I feel the power now. Yeah!
Posted on 07/18/2021 1:09:37 PM PDT by conservative98
Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested that his Republican colleagues take a page out of the Texas Democrats’ playbook and stage a walkout if their Senate counterparts try to jam their $3.5 trillion budget package through without GOP support.
Graham (R-SC) said the massive spending plan is designed by Democrats to pass the chamber without one Republican vote using the parliamentary procedure of reconciliation, which will allow them to dodge the 60-vote filibuster threshold.
“The reconciliation package is not infrastructure. It’s big government, a liberal wish list, paid family leave, all kinds of new social programs unrelated to infrastructure,” Graham said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“But before Republicans beat up on the Democrats in Texas for leaving Texas too much. If for some reason they pass reconciliation, a budget resolution to bring that bill to the floor of the United States Senate, the $3.5 trillion bill, you got to have a quorum to pass a bill in the Senate,” he continued.
“I would leave before I would let that happen. So, to my Republican colleagues, we may learn something from our Democratic friends in Texas when it comes to avoiding a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend package: Leave town,” said Graham, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.
Graham also took a shot at Vice President Kamala Harris who lauded the Texas Democrats who fled the state to fly to Washington, DC, to block a Republican-led voting reform bill as “courageous” and compared them to civil rights heroes.
“Hey, Vice President Harris, if you think these people are heroes, well, then I expect you to show up and pat us on the back,” Graham said.
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Bad advice
LMAO, they don’t have the testosterone to pick up and leave.
Not just bad advice but Murkowski, Romney and Collins would never go along..
If that is what it takes then YES...
They should have boycotted the certification and the inauguration, hell they should done that on Usurpation Day back in 2009.
Since that worked SO well for the Libtards. 🤪
Flimsey is a poser, he’ll never actually bite the hand that feeds him.
Oh so NOW they want to play tough. Lol!
You’re about 8 months too late.
Oh yeah, my check to the RNC is in the mail. lol
He claims it will prevent a quorum for a vote.
Just stay home and sleep late if that’s true.
Quorum rules are different in the U.S. Senate than in the Texas Senate. Graham should know that.
If we do not start lighting backfires the whole forest is going to burn. They are winning because we do not fight fire with fire.
Hmm... Trump boycotted the inauguration.
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Like 20 of them have been dining with Biden.
We only get Lies.
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How about asking AZ to decert Mark Kelly?
“Murkowski, Romney and Collins would never go along..”
Yup, only 51 to make a quorum in the U.S. Senate - and I’m sure Linda knows that.
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