Posted on 05/10/2016 2:28:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Heard a talking head on Fox talking about Trump and Ryan trying to come to terms over the Ryan/McConnell legislative agenda.
Does anyone have a list of the legislative goals of the Ryan/McConnell legislative agenda?
Even if the Trump program as to rates and simplification were adopted, there would still be room for many favors in the transition rules and enabling legislature; and the budget likewise contains many secret deals as to spending. In both instances, the details are so complex that outsiders have a hard time researching and understanding what the deal is and just who benefits, and Congress tends to package the smelly stuff with must pass legislation and giving Presidents little choice.
“in the budget”
There has been no budget since 2009.
To expand on the link in post #10 which had good info ...
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/11/Why-Paul-Ryan-May-Have-Give-His-Legislative-Agenda
Criminal justice reform? welfare reform? poverty?
“Legislative goals.
Despite an abbreviated congressional calendar in 2016 thanks to the presidential election, Ryan has signaled he wants to tackle some major issues, including criminal justice reform in the next six months.
He has also talked about taking action on welfare reform and this weekend hosted a forum in South Carolina to focus on an issue that has been given short shrift on Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign trail: poverty.
...
Ryan, too, has said he would like to approve the dozen measures individually and avoid the end-of-year drama of having to cobble together a must-pass omnibus spending bill, but it’s been an item on a much larger to-do list, not the goal of the year.”
There is a budget, even if not a regular budget. It is instead constructed through continuing and supplemental resolutions and various one of authorizations.
Jim, I love your sense of humor.
Ryan/McConnell agenda. LOL!
Kent:
<< “ AMNESTY, AMNESTY, AMNESTY, AMNESTY. 1. 2. 3. 4.” >>
What has been passed are bills without teeth. There is no accounting of funds spent.
Ryan:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Paul-Ryan-Trump-Agenda-GOP/2016/05/07/id/727689/
McConnell:
Senate sets the agenda not the president -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-obama-doesnt-set-the-agenda/2015/01/21/3311dd20-a0f5-11e4-9f89-561284a573f8_story.html
weak on immigration - http://www.rollcall.com/wgdb/immigration-reform-not-high-on-mcconnell-agenda/
go along to get along -
“What I hope Senate Republicans will present to the country is a conservative, right-of-center governing majority”
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/01/04/McConnell-Previews-GOP-Agenda-Compromise-Confrontation
” When your first priority is to “govern” rather than diminishing the size and scope of government, you have nothing to counter the Democrats who make passing their agenda the price of governing.”
Ryan has been the Speaker for over four months—no agenda in sight.
Donald Trump won’t Bail out Puerto Rico.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3429031/posts
Ryan’s in bed with Cesar Conda and likely will do what he does best - cave-in.
There is a budget, even if not a regular budget. It is instead constructed through continuing and supplemental resolutions and various one of authorizations.
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If there is no budget that has been passed, the stimulus bill of 2009 is implemented each year. How big was the stimulus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009
The approximate cost of the economic stimulus package was estimated to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019
another link
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending
https://www.propublica.org/special/the-stimulus-plan-a-detailed-list-of-spending
My point is that there is no audit trail of funds spent, as there is with a regular budget passed.
What has been passed is a mammoth bucket of money, distributed at will, and without accountability.
Congress holds no audit hearings now, IIRC.
Pretty sure that Trump will set the agenda, not McConnell. McConnell can be maneuvered out.
1. Pillow biting
2. Watching tv
3. Giving thanks for the reach-around
Not a Trump fan but *really* not a GOPe fan. The sweet sweet flopsweat...
There are several levels of accounting for funds spent, but they vary according to the program and categories of spending. The telling point is that there is a lack of comprehensive budgetary discipline because there is not a single, unified budget that is deliberated upon and adopted by Congress. That weakens the weighing of means and priorities that is at the heart of proper management of finances.
Heh:
Corker is not female or attractive enough for the job. And “Trump/Corker”? sounds like something I would have laughed at a few months ago.
McConnell's agenda is no more ideological than Trump's, preserve and expand his power. They'll understand each other very well which is the root of great negotiations.
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