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President Joe Biden was reportedly “very frustrated” during a meeting Wednesday with Democrat leaders over party infighting on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. “The president really wanted a top line and was clearly getting frustrated,” a source told Politico Playbook about the president’s summit with Democrats.

The battle over the federal debt ceiling that's currently being fought by government officials and legislators is yet another example of the political posturing that's so prevalent these days. On one side, you have Democrats, who believe that the debt ceiling should be increased automatically or removed altogether, no matter what level of debt Uncle Sam accumulates, and that it should be done with the support of Republicans. On the other side, you have Republicans, who occasionally remember that they are against big government spending, especially if they're in the minority when the debt ceiling needs to be raised. Consider...

[Catholic Caucus] A completely different outlook on confession? Pope Francis says sins are not ‘central’The Vatican editorial director wrote that Pope Francis is proposing a 'completely different outlook on confession,' in which not our sins, but God, is central. Mon Sep 20, 2021 - 3:38 pm EDT KOŠICE, Slovakia (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis suggested we should not approach Confession thinking about our sins, raising alarms among many faithful Catholics.“Are sins really the center of Confession? What does God want? That you approach him thinking about Him or about your sins? What is central, our sins or the Father who forgives...

In the nation’s Capitol, September has effectively been “Reconciliation Month” with a series of conversations in Congress about colossal tax and spend plans. Over this time it has been hard to recall even one day when there haven’t been concerns about draining American engines of commerce in order let the federal government fill the void and drive national debt to new heights. At the top of the list for Democrats is to raise the corporate tax rate to a whopping 26.5%, while also tacking on new capital-gains tax increases, and more. While lawmakers are eager to level excises on whatever...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told her fellow Democrats on Friday to “embrace the suck” when it comes to the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package her party is using as a Trojan horse to quickly pass radical ideas, according to a Politico reporter. The same reporter claimed Pelosi also reiterated the four “p” priorities to the Democrats on the call: Policy, priority in the spending, pay fors, parliamentarian.

Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not. While some have suggested this reconciliation legislation must be passed now, I believe that making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines never leads to good policy or sound decisions. I have always said if I can’t explain it, I can’t vote for it, and I can’t explain...

A group of moderate Democrats is clashing with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over when to vote on a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill – potentially imperiling a key part of President Biden's legislative agenda. The House returned from its August recess this week and is holding a crucial procedural vote Monday night on rules for debate on three measures: the budget resolution that will serve as the blueprint for Democrats' tax and spending plan, the infrastructure bill and a separate voting-rights measure. But a coalition of nine centrist Democrats has been at an impasse with Pelosi and progressive lawmakers...

House Democrats outside of the progressive “squad” had bad news for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the $3.5 trillion budget proposal. The nine Democratic lawmakers signed onto the letter are Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jared Golden (D-ME), Carolyn Bourdeaux (D-GA), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), Jim Costa (D-CA), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR) penned a letter to Pelosi threatening to squash the budget legislation if the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package is not passed first."Some have suggested that we hold off on considering the Senate infrastructure bill for months – until the reconciliation process...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) stated that by embracing “using growth projections to pay for some portions of the bipartisan bill,” Republicans have given Democrats a tool to argue the reconciliation bill is paid for. Kaine said, “I want to pay for this bill. Now, just remember, Garrett, there [are] a couple of different ways you can pay for a bill like this. So, first, is you raise revenues. And the Finance Committee is given the instruction that basically says, raise at least, I think it’s a billion dollars, and they’ll likely do that...

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) said on Sunday that there would be "more than enough" votes to prevent a bipartisan infrastructure bill from passing the House without a massive companion spending bill that Democrats hope to pass through reconciliation. During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Ocasio-Cortez told host Jake Tapper that if the Senate doesn't pass the reconciliation bill, the House "will uphold our end of the bargain and not pass the bipartisan bill until we get all of these investments in." "So, we really need to see that language and see what's put in there...

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Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they have reached a budget agreement among themselves that envisions spending an enormous $3.5trillion over the coming decade. The plan is far less than the $6trillion that Democrats initially wanted, but it did not have the support of moderate centrists in the caucus. The $3.5trillion plan includes spending for climate change, health care and family-service programs sought by President Joe Biden. Democrats will seek to bypass a Republican filibuster by winning passage through budget reconciliation.

Okay, I am looking at the 2021 Congressional CALENDAR and I see only three more days that Congress (House) is in session before it goes into recess until the middle of July when it goes back into session for 9 days until the end of the month. . Then the House is in recess for ALL of August and does not come back into session until September 20. Remember the House has to pass the Reconciliation Pork Package FIRST before it goes to the Senate.Since the DEADLINE to pass in the Senate is September 30, just how can this be...

VIDEOJoe Biden blurted out an embarrassing truth on Thursday right after he got some bipartisan support for an infrastructure bill. However, he upended that deal right after that by clearly stating that the proposed massive reconciliation pork package must also pass for him to sign the infrastructure bill or he would veto it. After that truth which was not supposed to be said out loud appeared to sink the infrastructure deal, he sent out a "clarification" on Saturday saying he didn't mean what he clearly said on Thursday.So which is correct? That he meant what he said or he didn't?...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) says he will convene a meeting with all 11 Democratic members of the Budget Committee Wednesday to begin the process for passing a budget resolution, paving the way for Democrats to pass a major infrastructure bill on a party-line vote. Schumer said he hopes to pass the budget resolution for fiscal year 2022 in July. “Tomorrow I’m convening a meeting with all 11 Democratic members of the Senate Budget Committee regarding a fiscal year ‘22 budget resolution,” Schumer said.

Who Loves Most? ( or least?) Posted on March 3, 2021 by billrandles There is a vignette in the Gospel which illustrates a very critical point about Loving God. It answers the question why some come to love God and others do not seem to have capacity to love him. And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat. And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an...

Fittingly for someone who spent more than three decades as a member of the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden holds the so-called world's greatest deliberative body in high regard. Biden calls the Senate his "second home" in his 2007 memoir and, as that metaphor suggests, it is often obvious that the relationship is about more than just a physical place. Biden sees the Senate—with its arcane rules and combative but dignified atmosphere—as the embodiment of what government should aspire to be. When Biden stresses that Americans must learn to disagree without disrespecting one another, as he did in his inaugural...

During the Fox News Channel’s Inauguration coverage on Wednesday, incoming Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will use the reconciliation process to “impose the Green New Deal, higher taxes, and Medicare for all.” Graham said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:00] “[W]e’re going to have our hands full. I’m going to be the Budget [Ranking Member]. I’m going to be fighting Bernie Sanders as he uses the budget reconciliation process to impose the Green New Deal, higher taxes, and Medicare for all. So, to my Republican colleagues out there, let’s...

Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter John 21:15-19 Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus asks Peter three times if he loves him. Thus the Lord gave Peter the opportunity to be reconciled with him for his threefold denial. What does the word "reconciliation" mean? It is derived from the latin term cilia, meaning eyelashes. To be re-conciled is to be brought eyelash to eyelash with another, to see face to face, eye to eye. Jesus was perceived by the first Christians as the fulfillment of this hope of Israel. He was himself, in person, the reconciliation of divinity and humanity....

The battle over the Supreme Court merely reflects the hostility that underlies American politics today. It is fashionable to blame President Donald Trump for all the nation’s ills. However, his success grew out of the political war that liberals have been waging on the American people for years. Abraham Lincoln observed that all the armies of the Earth could not take over America. Rather, he warned: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our...