This time is no different….
The Defense Bill WILL be pasted by both House’s of Congress with majorities that will lock President Trump out of vetoing it….
It’s actually for President Biden to work with….
The next major piece of legislation is a 2021 spending bill….
THAT WILL be passed also…
There is little to no worry about a government shutdown….
But the piece of legislation that is still up in the air is a stimulus/virus bill…
The same Republicans who went along the ‘debt king’ Trump’s wild spending compounded by a tax cut/givaway are all the sudden fiscal spending worried?
Never mind that there IS a pandemic and a LOT of people don’t have jobs and are about to lose benefits….
One gets the impression that US Senate Majority leader McConnell and his merry men want to hang things going sideways to Joe Biden in 40 days…
In the end?
Like it has ALWAYS been?
The people we elect and pay to rep us WILL pull together pass bills to make things go forward…
How good to go forward?
Even they don’t know….
It’s still two weeks before Christmas, plenty of time in congressional parlance to roll together a $1.4 trillion year-end spending bill with hundreds of billions more in Covid aid. Maybe, somehow the bipartisan group finds success and bridges partisan chasms on money for local governments and shielding businesses from litigation. Or perhaps party leaders come out of their shells and cobble together a deal at the last moment.
Congressional aides in both parties said leadership staffers have been talking all along, even though it’s been a week since Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have talked — their first meaningful conversation on the issue in weeks — and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and McConnell have had no recent specific conversation about coronavirus. Pelosi herself bristled at Republicans who hoped she’d talk to McConnell: “Tell them to go meet with McConnell,” she quipped.
Top lawmakers can’t even agree on where to start negotiations, much less how to finish them. Pelosi and Schumer continue to promote the bipartisan Senate talks but senior Republicans have coalesced around the White House’s $916 billion bill.
On Wednesday, McConnell’s staff informed House and Senate leadership staffers that the bipartisan group’s attempts to marry $160 billion in state and local aid and a temporary liability shield — major sticking points in the ongoing talks — probably won’t fly with most of the GOP, according to a senior Democrat familiar with the discussion.
It marked a major blow to ongoing bipartisan discussions. And Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), a leader of those talks, suggested Congress may need to punt disagreements on liability and local government aid until next year.
And lawmakers in both parties continue to squabble internally about what they should and shouldn’t accept in a deal….
I actually doubt your optimism…McConnell knows his guy is a lame duck so the only two powers in the government now controlled by Republicans…the Courts and the Senate for now…Mitch blocking even a shitty bipartisan stimulus bill that gives money for the vaccine for states is even blocked by him…he is exercising his power and showing the Democrats that nothing will move in congress unless he says so (assuming at least one Georgia seat is held). Mitch in my mind is worse then Donald Trump…Trump was like a big 300 pound gorilla swinging wildly in the air at a pinnata…yeah he will eventually get lucky and hit and it will break, but Mitch is like surgeon with his eyes open and hitting the pinnata with precision…his behavior is intentional Trumps was just erratic and unfocused with a huge mallet to constantly swing…
I agree that McConnell IS worst than Trump now….
The Defense and Spending Bills WILL get done….
The Virus/Stimulus one?
I’m inclined to think will get done , but it will be more to McConnell & Co.’s liking …
Biden wants anything passed…
McConnell better pray the he gets the votes in Georgia ….
He don’t?
Biden IS gonna be under YUGE pressure to stick it to McConnell and GOPer’s
Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
Just a reminder: govt shuts down at midnight tomorrow. Senate still needs to pass a funding bill.
If Biden wins both Senate seats he still will not be able to accomplish much of anything other than getting some nominees approved as some executive orders. the GOP will oppose everything Biden proposes. And getting all Democratic votes will only happen if something is not controversial in the first place.
“And” executive orders
We’ll see about that Z….
And with ‘earmarks’ coming back also?
Yea…
We’ll see….
Makes that ridiculous post of yours from a few days ago that “Bipartisanship is back”or look as stupid as the majority of your posts.
There’s a major difference between true bipartisanship and legislating with a gun at your head as in this instance .You don’t understand that and are desperately trying to pretend that everything is returning to what it was like preTrump.
You simply refuse to acknowledge what the Republican Party has become.
Oh I get CG.Hes a Republican.Whats your excuse?
Jack?
I want you to close your eyes when the Defense Bill passes with veto proof margins….
I want you keep them closed when the spending bill passes….
Jack?
Keep ya eyes closed …..
My 9:32 AM just happened….
Roll call: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020240
Remote vote by proxy:
Yea —All 232 Democrats + 111 Republicans [57% of GOP caucus]
Nay — 66 Republicans [34%] + Justin Amash (Ind., Mich.)
Not Voting — 19 Republicans [10%]
South Carolina: both Democrats (Clyburn & Cunningham) Yea; all 5 Republicans Nay
However, all 6 Republicans from New York state voted for this must-pass bill together with all of their Democratic colleagues.
When push comes to shove?
It was ridiculous then and now. James thinks because the Senate passes a continuing resolution that this is proof of bipartisanship. He really should take a civics class.
Yesterday we were told there was “significant” pushback from House Republicans on the Texas lawsuit but now 106 of them have signed on to this travesty. The House Republicans are now actively working to suppress millions of votes that were legally cast.
Bipartisanship!!
Let’s call it for what it is: Treason.
“Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.”
AUTHOR: Sir John Harington (1560?–1612)
“Of Treason,” The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington