Posted on 12/27/2020 7:35:03 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during a virtual Sojourner Truth Project event last week that ousting Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) will give them significant power to pass legislation because they can pass bills with a simple majority in the Senate using reconciliation.
Pelosi spoke virtually at the Sojourner Truth Project on December 22 via Zoom. During the event, she discussed how Georgia Senate Democrat candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock’s potential victories would give Democrats significant power to pass legislation in Congress. She compared their Democrats’ potential power to having essentially 60 votes in the Senate.
“One more thing, because you know how I’m about numbers, when we win these two seats, plus Kamala Harris breaking the tie, it’ll be like getting 60 votes because once we have even the simple majority, we can vote for reconciliation, which means that you only need 51 votes to pass certain legislation,” Pelosi said.
The Senate typically needs 60 votes to pass legislation through the chamber; however, some bills in the Senate can pass with a simple majority through budgetary reconciliation. Reconciliation allows Congress to pass bills affecting spending, revenue, or deficit levels.
Republicans used reconciliation to pass the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and they tried to use reconciliation during their failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Democrats could use reconciliation to pass bills at a similar scale the tax cuts bill or the ACA repeal bills.
Pelosi noted that having Ossoff and Warnock win in January would make Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the vice president-elect, the Senate’s tiebreaking vote. This would allow for congressional Democrats to pass leftist legislation through Congress with only a simple majority.
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They wanna try guns, it’s 1775.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio and the rest of the Bush League Republicans are going to give the Democrats a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens which will make the GA Senate races a moot point.
“L Lin Wood now wants GOP not to vote because it will prove there is fraud...or something like that”
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The guy’s an idiot... can’t figure out why anyone listens to him.
It’s not even code.
It’s an order :)
They may be on the verge of stealing one of the most corrupt (and by far important) elections ever.
I knew people were gonna go fruity on us left and right.
THIS WAS A COUP!!!
You SEEM to be a SMART person.
Who gives a #### what happens in GA when THERE WAS A COUP!
That should mean we are armed and ready to take back our country.
But I knew it was gonna mean “gee, I hope the dems let us win one of the GA seats pretty please”...begging....
#### that and #### them.
It’s time to dance or just stay home.
I have been very disturbed about all of this fraud, along with many others, and I am trying to think of a plan that would make me feel better and be practical. I don’t know how practical this is, but here are two thoughts:
1. We must have some patriotic, right=thinking IT people who love America. Could the teams of such people design a electronic system that is HACK PROOF or close to it and then have the States use those machines and nothing else would be legal.
2. Those same IT people could work very hard to make the systems we use now to be made UNHACKABLE and have NO ability to change votes.
We would need dedicated politicians to do these things, but it’s a start.
Can we get a court order to force Georgia election officials in problem areas and major population centers to allow federal law enforcement officials to observe the runoff elections?
Trump’s signing was contingent on
the removal of the pork and asked
for $2000 instead of $600 checks,
using the Impoundment Act of 1974.
It’s going back to congress.
BINGO!! She is instructing the troops “Make sure you do whatever is necessary to steal these two seats.”
Lifelong Democrat donor L Lin Wood, that is.
That woman is evil.
what does she say today?....is she tied up, unable to get to the phone?
OMG!
If the Dems seize the majority in the Senate, then Chuckie Schumer will become Emperor of America.
Senile BiteMe will sign anything Schumer puts in front of him, and Kalamaty Harris will be brought up short and reminded who is in in charge.
Chuckie’s got decades of hatred boiling inside him just itching to be let loose on Americans who voted for Trump.
His initial statement about gun ownership will be proof that civil war is about to break out. Those FReepers who say we’ll just roll over and surrender our guns don’t know what will happen when those who want them become nothing more than angry flesh with eyes to the rest of us.
I’ve been to too many funerals to believe otherwise.
“In reality the rats are a minor, regional party. Unless the cheating is reversed, the federal government will be completely illegitimate and most people know it. I think this could get pretty ugly.”
I agree completely. The Rats are only a regional party.....that was far-sighted and coordinated enough to infiltrate and eventually control Hollywood, the MSM, college campuses, and key politicians.
All with China’s money and direction.
3 sure things if the Ds have ‘super majority’
NO DC STATEHOOD
NO HOMELESS
NO Daily Death Reports from a war zone.
The above are only highlighted when the LIBs know there is a chance of ‘embarrassing’ the Rs
(Like the first knife in the back for ALL Rs and especially PDJT.....when the new R Majority House could finally do something all the GOPe had been running on - DEMOLISH OBAMASCARE... and they all changed their mind with a good # quitting because they didn’t like PDJTs ‘policies’....Real shame is PDJT didn’t take the opportunity to REALLY let the country know what a bunch of spineless wimps were representing them)
He RED LINED THE BILL
A genius move.
Basically he made a bunch of proposed changes (get rid of foreign junk, increase to $2000 per person etc) to the bill and signed that version. If Congress wants to pass the bill they have to accept the changes.
Otherwise, congress has to reject the changes, in which case they will be the ones holding it up. Basically putting the ball back into their court.
I have seen this done in business contracts as a way of psychological pressure, but Trump did this well. The MSM fell for the bait and reported that he “signed” it, making it even more harder for congress to reject it.
Lara Trump shot that down on Watersworld yesterday.
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