Action on guns and immigration screeches to a halt in Congress

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY SCOTT WONG AND MIKE LILLIS - 03/05/18 06:00 AM EST

Legislating on Capitol Hill is quickly screeching to a halt, despite loud calls for action on guns and immigration.

Even as student survivors of the high school shooting in Florida clamor for action on gun control and young “Dreamers” diverge on Congress to protest their possible deportation, Republicans in the House are pivoting to messaging bills and away from the hot-button issues that have dominated the first two months of the year.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled that his chamber would not take up gun reform this week. Instead, the Senate will take up a banking reform bill, even after President Trump challenged lawmakers to pass a sweeping background checks bill in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.

On immigration, a federal court order blocking President Trump’s effort to end an Obama-era program protecting Dreamers, immigrants brought into the country illegally as children, has taken the pressure off Congress to act.


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/376533-action-on-gun-and-immigration-screeches-to-a-halt-in-congress

[kacekwl]

1. Looks like the stuffed cabbage McConnell and his

useless criminal crew in congress along with the Russian NRA win again. Please let everyone you know to vote these crooks out.

[lark]

2. Dems should filibuster every bill until these important ones are brought up.

Fuck McConnell and his russian repugs, just don't play their game.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. The greed of the wealthy is more powerful than thousands of dead Americans

So tell me now how greed is good? It's more important that Putin is still able to feed Russia's stolen wealth to the already rich and that gun manufacturers are able to sell their lethal weapons to everyone, than it is to stop the daily massacre of over 1,000 Americans a month.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They want to get rid of Dodd-Frank and to hell with anything else.

People had BETTER get their asses out to vote in November to remove the scourge from Congress.

[Scarsdale]

5. Well, they do not want

to discuss immigration when Maleria's status, plus that of her Communist parents are questionable. How could she be considered for an Exceptionally Qualified visa?

[SergeStorms]

8. At one time....

she was "exceptionally qualified" at giving Trump's teeny-weeny an erection (although intelligence reports say there is no difference in size of the flaccid vs. engorged Trump member). Reports have come in that those "qualifications" expired the day she gave birth to little Barron Trump, however.

As for her communist parents, it's said "they know where the polonium is buried".

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Again, Congress fails to do their job...nt

[CanonRay]

7. Banking reform

is like tax "reform", it just means more money for the already wealthy.