Posted on 08/08/2021 8:56:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill has stalled Saturday as Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) leads the Republican opposition.
“I wasn’t elected by the people of Tennessee to be the most popular person in the Senate. I was elected to stand up for their interests,” Hagerty told the Washington Times’ Haris Alic. “I can’t in good conscience vote to accelerate a flawed bill that puts us another quarter of a trillion-plus in debt, especially when we haven’t had an opportunity to dig in and understand its substance or economic ramifications.”
Most of the Senate has wanted to advance the $1.2 trillion, 2,702-page mammoth legislation; however, Hagerty has not consented.
Hagerty continued:
There are a lot of amendments that people want to get past. I’m not objecting to those amendments whatsoever. A lot of them are good amendments that would make the legislation better, were they to pass… I’m also not trying to get any of my amendments included.
Hagerty also cited the national debt as another reason to oppose the bipartisan bill. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the bill would add $256 billion to the debt, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn-Wharton Budget Model found that the bill would create no “significant” economic growth.
“That debt is going to be parked on the backs of our children and grandchildren. And I haven’t heard anybody propose how to fix it. They just want to accelerate the passage of the whole thing,” Hagerty said.
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It didn’t work out though. I thought the bill advanced already. Maybe I missed something.
Has to pass the House, right?
Does bipartisan mean the unity party pretends they are two different parties,with different ideas, who have come to an agreement via vigorous debate..and finally they have found common ground?
There’s a lad.
Senate’s the best place for a showdown. If he can persuade enough Senators to block closure, it’s doomed. The House has no filibuster rule.
That’s the usual way. Very thin pretense this time.
GOD Bless Hagerty.
GOD Bless Hagerty.
Sorry.
Nevermind the future and our children, it's worse than that. They are printing money now and destroying our savings, and the dollar, today!
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed? -- James Madison, Federalist Papers 62
Tennessee has two solid senators. Those two plus Ron Johnson, Rick Scott and Kennedy in Louisiana are among the only that seem to be consistently trustworthy. Rubio is pretty solid for us in Florida, except when he isn’t.
Blowback from passing OBAMACARE to learn what was in it?????
Past or passed.
Alabama better see Tommy Tuberville opposing this bill with gusto, or he’ll be a one termer.
They still have to vote on the final bill. But in the meantime each individual amendment in the bill can be objected to and forced to be debated. I think they are trying to remove some of these amendments from the final bill before it is voted on.
The final vote has not happened yet. They are now haggling on adding or removing separate amendments in the bill.
GOD Bless Hagerty.
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Explained his position on FOX last night. Courageous, no BS kind of guy. Citizens of Tennessee should be proud of him.
He also said he wouldn’t vote to certify the election on Jan 6. But he did.
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