Subj : Re: Your tax dollars at
To : Aaron Thomas
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Sun Dec 01 2019 11:40 pm
-=> On 12-01-19 00:05, Aaron Thomas <=-
-=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Your tax dollars at <=-
DS> So do *NOT* blame the House for any lack of legislation being passed.
DS> Put the blame where it belongs -- Mitch McConnell.
AT> What's his excuse? Are they a bunch of partisan bills? Ones to protect
AT> other countries? What kind of bills is the senate sitting on?
His excuse is that he will not allow Democrats to do anything, just like
he refused to let Obama nominate a SCOTUS.
Take a look for yourself, here is a link, one of many that lists
specific bills:
https://www.vox.com/2019/11/29/20977735/how-many-bills-passed-house-democrats-trump
Summary from that article:
House Democrats have passed a wide range of bills since they came to
power in January, ranging from a sweeping anti-corruption and
pro-democracy reform known as H.R.1, to bills to save net neutrality,
pass universal background checks for guns, and reenter the United States
into the Paris climate accords.
They have also put a large emphasis on health care, a defining issue of
the 2018 election after Trump and Senate Republicans attempted to pass a
bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Democrats have
focused on bills to lower prescription drug costs, protect preexisting
conditions, and condemning the Trump administration's legal battle to
strike down the ACA in the courts.
Much of this agenda is sitting in the Senate. There have been a few
things House Democrats and Senate Republicans have agreed on: disaster
relief aid, reopening the government after the shutdown, the resolution
to end US involvement in the Yemen war, a bill to protect public lands,
and a resolution disapproving of Trump's use of emergency powers.
And of course one bill that passed both the House and the Senate was
military aid to Ukraine -- but Trump blocked that for months.
Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)
... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 23:54:31, 01 Dec 2019
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
--- Maximus/NT 3.01
* Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466)
