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(4,448 posts)He's clearly not doing his job.
400 laws and he's blocked every single one. That's not what the founders intended and surely there is a check/balance against this abuse of power.
leftieNanner
(15,114 posts)Senators cannot be impeached. They can be forced to resign, if they have any shred of conscience or dignity, which we know The Turtle doesn't possess. The only way to remove a Senator is to vote them out.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Each house has to power to deal with its own members. The House impeached Senator Blount in 1797, but the Senate dismissed the impeachment and later voted to expel him.
The Constitution does not explicitly limit the House's power of impeachment.
leftieNanner
(15,114 posts)I thought the reason we all laughed at The Orange One when he insisted that Mitt Romney should be impeached - other than we all think Trump is an idiot - is that Mitt couldn't be. I stand corrected.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)though. He cooperates on some things that he doesn't feel have a political cost to him, advantage to us, or cost to the people he serves. All through this "broken" period, congress has quietly been passing some things through. But not ones voters have heard of and have an opinion about.
The reality is more than terrible enough, because the Republicans are intensely corrupt and power-seeking above all. Those bills alive and held captive include many very important bills, including, of course, our giant anti-corruption and voter protection bill, the first one passed after our Democratic caucus became the majority in January.
These are just a sampling of the hundreds waiting for the 2021 congress to be passed:
H.R. 1: For the People Act
"The For the People Act was House Democrats first major legislative package introduced in the new Congress. ... The package requires states to provide an online option for voter registration and allow voters to register the same day they go to the polls. It would also require states to automatically register citizens who dont register themselves. To protect elections from any foreign meddling, the bill mandates that states use paper ballots and that the Department of Homeland Security evaluate threats to election systems 180 days prior to an election and inform states of their conclusions. The bill includes campaign finance and ethics reform measures, including mandating presidential candidates release their tax returns. And much more.
H.R. 5: The Equality Act for LGBTQ,
H.R. 6: The American Dream and Promise Act, for Dreamers,
H.R. 7: The Paycheck Fairness Act,
H.R. 8: The Bipartisan Background Checks Act,
H.R. 9: The Climate Action Now Act,
H.R. 987: The Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act (the one Sanders voted against because improving the ACA would threaten his chief campaign issue),
H.R. 1585: The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act
H.R. 1644: The Save the Internet Act (one Republican voted for this. Like so many other laws "for the people," it's THAT good. )
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)H.R. 1?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That's the main one that would send them to prison for many SOP tactics that they so carefully made legal. Poor things, caught between depowered kleptocrats with plenty of "dirt" on them and the will of the people.
mnhtnbb
(31,391 posts)in the country before the 2020 election and really focused on the states where elections for Senator are in play.
Beat the drum mercilessly. "We heard you in 2018. The House has been doing its job. Send _______________ to the Senate from ____________
and the work wiil get done if we can turn control of the Senate from Republicans to Democrats.
Keep the message short and simple. Democrats are working for you. Republicans don't care about democracy.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)Which is, of course, utter nonsense.