NYP lead-in headline:
Posted on 03/02/2021 4:59:09 PM PST by conservative98
Guess she’ll have to take the bus.
Funding for a rail project near House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California district that Republicans denounced as wasteful was removed Tuesday from President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill.
The Senate parliamentarian ruled the $140 million appropriation wasn’t allowed under the so-called Byrd rule that polices unrelated items in budget reconciliation bills.
Republicans singled out the rail project as an example of unrelated “pork” in the bill, which is being rammed through Congress without Republican support using special rules that allow a simple majority vote in the Senate.
On Tuesday, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) ridiculed the project as Pelosi’s “tunnel of love” ahead of an anticipated vote on the package later this week.
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NYP lead-in headline:
The Devil is going to have his hands full when Nancy dies
A separate $1.5 million allocation for the Seaway International Bridge between Massena, New York, and Canada also will be removed...
Any bets that she could stroke out in the capitol building, when events like this whack her.
That deletion doesn’t sanitize this bill by a long shot. Ut needs to be shut down in the Senate.
Never mind that Congress cannot justify the subway under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-very limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
How dare you even put it in the bill.
That’s a kick to the...
Let’s see if they can lop off another 1.5 trillion. And 400 billion is still a hell of a lot of money.
There’s also $70 million going to Honolulu’s failed rail project (the most expensive transportation project per mile in U.S. history).
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/covid-19-relief-bill-includes-70-million-for-honolulu-rail/
Quote, Shumer said I didn’t put it in the bill. Trump did.
...crotch.
Keeping it clean and gender-neutral.
It’s a Bart extension in San Jose, not her district so why is she bemoaning San Francisco’s drop in usage of the local bus and rail cars? It’s an unemployment thing. Fund unemployment, not the trains
Maybe she wanted sandwiches for everyone
[There’s also $70 million going to Honolulu’s failed rail project (the most expensive transportation project per mile in U.S. history).]
Well, I can certainly see how that’s Covid-related. /s
They can’t just help out the American people. They have to do all of this other nonsense.
What’s that? About two miles from her house to her hair dresser?
Good.
In the words of Fred Sanford:
“Ugly woman!”
“Byrd rule”..? But he’s a KKK racist. Anything he ever did needs to be cancelled.
Kinda surprised the media hasn’t quietly changed that “D” after his name to “R”.
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