Kansas Crimson

lobster wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:18 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:41 am It’s your position that 1 political party is fantastic, and the other political party is holding the country down. It is my position that both political parties are holding the country down.

It's good to see at least one person on here gets it.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:06 pm Democrats in Congress are getting things done. Trump and Republicans are just ignoring them.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:06 pm https://www.vox.com/2019/5/24/18637163/ ... s-congress

mich and lobs must be using those alternative facts

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:12 pm You cannot finesse me. You have made your position very clear.

Feral wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:18 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:06 pm Democrats in Congress are getting things done. Trump and Republicans are just ignoring them.

Come on Trad, Mich already told us that the fact that republicans are the ones who are largely responsible for "getting nothing done", is just "partisan mumbo jumbo".

House Democrats are passing bills at a rapid pace, while Trump complains they’re “getting nothing done.”

House Democrats haven’t been squandering time. In addition to their investigations, they’ve been passing legislation at a rapid clip. In all, the House has taken up 51 bills, resolutions, and suspensions since January — 49 of which they’ve passed. This includes a slate of bills to attempt to end the longest government shutdown in history, the result of a protracted fight between Trump and Congress over border wall funding.

Ironically, over the past two weeks, the House has passed bills to address most of the issues Trump mentioned in his tweet. They recently passed a bill to lower prescription drug prices, and another one to protect preexisting conditions. The House also passed nine bills on veterans issues this week alone, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi noted at her weekly press conference...

...So if the House is passing all these bills, why does it seem like Congress isn’t getting anything done? Welcome to the reality of divided government in Washington. The vast majority of House Democrats’ agenda has hit a dead end in the Republican-controlled Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has dubbed himself the “grim reaper” of Democratic legislation. Pelosi has blasted the Senate leader for embracing this role, saying he’s working for special interests in Washington, rather than the people of the United States.

“The Senate is the graveyard where bills that pass in the Congress, that have bipartisan support in the country, go to die,” Pelosi said at a recent press conference.

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MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:03 pm I’m a results guy. I like results. Linking us to some malcontents twitter feed is not my idea of results.

chiknbut wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:23 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:03 pm I’m a results guy. I like results. Linking us to some malcontents twitter feed is not my idea of results.

Feral wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:31 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:03 pm I’m a results guy. I like results. Linking us to some malcontents twitter feed is not my idea of results.

It’s so rare the Senate votes on a bill that Roll Call reporter Niels Lesniewski tweeted an alert when members took up the TRACED Act on Thursday, a bipartisan bill to tack on heavy penalties for robocalls:

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:06 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:31 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:03 pm I’m a results guy. I like results. Linking us to some malcontents twitter feed is not my idea of results.

It’s so rare the Senate votes on a bill that Roll Call reporter Niels Lesniewski tweeted an alert when members took up the TRACED Act on Thursday, a bipartisan bill to tack on heavy penalties for robocalls:

Now we’re talking. Let’s see if we can build some momentum.