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COVID bill Trump is threatening not to sign is being flown to Mar-a-Lago as GOP says Senate will NOT pass $2,000 checks president is demanding and government shutdown edges closer on Monday
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 25 2020 | GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and REUTERS

Posted on 12/25/2020 12:05:23 AM PST by knighthawk

House Republicans snuffed out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bid to accept President Donald Trump's demand for $2,000 stimulus checks for Americans – failing to accept the offer in a rare Christmas Eve session and forcing the proposal to get shelved on a parliamentary move.

After the defeat of the move to try to advance the president's late-in-the-game demand, the House formally enrolled the mammoth 5,593-page bill to provide relief and keep the government from shutting down.

With Trump already in Mar-a-Lago, where he played a round of golf Thursday after releasing an official schedule saying he had 'many meetings and calls,' the House announced it would fly the legislation down to West Palm Beach, where the president is with his family.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covidbill; justveto; trump
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1 posted on 12/25/2020 12:05:23 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

shut it down!!! For 4 years!!!


2 posted on 12/25/2020 12:07:17 AM PST by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: All

what does enroll mean in this context?


3 posted on 12/25/2020 12:24:00 AM PST by SteveH
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To: knighthawk

Block the convoy until after the 25th. Park’s closed, moos out front should have told you.

The reason they’re sending it to Florida is because they want to push a vote or veto, let them stew.


4 posted on 12/25/2020 12:41:01 AM PST by jz638
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To: knighthawk

Rip it up like Pelosi did to your State of the Union speech.


5 posted on 12/25/2020 12:48:23 AM PST by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: SteveH

The are two ways about this.
A direct veto or an indirect pocket veto.
The latter being more preferred in my opinion.
Hurry up and wait.


6 posted on 12/25/2020 1:18:30 AM PST by Scram1
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To: knighthawk

it tickles me that Congress particularly the House has backed itself into a corner, now ruining its precious Christmas vacay. they left the budget and another prong of covid relief to the last and BOOM! ha ha ha.


7 posted on 12/25/2020 1:28:30 AM PST by avital2
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To: knighthawk

i am not happy with the federales printing money and giving it away like santa claus

but insofar as people have had their jobs and businesses shut down by the local, state politicians...providing some compensation is appropriate...many people have suffered losses in the tens of thousands of dollars and some may never recover...

(it should come from the politicians that inflicted the damage and not from the USA taxpayers, but President Trump has no way to arrange that....so hid proposal for $2000 federal cheques is, albeit from the wrong level, better than the pathetic $600 payments Congress had in mind -...a measly- $600 for your business, for your career...is insulting)


8 posted on 12/25/2020 1:30:35 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

the money should go to those who had the losses inflicted on them ... and not to everybody..and not to just poor folks or D voters


9 posted on 12/25/2020 1:32:37 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: princess leah

A Festivus for the rest of us...


10 posted on 12/25/2020 1:35:43 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: knighthawk

Veto


11 posted on 12/25/2020 2:25:51 AM PST by Houmatt (What isn't decided in court will be at the point of a gun. )
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To: SteveH

“Enrolled” is a formality that is triggerd when the two chambers agree on language for a bill, and both chambers have passed it.

The legislative record typically has several versions of a bill. As introduced, passed with amendments in one chamber or the other (there can be a few of these variants), and “enrolled” where the legislative record of both chambers aligns on the text.

Different but similar meaning for resolutions that affect only one chamber.


12 posted on 12/25/2020 2:35:45 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: knighthawk

“Affordable Covid Aid”.


13 posted on 12/25/2020 2:45:19 AM PST by Does so (Biden's wife is a Doctor, and his son a pharmacist--Dahlberg-Acton)
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To: faithhopecharity

Well stated.

This bill is not it, however, even with $2000.
The lard in it is absurd.

Pocket veto it...or wait until the last minute not sure if Congress is adjourned..]. Then start again.


14 posted on 12/25/2020 2:51:39 AM PST by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: knighthawk

Pocket veto


15 posted on 12/25/2020 3:17:59 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: eartick

If the President doesn’t actually veto the bill, doesn’t it become law after a period of time?


16 posted on 12/25/2020 3:25:21 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

As I understand it, the period of time in question may run past the end of this session of Congress ... which means it DOESN’T automatically become law. If he doesn’t sign it, it has to be passed all over again when the next session of Congress starts with their new members on January 4th (I think).


17 posted on 12/25/2020 3:34:18 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Alberta's Child

So a President has 10 days to sign (or veto) a bill or it becomes law automatically -— unless Congress adjourns during the 10 days.

This Congress is scheduled to adjourn (end) Jan 3, 2021.

Does the 10 day period begin once the bill is passed or once the President receives it? I think either way I don’t think the pocket veto will work -— he’s going to have to actually veto it.


18 posted on 12/25/2020 3:49:24 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

I’m pretty sure Sundays — and maybe Federal holidays — aren’t included in the 10-day count. They’re definitely cutting it close.


19 posted on 12/25/2020 3:55:16 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: knighthawk

Flying 6,000 pages of paper seems like overkill, unless they mean using established mail services in that case, it may arrive there in 3 weeks.


20 posted on 12/25/2020 4:00:11 AM PST by corlorde
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