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UPDATE from Rep. Thomas Massie: NDAA Veto Override set for Dec 28th
Rep. Thomas Massie ^ | Dec 27 | Rep. Thomas Massie

Posted on 12/26/2020 4:58:04 PM PST by RandFan

@RepThomasMassie

NDAA Veto override will likely happen on Dec. 28th with 50+ Democrats voting by proxy (from home).

If constitutionality of proxy voting is going to be challenged, this could be the vote to do it on. Members could deprive Pelosi of a physical quorum by refusing to vote that day.

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: house; ndaa; notconstitutional; quorum; trumpignoreit; veto; vote
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1 posted on 12/26/2020 4:58:04 PM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Shameful. They are changing the name of Benning and Bragg, and probably other bases like Fort Hood. They are demanding that troops remain in Afghanistan, Syria, South Korea, etc and forbidding the President from removing them. They limit the President’s ability to divert funds for a border wall in an emergency. God only knows what other giveaways and love letters to the CIA is in there also.

They are a bunch of political whores, voting for whatever the defense industry lobbyists tells them to.


2 posted on 12/26/2020 5:04:25 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: DesertRhino

That is a pretty good summary and why Rand will try and do everything he can to stop it or slow it down in the Senate.

Trump wanted troops home for Xmas/New Year and the Dems + Cheney (!) combined to stop it from happening. Disgusting.


3 posted on 12/26/2020 5:08:46 PM PST by RandFan ( )
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Further info on whether they will have a quorum:

Replying to @RepThomasMassie

Good evening Congressman, would you mind a quick explanation to the issues with proxy voting? This is new to me and surely many others.

@RepThomasMassie

The Constitution says each house shall make its own rules, and there’s nothing to explicitly prohibit proxy voting, but the Constitution also requires a quorum to conduct official business. The question is then whether proxy votes count toward the quorum requirement.


4 posted on 12/26/2020 5:13:58 PM PST by RandFan ( )
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To: DesertRhino

What will they rename them? Fort Mediocre? Joint Base Generic?


5 posted on 12/26/2020 5:17:41 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: RandFan

If there are payoffs in this bill, I wonder if everyone who votes for it can be charged with treason.


6 posted on 12/26/2020 5:22:02 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: DesertRhino

What ever the hell the sign may say it will always be Ft Bragg to me. I spent 13 years there over my 30 year career. The memories are too powerful to dismiss based on a bunch of communist democrats trying to erase history.


7 posted on 12/26/2020 5:25:51 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: RandFan

Go for the proxy vote as unconstitutional. It is. It collapses the whole idea of representation.


8 posted on 12/26/2020 5:26:54 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: DesertRhino

What they really want is to eliminate the Constitutionally relegated authority of the Executive Branch over the DOD.

Meaning Congress really wants to control of the military.

The Legislative and Judicial Branches are absolutely trashing the US Constitution.

Our Liberty, our Republic, and our Constitution (the supreme law of the land), cannot be restored without bloodshed at this point.


9 posted on 12/26/2020 5:29:21 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: marktwain

Yes. Massie should challenge it. I hope so..


10 posted on 12/26/2020 5:32:20 PM PST by RandFan ( )
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To: DesertRhino
They are demanding that troops remain in Afghanistan, Syria, South Korea, etc and forbidding the President from removing them

That costs tens of billions per year -- and we've been in those places between 20 and 70 years!

But give (some) Americans an extra $1,400? "NO WAY...WE CAN'T AFFORD IT...THE DEFICIT!!!"

11 posted on 12/26/2020 5:39:24 PM PST by montag813
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To: mosaicwolf

I am that way with Hood.


12 posted on 12/26/2020 5:41:51 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: marktwain

Remember every Dem is just a lockstep proxy for Pelosi who could also just "deem" it passed.

13 posted on 12/26/2020 5:46:42 PM PST by Theophilus (Breathe free or die hard!)
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To: RandFan

No reason they can’t go to DC.


14 posted on 12/26/2020 6:38:54 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: RandFan

Must be physically present.... no proxy


15 posted on 12/26/2020 6:45:00 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: bigbob

Well, ‘they’ haven’t paid ‘US’ back for 2 carriers named for Ford & Bush so I can imagine a whole lot of Schiff named for BO, and his motley crew, a few forts and ships for the Bidens....and other traitors.

Libs are anti troop - pro Defense Contractors guess their ultimate goal is Private troops to fight their wars...

Kind of how the Roman Empire began its downfall...the citizens were ‘too good’ to pick up their own trash and fight their own wars...

Paybacks are hell


16 posted on 12/26/2020 6:47:05 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: mosaicwolf

Mt Vernon and Monticello are next. Patton and Chesty Puller are rolling over in their graves knowing what the Bolshevik bastards are doing to the memory of their grandfather’s service. Both had grandfathers killed in the war.


17 posted on 12/26/2020 7:13:37 PM PST by NKP_Vet (“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori--It is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland)
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To: RandFan

Crazy theory, what if Trump is already under house arrest and all the efforts here are just CIA/FBI smoke screens?

Its paranoia I know, but with the way things are I donno.


18 posted on 12/26/2020 7:16:40 PM PST by Bayard
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To: bigbob

Based on current trends they will probably call them ‘Fort Fort’ and ‘Base Base.’

What will they rename Brag Blvd? Got it ‘Blvd Blvd.’


19 posted on 12/26/2020 8:06:31 PM PST by Freeper (Democrats - Please STOP representing MY country!)
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To: xrmusn

Naming major fleet units after politicians was a horrible mistake, and now there’s a price to be paid.

Next three aircraft carriers: USS Clinton, USS Obama, USS Pelosi.


20 posted on 12/26/2020 8:13:10 PM PST by Jim Noble (Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning)
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