Posted on 12/27/2020 7:35:03 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during a virtual Sojourner Truth Project event last week that ousting Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) will give them significant power to pass legislation because they can pass bills with a simple majority in the Senate using reconciliation.
Pelosi spoke virtually at the Sojourner Truth Project on December 22 via Zoom. During the event, she discussed how Georgia Senate Democrat candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock’s potential victories would give Democrats significant power to pass legislation in Congress. She compared their Democrats’ potential power to having essentially 60 votes in the Senate.
“One more thing, because you know how I’m about numbers, when we win these two seats, plus Kamala Harris breaking the tie, it’ll be like getting 60 votes because once we have even the simple majority, we can vote for reconciliation, which means that you only need 51 votes to pass certain legislation,” Pelosi said.
The Senate typically needs 60 votes to pass legislation through the chamber; however, some bills in the Senate can pass with a simple majority through budgetary reconciliation. Reconciliation allows Congress to pass bills affecting spending, revenue, or deficit levels.
Republicans used reconciliation to pass the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and they tried to use reconciliation during their failed attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Democrats could use reconciliation to pass bills at a similar scale the tax cuts bill or the ACA repeal bills.
Pelosi noted that having Ossoff and Warnock win in January would make Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), the vice president-elect, the Senate’s tiebreaking vote. This would allow for congressional Democrats to pass leftist legislation through Congress with only a simple majority.
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L Lin Wood now wants GOP not to vote because it will prove there is fraud...or something like that
When the SHTF I have first dibs on Nasty.
Does anybody really doubt the Dems won’t get (steal) these Georgia seats?
All this crap going on is just a formality.
And she is going to get her wish.
Imagine how much they will cheat in the run off if we let them get away with cheating in the 2020 general election.
If they get less than 100% of the vote, I will be shocked.
Nancy plans to say , “Up yours voters” , again
Any questions folks?
We are going to have to storm DC.
The first thing that witch is doing is killing that 10K SALT deduction on federal taxes. That is smacking her right in the pocketbook.
Nancy Pelosi is reckless
This clown shouldn't even be running for a speaking slot at some village water board meeting.
I take schiff.
Biden wins only 400 us counties but the nation faces super majority power by Democrats.
And what are the people of the USA doing?
Nothing.
#USAfubar
Now that Trump has demoralized all his supporters by signing Nancy’s special interest’s pork bill, I think we can forget about winning in Georgia.
Excellent choice.
“Why isn’t the GOP using bodycam footage of Warnock’s arrest into a campaign ad?”
Because the GOP plays by the Marquis of Queensbury rules while the Democrats play by street rules (which is to say, no rules at all).
Consider the 2017 Virginia governors race; Ed Gillespie’s campaign had Ralph Northam’s year book in their possession but refused to use the black face/KKK pictures.
We’re too damn nice.
They got their down ticket wishes, so this fraud was a Dem/Repub collusion regarding Trump. Don’t worry about it happening again if the GOPe gets its way this time. It’s all about long-term power sharing and damn the consequences to the people over the next few years.
These asshoes stole the Presidential election, stole 3 Senate seats and stole probably 20 or more House seats with their coordinated fraud. In reality the rats are a minor, regional party. Unless the cheating is reversed, the federal government will be completely illegitimate and most people know it. I think this could get pretty ugly.
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