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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans are telling me they plan to force Senate clerks to read the full $1.9 trillion relief...
That alone could take 10 hours even before votes begin
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Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Every additional hour they take is an hour of additional time that people need to wait to get help. But this is all a game to them.
captain queeg
(10,226 posts)KarenS
(4,083 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)That's ALL they got.
I just wished the media would portray it as such.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's even slopped over into the Democratic caucus, where Rep. Kurt Schraeder of Oregon, ostensibly a Democrat, voted against the House bill because there's too much in the bill that isn't dedicated to Covid relief.
sop
(10,226 posts)padah513
(2,504 posts)I say let's get started then. The sooner we get started, the sooner we finish. Beat those devils at their own silly game.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Whip John Thune estimates that will add 10 hours to COVID-relief floor time, will come on top of 20 hours of scheduled debate time.
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)taking part in or supporting insurrection? Let's be cleaning out the riff-raff chaff!
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)It takes a 2/3 majority of the Senate. Where would that come from, do you suppose.
Proposing things that will not happen is not helpful.
nykym
(3,063 posts)If you want it read out loud you have to stay in your seat the entire time no bathroom breaks no cellphone use and NO TALKING amongst yourselves. Now shut up and listen.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)Johnson (R-Idiot) did not specify what language. That would drive them nuts.
StClone
(11,686 posts)...in русский russkiy (Russian).
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)They gain nothing. And lose everything. What a pitiful party.
Vinca
(50,300 posts)class America. I wish people would wake the fuck up and see what they really are.
tanyev
(42,594 posts)and no fiddling with their phones.