Showing posts with label US Senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Senate. Show all posts
Thursday, July 3, 2025

The GOP House bowed down and worshipped before the GOP Senate and voted for its reconciliation bill lock, stock, and barrel today at 2:30pm, including all the clowns of the House Freedom Caucus

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The roll call vote is here . The $36 trillion national debt will soar. The interest payments on that debt were $639 billion fiscal year to d...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

House GOP can't agree to proceed to debating Senate reconciliation bill, vote stands at 206 Yea, 216 Nay (4 GOP against), with 10 GOP not voting

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Yikes.  Even if all not voting GOP vote Yea, there's a tie. Not good enough. And moments ago Thomas Massie changed his Yea to Nay lol.  ...

Senate reconciliation bill gives chipmakers like TSMC more tax credits while cutting Medicaid

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  Chipmakers get larger tax credits in Trump’s latest ‘big beautiful bill’    ... Under the bill, passed by the Senate Tuesday, tax credits ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The US Senate's biggest phony, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, boasted he had enough votes to stop Trump's bill, but voted for it all three times in the end

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    The roll call votes are here , here , and here . June 4, 2025, here : Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Wednesday blasted President Donald ...

GOP coward Senator Lisa Murkowski today hopes the US House will fix the reconciliation bill she just voted for, just like GOP coward Rep. Chip Roy hoped in May the US Senate would fix the reconciliation bill he just voted for

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 You can't make this up! Cowards hope someone else will do what must be done. Heroes do it themselves. Vote Nay for once!    

The dark side had to come to the rescue of Trump's reconciliation bill in the U.S. Senate THREE TIMES

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   Vance breaks 50-50 tie as Senate passes GOP megabill after voting around the clock    Vice President Vance cast the tie-breaking vote as ...

Trump is threatening to throttle Elon Musk's opposition to the bill in the US Senate, which still hasn't been voted on after 24 hours of debate, by deporting him

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Monday, June 30, 2025

Words have a meaning, and Real Clear Politics wants you to think Donald Trump intimidated Senator Thom Tillis to disappear

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NC GOP Senator Tillis Announces Resignation After Clash With Trump Fox News is almost as bad:   Thom Tillis announces retirement from Senate...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Republicans are doing an end-run around the Senate parliamentarian to make novel use of the current policy baseline instead of current law, asserting a Democrat precedent from 2022

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 Senate GOP declines to meet with parliamentarian on whether Trump tax cuts add to deficit ... Republicans, however, say that the parliamen...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The U.S. Senate parliamentarian still has not ruled on the GOP's wacky current policy vs. current law baseline

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The current policy is the temporary Trump tax cuts from 2017.  The current law is the tax compromise worked out by Barack Obama and John Boe...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Democrats united under Hakeem Jeffries in the US House are the only ones in American politics above water right now

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 US House Democrats voted unanimously against the Republicans' continuing spending resolution under -4.2 underwater Republican Speaker M...
Monday, March 17, 2025

This is brutal: A list of Senate Democrats who were all for last week's failed filibuster after they were against it

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 In the first column are 30 Democrats who infamously voted to abolish the filibuster late in the evening on Jan 19, 2022, which failed 48-5...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Republican Senator Mike Crapo is full of Orwellian crap, says extending the Trump tax cuts which increased deficits by $1.7 trillion won't keep increasing deficits

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   If you're not changing the tax code, you're simply extending current policy—you are not increasing the deficit. The bottom line h...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

The do-nothing US Senate under John Thune has passed 0 of 5 appropriation bills passed by the US House under Mike Johnson who still hasn't passed the other 7 and now they all want to pass Biden's spending instead through FY2025 to please phony Republican Donald Trump

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Trump's grifting, shape-shifting billionaire crypto czar David Sacks calls Zelenskyy a grifter lol

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   David Sacks, a Jewish South-African, is another one of Trump's end-run-around-the-rules appointees like Elon Musk. Like Musk he is on...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Trump appoints another election loser

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  Ex-Secret Service agent and conservative media personality Dan Bongino picked as FBI deputy director ... Bongino ran for a U.S. Senate sea...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Kash Patel confirmed to FBI by the US Senate 51-49

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Mitch McConnell, hated by ungrateful MAGA, won't run in 2026 after 40 years in the US Senate

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  Mitch McConnell announces he will retire, ending his decades-long Senate career   WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-se...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Maybe Democrats in the US House and Senate need to sue Elon Musk because they are the injured party

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 Judge Tanya Chutkan correctly ruled that the Attorneys General who sued Musk demonstrated no harm to their states. The interests of Congres...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Democrat Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is correct: Elon Musk is an unelected interloper, with no authority and no legitimacy who makes a mockery of the appropriations process

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   Musk exercises nonexistent dictatorial line-item-veto powers over spending and personnel as a "super cabinet" official who was ...