Posted on 04/27/2020 1:31:41 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that the Senate will return to the Capitol next week and he outlined GOP priorities for a fifth coronavirus relief bill.
Senators will return to Washington D.C. one week from today. We will modify routines in ways that are smart and safe, but we will honor our constitutional duty to the American people and conduct critical business in person," McConnell said in a statement.
"If it is essential for doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, truck drivers, grocery-store workers, and many other brave Americans to keep carefully manning their own duty stations, then it is essential for Senators to carefully man ours and support them," he added.
That means the Senate will return on Monday, May 4. The House has not said when it will come back, though House Democrats have said it will not be before May 4.
McConnell hinted that Republicans could try to include language to help shield businesses from lawsuits as states lay the groundwork for starting to reopen shuttered parts of the economy.
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It is widely known that the relief packages here on out will be pure pork,theft and every socialist “deal” that can be shoved into it.
“Widely known” by whom? If a bill is loaded with pork, the president doesn’t have to sign it into law. And if a president signs any bill into law, the current administration then gets to decide who actually qualifies for funding and who doesn’t.
How about confirming some judges?
Another reason not to do it. No more relief bills.
I wish they would just stop.
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Yeah, me too.
By the time they finish helping us we will be finished.
Sometimes that helps, sometimes it doesn’t. Just today both Gorsuch and Kavanaugh voted with Sotormayor in an Obamacare ruling. The decision was 8-1 in favor of Obamacare.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-government-must-pay-insurers-enrolled-in-obamacare-risk-corridor-program
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”—Ronald Reagan
That’s not the issue.
The media and democrats will use it to prove Republicans dont care. And being spineless cowards, they will cave in. Remember the Kennedy Center million$?
And don’t think that McConnell is going to stand firm and resist all this crap.
There will be a fourth bailout and it will include some or much of the democrat agenda.
Sorry but I for one am not comfortable with the governement opening up. Cant we jus play it safe and open it up after the election?
I love the President but I believe he will sign it even though the end result would be his destruction (because of mail in voting)...even though we can go to Walmart and Lowes and banks, etc, and touch key pads throughout this entire pandemic only to be told we cannot stand 6 feet away from each other to vote!
How do you create socialists? By destroying the economy and making the newly created peasant class believe that only an authoritarian economy can give them their “rights” and their “just desserts”.
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