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Congress races to pass spending bill in lame-duck session: What to expect this week
Emea Tribune ^ | 12/18/2022 | News Agencies

Posted on 12/18/2022 11:47:31 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan

Lawmakers will be in session for one last week before the 118th Congress is seated on Jan. 3.

With the clock winding down, current members are making an 11th-hour effort to push through a a roughly $1.7 trillion Fiscal 2023 spending bill that would expand domestic and Defense programs.

If they can’t, Congress will have to pass another temporary spending bill to avert a partial shutdown before the upcoming holidays.

On the sidelines, some Democrats are pushing for their own legislative priorities to be included in the broad “omnibus” spending bill, seeking to make use of the last few days they have majority control of both chambers – and the White House – before Republicans take the House in January.

On the Democratic Christmas wish list: return of the expanded child tax credit, immigration reform and more.

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


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1 posted on 12/18/2022 11:47:31 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Mother of All Pork-barrels


2 posted on 12/18/2022 11:49:06 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

When was the last time our elites did anything without crisis?


3 posted on 12/18/2022 11:50:35 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke

“When was the last time our self proclaimed “elites” did anything without a manufactured crisis that is designed to benefit nobody but themselves?”

Please accept my edits.


4 posted on 12/18/2022 11:56:21 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Howie66

Accepted.


5 posted on 12/18/2022 12:02:11 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: pgyanke

Thank you! :-)


6 posted on 12/18/2022 12:14:19 PM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The EMEA Tribune looks at issues from a Middle Eastern, European, African, and Pakistani perspective….
…Apart from focusing on news from the UAE and the Middle East, we also …

Must I be interested?


7 posted on 12/18/2022 12:18:18 PM PST by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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To: butlerweave

BOHICA on an epic scale with that treasonous prick McConnell rounding up 10 GOP scumbags to join him and Schmukie.


8 posted on 12/18/2022 12:22:00 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Push on for DC statehood again.

Manchin vote seen as critical...again.


9 posted on 12/18/2022 12:25:23 PM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Remind the RINOs supporting this spending that they are documenting that they were simply the cheapest whores available.


10 posted on 12/18/2022 12:39:55 PM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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I expect the usual histrionics and ultimate betrayal


11 posted on 12/18/2022 1:04:06 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Story is Old .

Amnesty is Dead .

12 posted on 12/18/2022 1:06:22 PM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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It’s a repeating story, not an old one. And amnesty is only “dead” in the sense that the word “amnesty” is avoided in such proposals.


13 posted on 12/18/2022 1:49:21 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: larryjohnson

The story was carried on multiple news sites, so it was not an EMEA original.


14 posted on 12/18/2022 1:53:42 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Another reason why Kevin McCarthy should not be Speaker.


15 posted on 12/18/2022 1:59:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Right Wing Vegan
11th-hour effort to push through a a roughly $1.7 trillion Fiscal 2023 spending bill that would expand domestic and Defense programs.

I remember when liberals opposed defense spending, the FBI, and the intelligence community.

Of course, that was before everyone in Washington became supporters of the Neocon-Globalist American Empire & Police State.

16 posted on 12/18/2022 2:21:38 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Spending money we do not have.


17 posted on 12/18/2022 2:58:34 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Heard there are some scumbag GOP pukes signing on to this


18 posted on 12/18/2022 3:25:10 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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Shut it down...


19 posted on 12/18/2022 3:45:38 PM PST by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: butlerweave

TIMES 1000.


20 posted on 12/18/2022 4:25:18 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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