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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 6, 2013 5:50:50 GMT -5
The Republican-led House passed a bill Saturday to give thousands of furloughed federal workers back pay when the government reopens, but Democrats promptly characterized it as a signal the GOP doesn’t want the partial shutdown to end.
“Now we're saying to federal employees: We're going to pay you when this is all over with,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said minutes after the 407-to-0 House vote. “But right now, you just stay home … watch TV, play chess, whatever you’re going to do, because we won't let you work.”
As the fifth day of the federal government shutdown began, members of the House came together in a moment of rare bipartisanship to pass a bill, by a vote of 407 to 0, approving back pay for furloughed government workers.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid supports the measure, but said Saturday that if furloughed workers are guaranteed back pay, there’s no reason to keep them out of work.
“It’s really cruel to tell workers they’ll receive back pay once the government opens and then refuse to open the government,” Reid said on the Senate floor, suggesting that House Republicans have authorized a “paid vacation” for furloughed workers.
=*=So why not pass a bill that puts all the government back to work?
Does Harry have a twisted mind or is it 'me'?
Did anyone tell them they must stay home?
I'll bet 'i' can beat Harry playing chess!
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Feb 26, 2014 14:47:34 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Mar 11, 2014 6:53:24 GMT -5
If there's one thing that ObamaCare has accomplished it's shown ((proven)) Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are idiots and have no business being in congress much less holding important positions.
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Apr 1, 2014 8:34:45 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Jun 20, 2014 7:06:56 GMT -5
The left’s fixation with the Koch brothers is akin to CNN’s obsession with the Malaysian Airlines disappearance (and whatever become "OF THAT?"). It’s 24/7 speculation and conspiracy theories mixed with endless repetition. It’s hard to describe the nonstop onslaught from the Democrats’ PACs and campaigns against the billionaire libertarian brothers. Democrats run ads, complain about them in mailers and jabber about them on cable TV shows. The brothers seem, in some cases, their prime issue. So far it’s been a frightfully expensive lark, not doing much to up the ante against Republicans. But the Democrats seem to think it’s the only way to boost their base. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid goes on tirades like this: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., faces reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, following a caucus lunch. Reid said that he stands behind Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., after she accused the CIA of undermining congressional oversight and the separation of powers under the Constitution. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., faces reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The Koch brothers and other moneyed interests are influencing the politics in a way not seen for generations. Republican senators have come to the floor to defend the Koch brothers’ attempt to buy our democracy. Once again, Republicans are all in to protect their billionaire friends. Not only have Senate Republicans come to the floor to defend the Koch brothers personally, they have again and again defended the Koch brothers’ radical agenda – and it is radical, at least from the middle-class perspective. www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/03/27/democrats-funded-by-billionaires-complain-about-republicans-funded-by-billionaires/ |
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Oct 9, 2014 17:45:11 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier Hillbilly on Nov 5, 2014 5:13:46 GMT -5
The current continuing resolution, passed by Congress on Sept. 18, funds the federal government through December 11. Republican leaders knew when they passed this bill they were giving themselves--and their Democrat incumbent colleagues--the power in lame-duck session to preempt the Congress that was elected yesterday by passing a long-term funding bill for 2015 before that Congress could be sworn-in.
The CR passed in September fully funds implementation of Obamcare—including the “preventive services” regulation that requires health-care plans to provide co-pay free coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs. (Under this regulation, Christian individuals and non-profit organizations are forced to act against their religious beliefs by buying or providing access to health plans that cover abortion-inducing drugs.)
The current CR also permits federal funds to continue flowing to Planned Parenthood.
If the Republican leadership insists on passing a long-term government funding bill in the lame-duck session of Congress, as Leader McCarthy recommends, they will need to work with Harry Reid (instead of the incoming Republican Senate leader) to pass it. If a long-term funding bill enacted in the lame-duck session funds the government through the end of fiscal 2015—which ends on Sept. 30, 2015—it will deny the incoming Republican majorities in both houses any ability to use the funding of any agency of government to reverse policies put in place by the Obama administration.
It will relieve the incoming Congress of any responsibility for substantively combating President Obama on significant public policy issues. They will be able to symbolically pass free-standing non-funding legislation and the president will be able to symbolically veto that legislation with fear of losing funding for Obamacare or any other policy he is pursuing.
For example, if in the next few weeks Obama unilaterally declares an amnesty for large numbers of illegal aliens in the United States, the Republican House could refuse to enact a government funding bill that permits funding for the implementation of that amnesty.
But if the Republican House passes a long-term funding bill in the lame-duck session that funds the government through fiscal 2015 that does not prohibit funding for the implementation of an amnesty, the Republican House will be effectively funding that amnesty and removing from the incoming Republican-majority Congress significant leverage over the issue.
By using a lame-duck session to work with Harry Reid to fund everything Obama wants through the end of fiscal 2015, Republican leaders will be assuring that the incoming Republican Congress will be—through its first year at least—a do-nothing Congress.
It may be a Congress full of sound and fury, but it will accomplish nothing.
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