Posted on 12/21/2018 10:48:16 AM PST by Jim Robinson
LIVE on the Senate floor: Senators debate the short-term funding bill passed by the House last night. If the bill fails, it will trigger a government shutdown just before the Christmas holiday.
Close...so who’s going to take the hit in the end....or the glory?
Anyone else watching the chat box on this page?
It is a cultural education in the least...
Just Vote on it.
Let the democraps and Rino’s be recorded and accountable for shutting down the government over criminal border crossers.
If you guys Texit, I hope Oklahoma comes with you.
Before the midterm elections, there were radio ads being played to push support for Kevin Mccarthy, on his ‘build the wall’ bill, paid for by the ‘state tea party’. Except it appears this pac paid for ads all over the country.
Mccarthy’s web site claimed it would ‘fully fund’ the wall by providing $25 billion. But, in the bill, it only allocated $23.4 billion for spending, with only $16.6 billion for wall funding... broken into 5.5 billion for the first year, then the rest over 6 years.
I would not doubt they would do the same thing here.
I will follow perdicent flames before I give up.
No one.
Not before defunding about 80% of it first.
This is what we get for electing people who ignore their oath to follow the Constitution, which says the House shall produce an annual budget. If you have a budget, you have no CRs. It’s congress that didn’t do its job, and people should be reminded of that.
Both sides are to blame as their job is to compromise and get that done.
They all hate the huge debt too. Yet they only continue to make it worse, year after year.
Trump should up the ante and say that if the government shuts down, so will the border with Mexico, at least no traffic north. Let anyone leave that wants to of course.
No way, a few seconds was enough. Set the video to full display to bury the chat.
“...which body will capitulate “
Yeah, and you’d have to bet on the Senate’s RINO, Dems, and media influence to give them the win.
But there are a few different aspects this time: Rs retiring from the House and looking to lobbying jobs won’t want to be on a Trump ‘blacklist’, also some may be fed up with the Senate and want to just say FU.
As another mentioned it’s a bit of a “hot potato” issue: which Body gets the blame/credit for killing the bill.
Any way for the Senate to deal with the bill is debatable- needs cloture.
Of course the media will blame Trump; technically though it will likely be the Senate since there’s no way they can do anything without cloture (I believe)
Lol... Got to read fast, but some of the comments are priceless. Like I say... Educational about the current mind sets. :)
Ya, but there’s money, and more importantly authorization for da fence.
Someone said, Schumer said, Trump wasn’t getting the “wall” today, next week, or even January 3rd, when DemocRats take control of Congress. .
Well the stock market is sure loving this uncertainty!
I wish the “government shutdown” was as big as the Liberal Media make it appear. The federal government should be shutdown permanently. Then have an Article V Convention (a.k.a., Convention of States) to propose a much more curtailed federal government with more checks and balances.
I am not a lawyer, but I have a mind and can read. I have a copy of the US Constitution and refer to it from time to time. In this layman’s eyes the Senate filibuster rule is contrary to the word and spirit of the Constitution. What say ye???
Looks like Pence might not get the chance to cast a tie-breaking vote after all.
Just heard on CSPAN that Georgia Senator Isakson is NOT returning to Washington to vote.
Meanwhile, they reported that Pence, along with Jared Kushner and new Chief of Staff Mulvaney are currently meeting with Schumer in Schumer’s office.
Bad news: CSPAN just reported that Georgia Senator Isakson has said he’s NOT coming back to D.C. to vote.
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