Posted on 02/22/2019 12:02:51 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, is leading the joint resolution of disapproval.
About an hour before an announced deadline for original co-sponsors on a Democratic-led effort to disapprove of President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over border security, one Republican had signed on.... the measure had already gathered support from 216 members, almost all of them members of the House Democratic caucus.
... It wasn’t immediately clear which GOP lawmaker had signed on early.... ~snip~
The law provides a path for Congress to weigh in to reject a presidential emergency declaration, but the joint resolution would need either a presidential signature or a 2/3 vote in each chamber to eventually override a Trump veto....~snip~
And the effort to stop the use of an emergency declaration to seize funds for construction of the wall at the border with Mexico should get at least some Republican support in the Senate, including from Sen. Susan Collins. “If the House passes a resolution of disapproval and it is a clean resolution, I will support that,” Collins told reporters ... “There have been many of my colleagues on the Republican side who are very wary of the president’s actions because they don’t want a future Democratic president reallocating funds.”
Collins said she is also supportive of the separate legal action being taking by 16 states to try to stop the emergency declaration, ...~snip~
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee was perhaps most direct, but .... not alone.
“It is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution because, after the American Revolution against a king, our founders chose not to create a chief executive with the power to tax the people and spend their money any way he chooses,” Alexander had said in a statement. “The Constitution gives that authority exclusively to a Congress elected by the people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
House Republican, probably Justin Amash.
It said “House Republican”, Collins is in the Senate.
Fixed. There's nothing American about Sr. Castro. He's an enemy alien, nothing more. His mother is a separatist terrorist.
A blank check agency by agency plus 5% each year isn't budgeting. It's Omni-scam and money laundering for purposes gone unlegislated.
Just one? I expect nothing from the GOP any more,
and nothing is what they deliver.
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee was perhaps most direct, but .... not alone.
“It is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution because, after the American Revolution against a king, our founders chose not to create a chief executive with the power to tax the people and spend their money any way he chooses,” Alexander had said in a statement. “The Constitution gives that authority exclusively to a Congress elected by the people.”
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People also argued that only Congress could suspend the Writ of Habeas Corpus, but Lincoln did it.
The president’s goal is not to spend tax-payer money willy-nilly on luxuries, but to ameliorate the invasion that has been occurring on the border.
Congress continues to defy its majority electorate despite the obvious evidence of the illegal alien crisis.
They want to shift blame on Trump for their deceit?
F Them.
It isn’t going to end well.
This is really bizarre.
Why is that the headline if the article doesn't say who it is?
No wonder journalism is dying.
According to other articles, you are right.
My bad. You are right.
Yes!! GOP stand for the Constitution, now that a white guy is in office that is. I mean, when Obama was doing far worse it was ok because to oppose it was racist, or something.
Put that on a sticky and send it to Alexander.
Our national security laws are, "hey look! A squirrel wearing a MAGA hat, now back to you in the studio Joe".
Any Republicans that undermine Trump on this should be primaried. McConnell should be challenged to remove them leadership and committee positions. Time to enforce some discipline on these RINO and GOPe Never Trumpers. Okay, McConnell is one as well so no action likely.
” The Congress elected by the people so celebrated by Lamar Alexander hasn’t passed an actual budget for 12 years.”
And they haven’t fixed voter fraud or illegal alien problem for about 30 years.
Sometimes the news being reported gets ahead of the script. Compression Friday ya know. It’s ok to just tell us what our elected representatives have been scripted to do before even finding out who, what, when, where, why, and how? Algorithms work faster than keystrokes or voices. “Now back to your scripted algorithm in the studio Joe”
Is the repub quisling even a Citizen of this country? I bet the nitwit is an illegal or has illegal family here.
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