from the DeathCare bill, they’d STILL be reading it. They’d have to read it real slow for the criminals, perverts and sleeping members. Oh, forgot the crying member.
1. Get rid of McConnell.
2. Reinstate filibusters of Obama appointments so that any 40 Senators can block them.
3. Eliminate filibusters of legislation or require Democrats to use Mr. Smith Goes to Washington style talk till you drop filibusters. Playback is a bitch.
4. Immediately start passing conservative legislation through the House and Senate and make Obama spend the last two years of his term vetoing everything.
This would start earning the Republicans some respect back.
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