Posted on 05/10/2017 8:52:23 AM PDT by ColdOne
Three Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Wednesday to reject an effort to overturn an Obama administration rule limiting methane emissions from oil and natural gas drilling.
Only 49 senators voted to move forward with debate on legislation to undo the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule, short of the 51 votes needed.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) joined all 48 members of the Democratic caucus in rejecting the resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA).
Graham and Collins had previously publicized their plans to vote against the legislation. But McCain’s vote came as a surprise.
McCain said that he voted against the resolution because he fears that it would have prevented the BLM from writing an improved regulation in the future.
“While I am concerned that the BLM rule may be onerous, passage of the resolution would have prevented the federal government, under any administration, from issuing a rule that is ‘similar,’ according to the plain reading of the Congressional Review Act,” he said in a statement.
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3 words: Low Information Voters
Maine will never get rid of Collins - too many Democrats love her. That’s what she is, after all.
51 voted against. ALL ‘Rats.
The same three problem prima Donna clowns —
The Congressional Review Act is one of the better pieces of evidence that career politicians are wrongly protecting their voting records imo. They do so by letting non-elected federal bureaucrats get away with exercising unpopular, unconstitutional legislative / regulatory powers, such powers often state powers that bureaucrats have stolen from the states.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
More specifically, the Founding States made the Constitution’s first numbered clauses, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in faceless, non-elected bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies like EPA, IRS and many others.
So elected members of Congress have a constitutional “monopoly” on Congress’s very limited legislative powers whether they want it or not.
Again, the major concern with the Congressional Review Act is that the wrong people are exercising not only the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, but also stolen state powers.
The likely reason, imo, that post-17th Amendment ratification lawmakers try to keep their voting records clean is to fool low-information voters, voters who have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting these state sovereignty-ignoring lawmakers.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Psychologically, McCain is still a POW.
The VC broke him at his core, and he’s been cross-wired ever since. Its why he seems to instinctively fight against his own.
Juan and Linda side with Team Obama again.
GOOD GRIEF!
You’re wrong.
He has no character.
Shocked to see you defend him.
yep
McCain has PACs that pay for democrat primary crossovers.
McCain crashes another plane par.
have to ask the voters in their districts that question
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The three pi$$-heads continue to obstruct.
We need a concentrated voter education program in their states.
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With signs of a close vote, we now know who the dems will call on to keep VP Mike Pence from having to cast the deciding vote. These three republicans should be known as Emergency Democrats for when the democrats need Senate votes, but haven’t been able to convince the voters of those states to agree with them.
Did McCain and Graham uncouple before the vote?
And in "Linda's" case, the answer is, Democrats crossover to vote for him/her/it in the primary (in a field liberally seeded with straw candidates), and then don't put up any opposition in the general. Linda is their homie.
The GOPe is cool with the situation as well. It's only us voters that aren't.
I have not voted a straight ticket in 16 years, mainly because I refuse to register a vote for Linda.
We’re talking about a selling job, not yummy character assassination (and yes, I say it again).
It’s more that I am warning you about what you are letting into your own soul.
We don’t care if McCain is kangaroo meat in a can for the purposes here. We just need him to budge.
AZ is loaded with retirees, and they are not dependable in keeping up with crooked slimeballs like McCain.
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