Congressional News and Discussion

Well not quite complete. I assume the senate can strip out those parts of the bill.

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Can and will are very different things. My sole (and soul) hope is that, because the senate has to run in state-wide elections, they will be a bit less eager to blindly follow the orange turd. But that is a weak hope, indeed. I suspect there will be no hurry to get it completed, though.

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It’s literally in the job description, you obnoxious turd. Committee meetings and hearings and procedural votes are where the Senate makes its sausage, so to speak. Floor votes on bills tend to be formalities. It’s rare that the outcome of a floor vote isn’t already known before the actual vote takes place. The votes hinging on one Senator like John McCain on repealing the ACA when it is unknown what they’ll do until they vote are really rare.

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John… You should quit and pursue your dreams bro. Never be ashamed to quit doing something you suck at. Git gud or go home!

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I dare him to name 3 Jews involved (in any way) in the founding of the current country.

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Anyone still on Twitter needs to tell him to read the Treaty of Tripoli.

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“Every member of Congress should go visit within the next ten days a private detention center,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Illinois) told me, emphasizing the fact that lawmakers have the legal right to conduct oversight of detention centers. “We are not going to stand for this intimidation of members of Congress, and coming after members of Congress to intimidate them so they don’t do oversight.”

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An update to previous:

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Yes, but will they use it?

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Narrator: No they will not, as once again, and with the exception of one or two of them, they will somehow find themselves unable to extricate their tails from between their legs.

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Republicans will, though, if Democrats regain control of the Senate.

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For this reason, Democrats could subject the Senate to time-consuming resolution votes repeatedly, to such a degree that the Senate would not have time to do anything else for the rest of this session of Congress. In other words, Democrats could respond to the waiver vote by paralyzing the Senate, and stopping the giant Trump tax bill from ever reaching the floor.

HERE IS THE LEVERAGE YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!

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I mean, the GOP did this constantly in the past and it was phenomenally effective. It’s the reason the ACA is what it is - although it’s still unbelievably better than what we had before.

Side note: the ACA has been around so long now that people are forgetting how it was before. I saw a heated arguement on Reddit yesterday where someone was insisting the reason that annual checkups are free are because insurance companies would rather pay for that than the fix…forgetting that this was one of the key points of the ACA.

During Trump’s last term, the Dem controlled House prevented tons of his activites, along with him still at least somewhat pretending to operating within the rules. With him doing whatever the heck he wants, the Dems need to unite and just oppose, block, and prevent always. I would be completely happy if Donald and Congress were both unable to do one more thing for the next 4 years. There’s already decades worth of fixing to do.

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Democrats should definitely try that, but I have zero confidence that Republicans won’t find some reason why that can’t be used in this situation. They should still try, in order to further expose the GOP’s hypocrisy and nonsense, but I really don’t think it will work.

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