Posted on 03/23/2020 9:21:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) worked to scupper the phase-three coronavirus relief package on Sunday after Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) told caucus members last week that the bill was “a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”
Clyburn’s comments came on a Thursday call featuring more than 200 House Democrats, during which caucus members laid out a list of provisions they wanted to be included in the Senate’s trillion-dollar package.
Republicans have said that Democrats have reportedly demanded increased bargaining powers for unions, as well as environmental regulations for airlines and more wind and solar tax credits.
Pelosi flew into Washington, D.C. over the weekend to add demands to negotiations, a move that Senate Republicans have cited as the reason why the procedural vote to fast-track the legislation fell by a party-line vote on Sunday night.
Speaking after the vote, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) slammed Democrats for playing politics in a time of crisis. 14
“All of a sudden, the Democratic leader and the speaker of the House shows up and we’re back to square one,” McConnell said, saying the shift amounted to “obstruction.”
“We’re fiddling here, fiddling with the emotions of the American people, fiddling with the markets, fiddling with our health care. The American people expect us to act tomorrow,” McConnell said. “And I want everybody to fully understand if we aren’t able to act, it’ll be because of our colleagues on the other side continuing to dicker when the country expects us to come together and address this problem.”
Hope Trump quotes that in his next press conference.
A conservative will alter their beliefs to fit reality.
A leftist will alter reality to fit their beliefs.
Only the House can ‘impeach’.
The House is run by Democrats.
James Clyburn is a Democrat..................
Take back the house! crush these bastards where they stand
yes i know
Wouldn’t you just love to punch this race baiter in the mug?
We seriously need to turn democommies into an insignificant minority, if not completely eradicate them.
He’s old, but so am I, so we’d both get hurt!.............
The 2020 election will split the Dem Party in two or even three separate factions.................
Clyburn commits truth, but most of the voters will never hear about it because the propaganda media will smother Trump in more accusations. Clyburn delivered several primaries to Biden and has great power.
Democrats have one objective:
GET RID OF TRUMP, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT AMERICA!
We MUST see to it that Democrats are not elected to ANY offices in 2020!
A vote for ANY Democrat is a vote against America!
The old American 40’s and 50’s saying, “the only good communist is a dead communist”, was never more true than today...
Unless the President changes the course of the Nation's response to the chicom virus attack, that old saying will have to be implemented on a scale similar to the French revolution and the colonist's retribution taken after the American revolution...
Scumbag Democrat Party - bump for later...….
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