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House Passes $2 Trillion Emergency Relief Bill by Voice Vote After Hostile Debate
Townhall.com ^ | March 27, 2020 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 03/27/2020 11:04:05 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: mewzilla

That wasn’t unity.

It was bribery.


61 posted on 03/27/2020 11:45:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: billyboy15

I don’t know this specific situation, but scenarios aren’t difficult to understand:

* Own or work in an industry that requires customers.
* Government forces industry to shut down, or customers are too scared to visit.
* Payroll, rent, utilities come due.

Viola, you are out of business or unemployed.
And, for an added bonus:

* Savings are invested.
* Market crashes.

Goodbye, savings.


62 posted on 03/27/2020 11:45:51 AM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: Luircin

I certainly don’t have that attitude. If you lost your job why can’t you collect unemployment? My understanding is it will pay you net (under the legislation just signed) what you were earning when you were working?

If you are married you will soon be getting $2500, not a huge amount of cash but surely it will help.


63 posted on 03/27/2020 11:48:57 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Uncle Miltie

Quantity of money is inversely proportional to its Quality.


64 posted on 03/27/2020 11:50:30 AM PDT by C210N
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To: jazusamo

America is now forever changed.

Thomas Massie is the only conservative member of the House.

People will also demand federal money now. And get it.


65 posted on 03/27/2020 11:52:59 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

America is now forever changed.

Thomas Massie is the only conservative member of the House.

People will always demand federal money now. And get it.


66 posted on 03/27/2020 11:53:47 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: mewzilla

You could well be right.


67 posted on 03/27/2020 11:53:52 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: tennmountainman
-- Too afraid to have their vote recorded. --

No. And the voice vote was obviously unanimous. After "Any nays?" Silence.

What a roll call vote would reveal is that the House did not have a quorum.

68 posted on 03/27/2020 11:54:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Uncle Miltie

I have a great admiration for Friedman, though he probably never imagined that the results of inflationary policy would be spread across the globe and not localized to the country doing it. It seems that every other country is paying for our sins.


69 posted on 03/27/2020 11:58:39 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Nero Germanicus
-- Supposedly Pelosi had made sure that there were 216 members ( a quorum) in the chamber but we will never know for certain. --

If a quorum had been present, she would have allowed a roll call vote.

If not for Massie, this would have passed with a near-empty chamber.

The House has failry sophistcated stup for times when quorum can't be obtained on acount of catastrophe, and those rules mention on reason of conatgion. Knowing they'd not want to come back, even those rules were never invoked.

Screw the rules for them, don't try this at home.

70 posted on 03/27/2020 11:59:05 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Trumpisourlastchance; throwthebumsout

Although they didn’t do a roll call vote, do you think that some congressmen, who told their opinions, about the bill, will be rewarded or punished, for their view about it?
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71 posted on 03/27/2020 12:01:08 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: Obadiah

Please Trump STOP listening to your advisers! They are deep state or Keynsian idiots who would have you become the next Herbert Hoover.


72 posted on 03/27/2020 12:02:49 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: JoSixChip

Agree but when I say that on social media they think I’m an idiot.


73 posted on 03/27/2020 12:03:27 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Jane Long

The good news is that after mid April when people start suspecting the media is full of shite, and realize the death rate is under 1%, the markets and the economy will start improving. By July the public will decide to not speak of their mass hysteria in public, and by September it will all be forgotten and Trump can focus on sleep joe.


74 posted on 03/27/2020 12:05:06 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Luircin

Crap, that is terrible. You must be angry. I would be sore at the media and the medical “experts” that made so much hay from this.


75 posted on 03/27/2020 12:06:00 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: jazusamo

Enjoy the recession.


76 posted on 03/27/2020 12:09:12 PM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: VastRWCon

True that


77 posted on 03/27/2020 12:10:30 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Wait until the next Democrat President.
Pray there isn’t a “virus”
The original failed House bill, this time, will be mild compared to what is coming.


78 posted on 03/27/2020 12:14:46 PM PDT by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: jazusamo

Vote was 96 -0. How was that a quorom?


79 posted on 03/27/2020 12:15:08 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

The Senate vote was 96-0, is that what you’re referring to?


80 posted on 03/27/2020 12:16:59 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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