So here is the first week's legislative calendar: H.R. 23 Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act H. Res. 11 Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party H. Res. 12 Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government as a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary. H.R. 22 Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act H.R. 27 Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act H. Con. Res. 5 Expressing support for the Nation’s law enforcement agencies and condemning any efforts to defund or dismantle law enforcement agencies. H.R. 26 Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act H. Con. Res. 3 Expressing the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches. H.R. 21 Strategic Production Response Act H.R. 29 Border Safety and Security Act of 2023 H.R. 28 Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act H.R. 7 No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2023 Step right up to the Greatest Show On Earth ! 7 is dead on arrival in the Senate (Aborted !) if it even gets out of committee in the House 28 will have the NRA up in arms as it requires backround checks and informing law enforcement about illegals trying to buy a firearm 29 is just a Republican created media op since it is simply a re-stating of existing immigration law 21 is another Drill, baby Drill ! Republican media op. Interestingly, an oil and gas lease auction the other day had only 1 prospective buyer in attendance. I guess the Republicans want to pay oil companies to produce. DOA 26 is Republicans pandering to the anti-abortion crown. Will be Aborted in the Senate 27 adds a reporting requirement to prior legislation that District Attorney's report to the Attorney General prosecutions and case outcomes for a named list of specific crimes (Might happen) 22 prohibits sending petroleum from the strategic reserve to China (might happen, but enforcement will be a real bother) H Res 12 - LMAO, words just fail H Res 11 - Ummmmmmmm, will they be investigating Ivanka's 41 fast tracked trademarks granted in China ? Naaaaaaaah 23 - Defunding the IRS ( won't even be considered by the Senate) So out of 8 bills being brought to the floor, and understanding that one or two might be because of bribes paid by McCarthy in the form of promises to the 20 radical Republicans, maybe 4 will advance and of those 4 maybe 2 will eventually get a vote and of those 2 maybe 1 actually might cover something that doesn't already exist in legislature or law. I'm not even going to comment any more on the committees as I'm laughing too hard. So, out of 52 weeks in the year, with Congress in session maybe 2/3 of that and not even considering any extended debates, government shutdowns, Republican infighting with their radicals, etc. ,that amounts to, maybe, 34 bills sent over to the Senate. And all these Congresscritters are cashing paychecks and collecting campaign contributions all year.
That’s all they ever have is a show That one of the first things they did is make it more difficult for the IRS to equally audit the very wealthy and then moved to gut the bipartisan ethics office should sho any moderate American what their true goal is. On top of that their budget contains cuts to both Social Security and Medicare, unfortunately their base is too <removed> to be able to comprehend what is going on.
In their defense, what exactly would the Democrats allow them to pass? The House is a show and the Senate will also be nothing but a show.
Not one is helping the average American taxpayer economically. They are all based on the 2016 and various 2022 state GOP party platforms. My take is the following: HR 23 already passed on the first day. It is to roll back the hiring of 87000 IRS personnel. However, it passed WITHOUT the 72 hour wait period for all bills and was voted on almost immideately. Or in other words, the House GOP violated their own rules with the ink that was not even dry net. And yes, it won't be taken up in the senate. H. Res. 11 is simply another "Unamerican Activities Committee" and is not designed to be a true investigative committee. It is there to seek out public or government embarrassment information, to become an "Ant-Chinese committee, and if anyone is associated with that person, then they are aligned with the CCP even though they will have no evidence. It will pass, but it does nothing to help with inflation or the economy whatsoever. Just a "name-calling" committee. H. Res. 12 again is another committee for the GOP members to get themselves on Fox, Newsmax, OANN, and other places for show. It is not serious. And there is no weaponization of the Federal government if the federal government This is a campaign promise by the Freedom Caucus and will be filled primarily with Freedom Caucus members, including Rep Perry who was one of the supporters of the insurrectionists on janary 6th. The foxes have come home to protect the chickens while in the chicken coop. H.R. 22 The title sounds nice, but I the text of the bill I cannot find yet. If it is that simple, it is a symbolic win for the GOP if it passes both the House and Senate, but if it has language in there where it would prevent from releasing the oil reserves in any way because of something like a natural disaster