McConnell blocks Senate Democrats' move to reopen government
FFS!!! Let's remove the Turdles source of income and see how he likes it!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/10/politics/senate-blocks-vote-congress-shutdown/index.html
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a move by Senate Democrats on Thursday to get the chamber to vote on spending bills to reopen the government on day 20 of the ongoing partial shutdown.
In a back-and-forth on the Senate floor, Senate Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, on Thursday called for the Senate to take up legislation advanced by House Democrats to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government and argued that parts of the federal government not related to the border wall should be re-opened immediately as negotiations continue over the border wall, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell objected to the move, saying that "political stunts are not going to get us anywhere."
McConnell has made clear that he won't take up any legislation related to the shutdown in the Senate that President Donald Trump won't sign. And the President has dug in in his refusal to sign legislation that does not meet his demand for roughly $5 billion for a border wall, which Democrats refuse to provide.
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Who'd a thunk?
Back to the saying: "FOLLOW THE MONEY!"
McTurtle knows ALL about the money, especially the rubles.
Money flowed to the Repugs, IQ45's campaign, and the NRA. McTurtle knows ALL about ALL of those tracks.
Think that's nuts? Answer this:
Why did he refuse to allow PRESIDENT Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court a hearing?
Why did he refuse to allow PRESIDENT Obama to disclose secret information regarding Russian interference in the 2016 elections?
Why is he now hiding in his shell somewhere?
If IQ45 goes down, McTurtle goes down.
THAT is why he will do anything and everything to protect IQ45, citizens of the USA be damned!
Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, just so IQ-45 could stack the SC with right-wing zealots?
THAT kind of political stunt, and playing politics, McTurtle? Fuck off and die you greasy weasel. 
The senate RETHUGS will not stop him!!!
and it seemed they could do that to force the bill for consideration! 
See this for some links - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11633354
And in the case of the Senate, their method of "discharge" mainly applies to non-controversial stuff like publicly honoring a notable figure or naming post offices. I.e., things that no one would object to so these items would normally be passed "by unanimous consent". Alternately, the only other way is via application of the "Congressional Review Act", which allows both chambers of congress to review regulation changes and jointly act on them if they believe it the scope of the rule goes beyond what they intended for the agency (and thus speed the process to vote on any legislation that would forestall implementation of the offending rules).
This is different from the process in the House where if a majority (generally 218) of the members in the House want to immediately consider legislation that is being held in committee (by the chair and often per request of the Speaker) signs a "discharge petition" (as a privileged request) and a vote to discharge the measure is successful, then the bill will need to be brought out of committee and scheduled for consideration on the floor. I believe there is a waiting period of 30 days though before that can be done.
