this should be required of every single piece of legislation in both houses.

[tanj]

You might as well be demanding the Senate have to dance the hulu naked while chanting Swahili poetry. It's just that nonsensical how you demand they be unable to function at all and mask your demand with the false description that it's just 'not quick and easy'.

I'd be wasting my time to talk to you any more.

i never said they shouldn't be able to do their job. and nothing I wrote would make them unable to function. quite the opposite. I wanted them to do their job efficiently and thoroughly. making their job easier is not a concern.

 

[tanj]

Everything in the American Rescue Plan is related to the purpose of Rescuing America.

it is being presented as a COVID relief bill. but the billions going to paying union pensions? a problem that pre-exists the COVID-19 Pandemic? this is typical of democrats to load up a vitally important and urgent bill with pet projects and pork barrel spending so that opposing it looks really bad and they can be said to not be interested in helping people.

 

[tanj]

The bill IS the "record" and reading with no one there served ZERO purpose. If you want to complain about "unrelated items" you should look at the last covid bill written entirely behind closed doors by the Republicans. It is over 5500 pages and would have taken days to read.

Several high-ticket items won inclusion, including an almost 400-page water resources bill that targets $10 billion for 46 Army Corps of Engineers flood control, environmental and coastal protection projects. There was also $7 billion to increase access to broadband, $4 billion to help other nations vaccinate their people, $14 billion for cash-starved transit systems, Amtrak and airports.
And then there were the smaller items stowed away in the thousands of pages — important to some lawmakers, but unlikely to win coveted floor time in a freestanding bill.
One section repealed a variety of little-known criminal penalties for minor violations, including the transportation of the water hyacinths and the use of the Swiss coat of arms. The section also decriminalizes the unauthorized application of theft prevention decals or devices, and the unauthorized use of the 4-H Club emblem, the “Smokey Bear” character or name, the “Woodsy Owl” character, name or slogan, or “The Golden Eagle Insignia.”
Though most of the items were listed in lengthy bill summaries, it was unlikely that most lawmakers would even know those things were there.
“Here are the 5,593 pages of language which I’m now perusing and on which we’ll be voting in about six hours,” tweeted Minnesota Rep. Dean Phillips, a Democrat who worked on the virus relief compromise.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/...tems/507-8eed8154-8404-496c-a201-e86f3436329b

i oppose unrelated items in legislation, no matter who is doing it.

 

[tanj]

The text of the legislation in question was posted online on the 24th of February if you wanted to read it.

Text - H.R.1319 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Text for H.R.1319 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

www.congress.gov

BTW, How many times did the Republicans demand the same partisan stunt when trump was in office, or aren't we supported to notice Ron Johnson's hypocrisy?

I have no idea. I oppose unrelated items in legislation no matter who is doing it.

 

[Gaius46]

i never said they shouldn't be able to do their job. and nothing I wrote would make them unable to function. quite the opposite. I wanted them to do their job efficiently and thoroughly. making their job easier is not a concern.

Efficiency and ease often go hand-in-hand.

 

[post]

There are two kinds of bills, ones that result in further wealth - influence concentration or bills that reverse that concentration.

The title of the thread should be amended to match reality,
release of a stink bomb by the minority caucus should be required of every single piece of legislation in both houses.

 

[Craig234]

i never said they shouldn't be able to do their job. and nothing I wrote would make them unable to function.

" I'd be wasting my time to talk to you any more. "