Posted on 12/20/2022 5:31:35 PM PST by bitt
The Senate on Tuesday evening voted 70-25 to advance the $1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill and open debate.
This is just the first procedural vote.
The latest spending bill is full of special interest earmarks and pork.
The bill includes $45 billion to Ukraine, $7.5 million in LGBTQ programs, Jan 6 prosecution funding and more.
There is no money for border security.
3,000 pages that no one has read.
Senate Republicans are giving away the incoming GOP Majority House’s power of the purse until September 2023.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Someone explain to me how voting for a RINO is different than voting for a Democrat.
Not “MY” side!
Been voting since I turned 21 in ‘66 when my Governor was Nelson Rockefeller(R), a Senator was Jacob Javits(R) and my mayor was John V Lindsay (at that time R) so I have NEVER considered the Republican party “MY” side. Only voted RAT once, in 1969 in a failed attempt to get rid of Lindsay as mayor of Fun City. But Just because I vote for ‘em, don’t mean I’m one of ‘em and THEY sure don’t give a damn about me.
That’s why I said “Patriots (maybe)” ... I can’t be sure of why they voted NO.
Half the GOP caucus voted for Satanism (the contents). Duly noted.
I’ve been a registered Republican since 69.
I now what you mean. I don’t consider Independents to be any
more on our with than the Rs are, so I’ve never been sold on
going that route.
Still, watching to Rs drop to 5-10% of the registered voters
might wake them up. Of course that’s considering they even
care if the party goes under.
It’s pretty clear they buy off on the Ds plans most of the
time anyway.
Does it have an amendment raising the 3rd party payer (PayPal, Venmo, etc) threshold from $600 to $10,000?
I wonder if J62 > J61?
And Cruz didn’t bother to vote. Shame on him.
Yep and that POS McConnell is their leader. Every senator that voted for this and who voted for McConnell to be minority leader need to be primaried and thrown out of office.
Ping
You're wrong.
They are very anxious to get started fighting hate.
Please stop giving them the credit of having good intentions and are just getting bamboozled by the democrats. They no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt. they are with the democrats and the only ones being bamboozled are conservatives who assume the GOP has any intention of ever advancing conservative values.
The Republican senators who betrayed their own party include Blunt, Boozman, Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Cotton, Graham, Grassley, Hyde-Smith, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Rubio, Shelby, Thune, Tuberville, Wicker and Young.
There! Fixed my own mistake!
The Republican party refuses to listen.
In ‘92, 17% of the electorate voted for Perot. Did the GOP listen?
When the 109th Congress (R, both houses) proved to be just as profligate as the RATs, talk started spreading about needing a Second Tea Party. Did the GOP listen?
In ‘16, the GOP allowed DJT to run in its primary process. They thought he would make a good foil for JEB...but he won the nomination. When the voters rewarded Trump’s promises with the White House along with both houses of Congress, did the Republican party listen? Or did it turn around and spend two years actively fighting his Presidency and then letting the RATs take up the fight the next two years. In effect both parties were fighting we the people.
The PARTY is out for the PARTY and to hell with the people!
When I was a younger man I believed being a rank and file member of a political party was about ideology. Over time I woke up and realized that it was just to gain privilege. I refuse to go that route. Has it cost me at times in my life? Undoubtedly...but that’s OK. I continue to remain non-aligned, I owe no one anything and I sleep well.
He’s at home under self-quarantine
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/spending-bill-omnibus-shutdown-tiktok-00074788
WHAT’S IN
TikTok ban: Legislation pushed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) that would bar the download of the popular app on government devices made it into the final bill. The measure originally passed the Senate unanimously last week and comes as many states have enacted similar TikTok bans on government devices, heeding broad bipartisan concerns about the Chinese-owned app and its reach in the U.S.
Earlier end to Covid rules: The bill includes a bipartisan deal to end a Covid-era Medicaid policy that gave states more funding and barred them from kicking people off federally funded insurance, setting a new end date of April 1, 2023, instead of July 2023.
WHAT’S OUT
Pandemic aid: Biden had wanted $9 billion to help combat the Covid pandemic and address emerging needs, but Republicans never wanted to provide any extra cash.
Energy permitting reforms: Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) hope to expedite energy projects through a permitting policy overhaul didn’t make it into annual defense policy legislation — and it’s officially out of the spending bill, too.
Every one of these 25 GOP wimps needs to be gone.
It looks like 1/2 the Senate GOP are all RINOs.
I am for a Constitutional amendment that closes - by that amendment - Congressional sessions (House and Senate) the day before every national election, with Congress not to be reopened till the date of seating the new Congress. In sum, banning any and all lame duck sessions.
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