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 ...
shut it down!!! For 4 years!!!
what does enroll mean in this context?
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.
Rip it up like Pelosi did to your State of the Union speech.
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.
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.
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)
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
A Festivus for the rest of us...
Veto
“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.
“Affordable Covid Aid”.
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.
Pocket veto
If the President doesn’t actually veto the bill, doesn’t it become law after a period of time?
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).
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.
I’m pretty sure Sundays — and maybe Federal holidays — aren’t included in the 10-day count. They’re definitely cutting it close.
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.
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