Posted on 12/27/2020 8:41:09 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House Democrats would vote Monday on a standalone bill that would provide direct payments to Americans of $2,000 a person.
Pelosi, D-Calif., made the announcement moments after House Republicans blocked a Democratic bid to increase the payments as passed in the stimulus bill earlier this week from $600 a person to $2,000.
"On Monday, I will bring the House back to session, where we will hold a recorded vote on our stand-alone bill to increase economic impact payments to $2,000. To vote against this bill is to deny the financial hardship that families face and to deny them the relief they need," Pelosi said in a statement Thursday morning.
Hopefully, by then the president will have already signed the bipartisan and bicameral legislation to keep government open and to deliver coronavirus relief," she said.
The House is adjourned until Monday afternoon, when members will also vote on whether to override President Donald Trump's veto of the annual defense authorization bill.
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“Wrong. The GOP blocked Pelosi’s request for unanimous consent to and expanding the overall covid bill by adding $1400 to the $600 stimulus check”
Explain how the minority party blocked it.
Why is “unanimous consent to and expanding the overall covid bill” needed?
I guess when they do a “pro forma” session it has to be a unanimous vote of those present?
“All it it took was one NO”
Nonsense.
They aren’t even Keynesian.
Keynes said to cut spending in good times.
They see bad times as demanding more spending and good times as a opportunity to spend more. More spending is the only constant.
That makes them Keystone Keynesians (as in Keystone Cops).
Dude, what the Hell does a man eating a big ass ice cream cone has to do with the story? At least post a gif of a hot woman doing this. Sheesh.
Pork is pork even if it is bipartisan and bicameral Nanzi! It is just TFB that it doesn’t have the support of the average voter! But then again Nanzi maybe if you take the issue to your pals in the courts they can force POTUS to sign that garbage!
“I guess when they do a “pro forma” session it has to be a unanimous vote of those present?”
And why must it be “pro forma”?
Well, the inflation that “stimulus” creates which forces higher prices and lowers the standard of living is not temporary until at last inflation is deliberately reversed by FORCING MUCH LESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Pity it doesn’t say “next 3 miles” because then I could say: I see the orange trees have been redistributed from those with orange trees to those without orange trees in that image.
True.
Maybe Congress is 'getting the message'... their 17% approval can fall further... much further.
“I guess when they do a “pro forma” session it has to be a unanimous vote of those present?”
Why do you think this?
This is our government in a nutshell. Crumbs trickle down to the hoi polloi while the elite get fat paying off their cronies. No wonder the GOPe does not fight for Trump.
Those living off of the churn, top tier bankers notably, come out alright because inflation lags behind spending.
With a popsicle.
Keynesian Economics teaches that government spending is required for economic equilibrium EXCATLY the opposite of true economics and actual historical results.
Why do you think prices have relentlessly increased since the early 1900’s?
Only one answer: relentless government spending greater than the GDP.
It’s a parliamentary procedure that is one option for passing legislation. Obviously it doesn’t work when one or more member refuses to make it unanimous. That’s what some GOP members did last week. Do some googling on “unanimous consent” legislating.
Yep. Throw it at the Turd and watch him and his fellow RINO Senators
choke on it. CUT the 100’s of Billions in pork. Help legal Americans and
their small businesses during this Pandemic.
CUT the massive foreign aid.
It just takes one objection to kill a bill up for unanimous consent.
Why was it an unanimous consent bill?
So that after 8 months of the media covering up Dems blocking the checks, the media could scream “Republicans block checks!”
Fake news doesn’t just happen.
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