and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
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Posted on 01/08/2017 9:26:08 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The House on Thursday passed legislation that would allow Congress to overturn in a single vote any regulations finalized in the last days of the Obama administration.
Despite Democratic opposition, the Midnight Rule Relief Act passed largely along party lines, by a 240-179 vote. The bill would amend the Congressional Review Act to allow Congress to overturn many rules all at once by way of a resolution.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) urged his colleagues on the floor Thursday morning to pass the legislation and tell the American people that lawmakers heard them on Election Day loud and clear.
“The American people have said no to the continuance of the Obama administration’s policies,” he said.
“This bill guarantees that Congress can prevent any and all last-minute defiance of the people’s will by midnight regulations that stubbornly seem to entrench the last pieces of the administration's bipartisan agenda.”
House Republicans are doing everything in their power to keep the Obama administration from enacting any new rules in its final days.
Earlier in the week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) warned the federal agencies in a letter not to finalize any pending rules or regulations from now to the inauguration. Those that are, he assured, will be scrutinized and — if appropriate — overturned.
While the bill targets rules finalized in the lame-duck period between Election Day and President-elect Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) argues its reach is much further.
Despite the bill’s colorful title, he said the legislation allows Congress to overturn rules finalized as far back as May.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Trump appears to have put a bit of spine back into the GOP.
hehehe......
His time would be better spent monitoring the tipping of Guam to prevent folks from falling off.
Does that mean he can lose the Department Of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service ?
What kind of “rules”? Congress can’t repeal EOs can they?
I think that career politicians are taking advantage of lame-duck Obama, giving us a dog-and-pony show.
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Note that such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices off of the bench.
Great plan, but we got work to do. We couldn’t even get rid of frickin McCain.
If Arizona has open primaries, Dems can keep nominating McCain. There should be no open primaries.
...the administration's bipartisan agenda? What does this mean.
Trump changed everything. That’s why I’m beating the drum now.
When is the first state primary for `18 middterm elections and which state? Getting scattered info with Google.
Does this mean the releasing of terrorists out to kill Americans from Gitmo can be stopped?
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Glad to hear it, Hank. Thanks for the input.
On with the show, Pubbies.
Tisk tisk tisk...
Iowa and New Hampshire. Primaries evidently in Feb. ’18.
Citizens of those states need to qualify primary candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I (to deliberately limit / cripple the federal government’s powers), along with testing candidates' knowledge of the following clarifications by state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues that they don’t know what to do with if they elect state sovereignty-respecting candidates to support Trump in ’18.
I bet the Senate won’t pass it.
This Congress can’t repeal squat, if history proves anything. They defunded absolutely nothing Obama shoved down our throat, and then you had the R’s playing footsie with so much of it.
Ryan loved Amnesty and Open Borders
Cruz idiot sought to blow holes in the limited number of foreign workers by quintupling those numbers.
Corker has been a pain on most everything and the list goes on.
We can’t get these seditious b@$+@r&s out of office, either.
If there’s some ‘pity party’ thing in the group - - the press will scream about it for months... Might to good to give the list a quick once over...
Where is companion bill in the senate? Means nothing without the senate and a sig(nature)!
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