Posted on 11/21/2018 6:30:43 AM PST by reaganaut1
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[T]he GOP-controlled Senate needs to vote out a series of clean bills on issues that working-class Americans care about in order to show a clear contrast with the Democrats. For example, they should send to the House a number of bills that introduce free market approaches to health care such as Medical Savings Accounts and forcing insurance companies to compete across state lines, a policy that would drive rates downward. Let the Dems vote these bills down and they will.
On the immigration issue, the Senate should send to the house a border security bill that authorizes the construction of a few hundred miles of border wall in heavily populated areas and funds more border patrol officers and immigration judges. With thousands of people heading toward the border in what now appears to be an endless number of “caravans,” border security will be a hot issue for the next few years. It would be very short-sighted not to force the House Democrats to vote on such border security issues. Ditto for bills addressing our broken asylum system, our visa process, chain migration, and anchor babies.
Even on taxation bills — which must originate in the House — House Republicans should put forth a middle-class tax cut which the Democrats loudly claimed to be in favor of while denouncing Trump’s tax cut last year. Despite being in the minority, House Republicans can still, of course, introduce bills and then let the Democrats kill them. In the past, the Republican minorities have introduced watered down bills in an effort to pick up Democrat support. Those days are gone. We’re at war and congressional Republicans need to start acting like it.
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“GOP Agenda”
Cave to the scummy, adolescent, obnoxious, extra-legal and extra-Constitutional tactics of leftist scu&bags.
IMHO
Agreed. Kavanaugh hearings were masterfully played.
Unfortunately voters in most House races apparently weren’t paying attention.
Five years to get a budget, anything that is approved and a smaller amount can fall under a Department discretionary spending, while large expenditures requre appropriated fuding.
You pop sounds like he was a great guy.
And I am sorry for your loss of your sister.
It was a good deed you did buying clothes for the children and being there at the end.
As for laughing at oneself, there are few things more important.
If you take yourself and many other things too seriously, time just passes and all you did was make yourself upset and sick.
A great pop usually produces a great son and person.
It’s what the left will never get.
-PJ
Surrender?
TY.
Well, if we had a 55+ Senate Majority the Author might be on to something.
At best we have 53 Seats and maybe only 52 with that Dumpster Fire Candidate in MS.
Oh stop, why should that silly thing called the United States Constitution to dictate where all bills should originate from?
Why, that's just an old piece of paper that fat, old, angry white guys care about!
Lol
Nothing will become law unless President Trump wants it to be law.
On to 2020...
5.56mm
This is what the Senate did with Obamacare. They took some veterans affairs bill and converted it to Obamacare, because the bill technically originated in the House.
-PJ
I thought the President could make declare what the law is.
Or, is that only when a dim is prezbro?
Those days are gone. We’re at war and congressional Republicans need to start acting like it
“... needs to...” ?
No. The UniParty RINOpublicans do not need to. It is We The People who need them to.
They will not.
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