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Senate Leaders Agree on Possible Path to Reopening Government
National Review via Yahoo ^ | January 22nd, 2019 | Mairead McArdle

Posted on 01/22/2019 3:34:58 PM PST by Mariner

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to a deal that could end the partial government shutdown, which entered its 32nd day Tuesday.

Under the deal, the Senate will vote Thursday on two bills intended to end the shutdown. One bill includes President Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to construct a wall at the southern border, and one would fund the government entities affected by the shutdown through February 8, kicking the fight down the road until then.

“People are saying isn’t there a way out of this mess, isn’t there a way to relieve the burden on the 800,000 federal workers not getting paid, isn’t there a way to get government services open first and debate what we should do for border security later?” Schumer said in announcing the deal. “Well, now there’s a way.”

About 800,000 federal workers are currently missing their paychecks as a result of the shutdown, which has broken the record for the longest in U.S. history.

Earlier Tuesday, Schumer panned the president’s weekend proposal to end the shutdown, which included restrictions on the ability of immigrants to claim asylum.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; US: New York
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To: Mariner
McConnell swoops in to save the Democrats again.

Will Republicans win the dueling bills battle or will our side turn on Trump and support the Schumer bill?

-PJ

41 posted on 01/22/2019 4:42:17 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Mariner

What a bonehead move...force them to fillibuster...it’s a layup...


42 posted on 01/22/2019 4:58:43 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: wiseprince

“force them to fillibuster...it’s a layup”

Correct.

And there might be a few Dims that will vote for the $5.7bil for the wall...breaking their “solid blue wall”.

Which would be a enormous political defeat for Dims.

Then, 100 Republicans in the House sign a discharge petition to vote on that bill forcing a floor vote in the House.

I don’t think Nancy can keep 30 of her own caucus from voting for it.


43 posted on 01/22/2019 5:23:01 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

They did this on purpose. They don’t support Trump. If Trump stays strong and vetos the house bill (it will easily pass the Senate) and makes a lot of noise as to why he will still win this....He must Veto the bill!


44 posted on 01/22/2019 5:26:09 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: aquila48

It has been a week or so since the last Panic Attack people are sloughing off.


45 posted on 01/22/2019 5:30:31 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: MeganC

AGREED!


46 posted on 01/22/2019 5:31:07 PM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Da Coyote

MM is doing nothing like that. Next up 50+ new judges. He will be one of the most effective and productive majority leader since Lyin’ Lyndon.


47 posted on 01/22/2019 5:33:07 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Da Coyote

MM is doing nothing like that. Next up 50+ new judges. He will be one of the most effective and productive majority leader since Lyin’ Lyndon.


48 posted on 01/22/2019 5:33:07 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Mariner

Senate leaders are irrelevant.

Don’t waste time.

Only two people matter, Trump and Pelosi.


49 posted on 01/22/2019 6:13:27 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Vindictive tyrant Pelosi refuses to come to the table to negotiate causing a government shut down....Then she tried to following Pompeo’s tracks to undo negotiations if possible like Obama and Kerry did after Trump’s visit abroad. She gets grounded and now closes the doors for SOTU.

Further she’s demanding a pathway to citizenship or permanent legal status to “dreamers”.....(think of the caravan dreamers on the way)


50 posted on 01/22/2019 6:23:39 PM PST by caww
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To: Mariner

“McConnell allowing a vote to fund government through Feb 8th...”

That’s what going to happen. It will allow the idle workers to get paid.

Same thing Congress always does. Push the problem down the road.


51 posted on 01/22/2019 6:28:39 PM PST by be-baw
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To: DOC44
Neither bill will pass. Vote on funding the wall first. If it doesn’t pass then the second won’t pass. Trump still has to sign it either way.

Assume both bills pass. The House can then pass the funding government bill, but defeat the wall funding bill. What was accomplished?

52 posted on 01/22/2019 6:55:53 PM PST by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Mariner
isn’t there a way to get government services open first and debate what we should do for border security later?” Schumer said in announcing the deal.

Yes, there is. Pass a bill funding the border, then pass a bill opening the little bit of government that's shut down, and then you can argue all you want about what else we should do for border security!
53 posted on 01/22/2019 7:48:56 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: politicket
This happens pretty often - is legal - and gets around the "All spending bills must originate in the House" issue.

Um, that's not what the Constitution says: "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives;" - these bills don't raise any revenue at all, they merely spend it.
54 posted on 01/22/2019 7:55:17 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: Mariner

WALL OR NO DEAL


55 posted on 01/22/2019 8:12:39 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: mewzilla

But the Senate has been doing this since Daniel Webster.
That’s a lot of precedence!

They take house appropriation bill and amend it, which the Constitution says they can.

I wouldn’t mind having a court look into it though. Seems more limiting of the House’s power than intended.


56 posted on 01/22/2019 8:22:15 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

No.
Chucky has omly agreed not to filibuster starting debate on a ‘wall bill’- but not ending debate.
Gotta end debate before there can be a vote.

(Sorry, my mouse is acting up and I can’t ‘cut and paste’)


57 posted on 01/22/2019 8:29:43 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mewzilla; All

The spending bill starts in the House and then moves over to the Senate after a House vote. Schumer apparently has worked out the framework of a deal for the Senate to approve what the House has or will have already voted on.


58 posted on 01/22/2019 9:37:54 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: rightwingcrazy

What about The House?


59 posted on 01/22/2019 9:53:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Secret Agent Man

What should we call the new party? The “Constitutional” Party sound good to me.


60 posted on 01/22/2019 9:57:28 PM PST by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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