LEGISLATIVE PORK?
Posted on 12/23/2022 8:19:49 AM PST by cotton1706
A plan is starting to form just in case there is no solution to the resistance against Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as the Speaker.
According to reports, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise is being told to be on standby.
This may not sit well with McCarthy, but the Republican Party has to get a Speaker in place as quickly as possible if they are going to stop this runaway train.
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Cotton1706, why did Tom Cotton vote for the Omnibus?
McCarthy did not stop the $1.8 trillion spending bill.
He’s toast.
Ditch Mitch too.
LEGISLATIVE PORK?
The $1.7 trillion “omnibus” is filled with gun confiscation language that violates the 2A:
$700+ million for “Red Flag” Gun Laws
14.1% increase for Biden’s “Pistol Ban”
$14.4 million for illegal “Gun Registries”
WEF young global leaders forum?
McNoName legacy? war hawk
Rino
blackmailed?
You're a funny guy.
GOA will score all votes to advance the anti-gun appropriations package unless each of the following gun control provisions are struck from the bill:
1. Massive 14.1% ATF Budget Increase to Facilitate Biden’s Pistol Ban
2. $14.4 Million for ATF’s NTC Budget to Maintain it’s Illegal Near-Billion Record Gun Registry
$700+ Million in Funding Available to Bribe States to Pass “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Laws
3. Directing VA Medical Centers to Utilize Confiscation Orders on Vulnerable Veterans
4. Department of Education to Push “Safe Storage” of Parents’ Firearms
5. Funding for VA to Maintain “Gun Storage Maps” to Keep Tabs on Where Veterans Keep Guns
6. New Annual Compensation for Families of Deceased ATF Agents
Could be an Indication of Upcoming Gun Confiscation
Gun Control Earmarks for “Orchid Healing Circles” and More!
Dickey Violations Galore While CDC Suppresses Self-Defense Statistics
Programs Discouraging Women from Exercising their Second Amendment Rights
Anti-Gun “Community Violence Intervention” Initiatives
“Violent Anti-Government Ideology” and “Domestic Radicalization Research”
It is an outrage that any legislator sworn to uphold the Constitution and the Second Amendment would even consider passing a 4,155-page $1.7 trillion appropriations bill with so many gun control provisions. Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed. Each gun control must be struck from any final government appropriations package in order to respect the Second Amendment and eliminate opposition from gun owners.
Let’s take a guess, shall we?
Threatened, bribed or blackmailed?
McCarthy isn’t in the Senate, so why blame him?
Scalia’s might be marginally better than McCarthy but not much. My guess is he wants it but can’t say so out loud.
I apologize for the Tom Cotton reference, as I now see you have been here far longer than Tom Cotton has been in politics.
Scalise is probably not much different from McCarthy on most style and substance grounds. But blocking the latter would be a sign that the base was’t completely powerless. And as the leadership backfills in former’s prior designated slot as Majority leader, etc. might get someone better on the back end of the leadership team. Also, having as speaker someone nearly murdered by the crazed other side, should either cramp some of the crazies’s tactics or result in monumental slap downs by Scalise.
He has not made any move to block it 8n the house.
All it would take is a request to Read the Bill and the time would run out.
Read the Bill on over 4,000 pages is a filibuster.
“I apologize for the Tom Cotton reference, as I now see you have been here far longer than Tom Cotton has been in politics.”
Haha. Yes. My screen name is a password I was using at the time that referenced Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin.
So nothing at all to do with Tom Cotton (who I believe was in Iraq at the time).
In one particular historical election for Speaker, there were 133 ballot votes.
I believe 17 times, more than one ballot took place over the entire history of the Speaker voting process.
Historical Highlights
The Longest and Most Contentious Speaker Election in House History
February 02, 1856
At the conclusion of the longest and most contentious Speaker election in House history, the House elected Representative Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts as its presiding officer for the 34th Congress (1855–1857). Sectional conflict over slavery and a rising anti-immigrant mood in the nation contributed to a poisoned and deteriorating political climate. As a sign of the factionalism then existing in the House, more than 21 individuals initially vied for the Speaker’s post when the Members first gathered in December, 1855. After two months and 133 ballots, the House finally chose Representative Banks by a vote of 103 to 100 over Representative William Aiken of South Carolina. Banks, a member of both the nativist American (or “Know-Nothing”) Party and the Free Soil Party, served a term as Speaker before Democrats won control of the chamber in the 35th Congress (1857–1859). Banks retired from the House to serve as governor of Massachusetts.
There’s a statue of Speaker and Governor banks in Waltham, MA, which I used to drive by frequently.
There is no filibuster in the House
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