or a national emergeny, then it would violate the seperation of powers doctrine within the US Constitution. If it just barred from selling the oil in the strategic reserves directly to China, then it is a bill that is much ado about nothing. H.R. 27 will simply eliminate the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion. And the American Bar Association will be against this bill from day one. Again, a campaign promise by the Freedom Caucus. H. Con. Res. 5 is kinda interesting. The GOP wants to defund the FBI and the DOJ, which are law enforcement agencies. And most law enforcement agencies get their funding from the availabilty of local and state tax revenue. There is a town in outside of Fort Worth that cannot maintain is 3 personal police force because of the lack of tax revenue. And they would be violating the spirit of the bill. Finally, this bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate because it does not address the real needs of the law enforcement. Just another campaign promise that appeals to their base support and no one else. H.R. 26 is a bill demanded by hardline pro-life groups. It will be dead in the Senate. However, it is another attempt at eliminating abortion on a national level. I guess the GOP did not learn their lesson in the midterms or the results from the Kansas amendment that failed. H. Con. Res. 3 so the question is what prolife facilities have been attacked? Or is the GOP now believing their alternate universe is a reality now. Now, if people can speak up, first amendment right you know, at facilities and disrupt them, is that constitutional and not an attack per se. Or is the GOP want to eliminate free speech in the manner of pro-life, and thus violators of the US Constitution and not patriots. H.R. 21, I cannot find any text of this bill, at least the 118th Congress version. There is a 117th Congress version that would require an increase in oil and gas production on federal land no matter what, eliminate some of the EPA regulations, and so forth. The oil and gas industry love this bill, but it is not capitalism, and it is not necessary. H.R. 29 is a bill dead on arrival in the Senate. It is a bill that simply wants to build "Trump's wall" as a monument to man's stupidity as Patton would say, and to see if "Mexico" would pay for it somehow. It does not address the root cause of illegal immigration because that would require putting two or more brain cells together. It's an easy way out politically not to address the problem. H.R. 28 Trying to put any and all illegal aliens in the NICS system violates the rule of law. Why I am not surprised. The criminal aliens are the ones who have committed felony crimes under state or federal statutes, ie Title 18 of the United States Code. This will not be taken up in the Senate and tries to criminalize aliens altogether. BTW, the Supreme Court has already ruled that illegal aliens do not have a right to purchase firearms. So that is a misnomer. H.R. 7 is a bill by hardline pro-life groups when and if an abortion is medically necessary. And that is the only exception. Putting the disclaimer in there is already political nonsense. I guess the GOP lawmakers have not or will not read those medical insurance pamphlets or look at their websites to see what is and what is not covered. Most insurance companies do not pay for casual or nonmedical necessary abortions anyway. And this will not be taken up in the senate for the health of the mother.
I think the Senate would want to see more substantive bills, such as the debt ceiling limit raise and other necessary items. But when the House was controlled by the Democrats and the Senate controlled by the GOP in the 116th Congress, the last two years of the Trump Administration, Sen Mitch McConnell routinely did not take up bills passed by the Democratic House that were purely political in nature. Most of these bills are campaign promises by the Freedom Caucus and/or hardline pro-life groups. One bill was introduced late in the 117th Congress and is now being reintroduced in the 118th Congress.
There are some bills that could pass but they would require compromise. The senate isn’t a show, they will continue rapidly confirming judges.
Did you actually read the post ? Let me translate: The only think they are doing is cashing their paychecks and collecting contributions for the next election cycle.
And that's part of their job too, right? Regardless, everything above that line was, ummm, congress work, correct ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Remember, this happened in 2011 with the credit agencies downgraded the federal debt, which increases the interest rates and lowers the bond yield. You want that again? Or maybe, you should be upset with Trump and his $8 trillion of debt in 4 years. But somehow you were not while in office and repeating what Larry Kudlow said, "debt doesn't matter."
It will depend on what the GOP bill does and says. But again, McConnell did the same thing from 2018 to 2020. Was he a bad guy too?
LOL. Yeah, so, the Republican House should send the Senate politically correct woke bills so that the Senate can pass them. I never see that happen the other way around. Did you already forget "resist 45", where Democrats refused to ok anything Republicans wanted?
