Fight over LGBT rights scuttles energy spending bill

CBS 5 AZ ^ | 26 MAY 2016 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

WASHINGTON (AP) - A $37 billion bill to fund the Energy Department and water projects has crashed in the House, scuttled by a fight over LGBT rights.

[fella]

The percentage of perverts sitting in Congress far exceeds the percentage of perverts in the general population.

[BloodScarletMinnesota]

So a fight over something (perverted) the federal has no delegated power to involve itself in has scuttled a spending bill for which the federal has no delegated power? I’ve ... got mixed feelings.

This is a temporary savings at best.
Speaker Ryan is likely holding out that the proposed bill cost a lot more than a mere 37 billion.
That's not even 2 weeks of Federal spending/borrowing.

[Rurudyne]

Well, of course.

You know those sayings to indicate something is all over something else?

What do you think of: “Like Congress on unspent money.”?

[trebb]

An earlier report published in April 2011 by the Williams Institute estimated that 3.8 percent of Americans identified as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender: 1.7 percent as lesbian or gay, 1.8 percent as bisexual, and 0.3 percent as transgender.

Did a quick search and saw this.

[stinkerpot65]

Twit Republicans go along with it.