Posted on 01/22/2019 3:34:58 PM PST by Mariner
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to a deal that could end the partial government shutdown, which entered its 32nd day Tuesday.
Under the deal, the Senate will vote Thursday on two bills intended to end the shutdown. One bill includes President Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to construct a wall at the southern border, and one would fund the government entities affected by the shutdown through February 8, kicking the fight down the road until then.
“People are saying isn’t there a way out of this mess, isn’t there a way to relieve the burden on the 800,000 federal workers not getting paid, isn’t there a way to get government services open first and debate what we should do for border security later?” Schumer said in announcing the deal. “Well, now there’s a way.”
About 800,000 federal workers are currently missing their paychecks as a result of the shutdown, which has broken the record for the longest in U.S. history.
Earlier Tuesday, Schumer panned the president’s weekend proposal to end the shutdown, which included restrictions on the ability of immigrants to claim asylum.
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Very easily:
Let's say HB1234 "The Waste Taxpayer Money Act" has passed the House and is awaiting action in the Senate.
The Senate can take HB1234 - amend it by gutting it completely and renaming it - pass it, and send it back to the House for consideration and a vote.
This happens pretty often - is legal - and gets around the "All spending bills must originate in the House" issue.
This happens at the state level also.
This is done all the time. It’s a back and forth thing. Both have to agree in the end. It’s just about getting a number assigned.
Then on Feb 9, we go through all this, again.
The upside is that not much gets done by "non-essential" gov't agencies in 2 weeks.
McConnell hasn’t been a team players, and he isn’t going to be a team player.
He took offense to the idea a non-politician could come in and clean things up. He is dead set against allowing Trump to implement corrective measures.
He will do some parts of his job, so folks are fooled, but he is as evil as the Democrats.
Every time you think of patting him on the back, just remember there are many facets of his job, and just because he does 25% of his job well, it doesn’t mean he was an overall plus for us.
Far from it.
He and Ryan passed ONE, that’s it, just ONE large bill in the first two years of Trump’s term in office.
Those two jackasses campaigned on getting the majority so they could “fix things” for most of their careers. Then when they had it, they had no list of things that needed to get done.
It’s impossible to calculate the potential gain and massive losses McConnell and Ryan perpetrated AGAINST Conservatives.
Why would RINOscum McConnell allow a Demonicrat bill without funding for the wall to be presented for a vote?!?
“One bill includes President Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to construct a wall at the southern border...”
If I’m reading this right, then Schumer has agreed not to filibuster a wall bill. That should allow it to squeak through the Senate, which is progress. Optimistically, this is a way for the Senate Dems to yield but save face.
Strip all the language out of a House Bill, and pass the “new” Bill.
Thirteen.
Vote on the 5.7 Billion first. If that fails, veto any other spending bill.
Cop to guy in a standoff;
“Ok, let the hostage go, then I promise we can negotiate about the helicopter you want”.
F’ em all. Leave it shutdown.
A spending bill, unless it’s Obamacare (snort) has to originate in the House.
For example, from 2013...
So unless this bill just moves already appropriated funds around....
I for one am thankful to McConnel for two reasons- Neal Gorsich and Brett Kavanaugh.
Just look at Obamacare.
V-E-T-O
M-A-G-A
How dumb can the GOP be?
BOTH will pass the Senate! Yay!
But only only will then pass the House.
McConnell needs to just say no.
Yes, but if you think about it, that was just Mitch doing his job. While I agree with you on point, what else should he have have done? He doesn’t really deserve kudos for this.
Holding over Gorsich was a bold move, but the Left hardly even whimpered about it. They knew he had them. It was over.
All the approval of judges seems good on the face of it, but Trump has many appointments still outstanding. We could have approved a lot more, even though this was a record.
What happens if God forbid, Trump winds up a one term president? We should have had more judges approved, and there are other categories out there waning too.
“How can a single Federal judge give orders to the President, the military, the Congress, and etc?
The Constitution is no longer in effect. That’s how.”
Exactly... precisely!
Read the constitution, even updated with amendments. Nothing is followed anymore except as a form of sophistry I call “Jeopardy Sophistry”. The uniparty oligarchy in DC does absolutely anything it pleases. However, they carefully form it into the verbiage of the Constitution.
An example is how the “interstate commerce clause” is twisted to include growing your own crops, for your own use and sale within your state.
They can twist any policy they please into being “constitutional”.
Involuntary servitude was outlawed by the 13th amendment except as punishment for a crime. Woodrow Wilson started the draft for WWI by saying it is not involuntary servitude because the entire nation had “volunteered” because the peoples representatives in the Congress declared war. Agree with the draft or not...that logic is a fraud and a farce.
There are numerous examples.
No, it is more likely a scam to put the responsibility on Trump, due to veto.
The house passed a bill on Jan 19 to fund....but nothing for the wall. It did not pass the Senate. I believe McConnell is amending that bill for submission.
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