Government Shutdown

[Shikaka]

Way to trigger all the Tumblr users who also happen to be controllers.

It's somewhere between a passion and hobby of mine.

 

[Billybob]

According to WaPo the bill is facing one last hurdle. Mitch Mcconnell is asking for a “Tony Montana” supply of cocaine while Nancy Pelosi is arguing for “so much liquor they call me Jim Lahey”. Congress is allegedly supposed to vote tomorrow

 

[32andBelow]

How does 1 senator hold it up when 99 others could vote yes?

 

[CF]

According to WaPo the bill is facing one last hurdle. Mitch Mcconnell is asking for a “Tony Montana” supply of cocaine while Nancy Pelosi is arguing for “so much liquor they call me Jim Lahey”. Congress is allegedly supposed to vote tomorrow

Actually it’s Pat Toomey trying to hamstring the fed that’s holding things up right now.

 

[Counterclockwise]

According to WaPo the bill is facing one last hurdle. Mitch Mcconnell is asking for a “Tony Montana” supply of cocaine while Nancy Pelosi is arguing for “so much liquor they call me Jim Lahey”. Congress is allegedly supposed to vote tomorrow

She is the liquor!

 

[32andBelow]

Actually it’s Pat Toomey trying to hamstring the fed that’s holding things up right now.

So why can’t they pass it 99-1?

 

[Shikaka]

How does 1 senator hold it up when 99 others could vote yes?

I swear I explained this before, it's an internal rule to the Senate established to enforce cooperation across parties. That's how 1 can hold up the entire vote

 

[Mike Kilo]

I swear I explained this before, it's an internal rule to the Senate established to enforce cooperation across parties. That's how 1 can hold up the entire vote

Yah but how?

 

[Roobert]

Yah but how?

Because.

 

[Termine]

Yah but how?

Each House of Congress votes on rules for themselves when they all meet for the first time. I don't know the whole details right now and I don't feel like looking it up, but I think the rule they agreed on for this situation is: you have to have unanimous consent to do a shortened version of debate on a bill. Otherwise they go through the whole process where each member gets however many minutes to go down in front of the cameras and grandstand, times however many amendments they want to add, and then they vote on it.

Once they get to the actual voting part it doesn't need to be unanimous, but the vote to allow them to bypass all the grandstanding has to be unanimous.

That's my fuzzy understanding.

 

[32andBelow]

I swear I explained this before, it's an internal rule to the Senate established to enforce cooperation across parties. That's how 1 can hold up the entire vote

I thought 60 can vote to end debate? If 1 guy could do this they could literally derail any bill. Why wouldn’t dems to this against confirmations.

Cloture is 60 votes.

 

[Shikaka]

Yah but how?

Idfk, all I know is corporate money comes in and the little guy gets fucked. It's like when a supe tries to tell you a rule is different than what is written because "that's not the intent/interpretation"

I thought 60 can vote to end debate? If 1 guy could do this they could literally derail any bill. Why wouldn’t dems to this against confirmations.

It's not for every bill, it's for very specific issues such as CRs.

This is a basics of both the house and senate, they vote on internal rules which you won't find commonplace.

Cloture is 60 votes.

Not applicable to the internal rules in effect.

 

[32andBelow]

Not applicable to the internal rules in effect.

They can change the internal rules at any time. So they can all hold this L if there is a Shutdown

 

[Shikaka]

They can change the internal rules at any time. So they can all hold this L if there is a Shutdown

Generally that's the consensus, Congress has sucked for quite a while

 

[Logical_Mongoose]

I mean, who blames a librarian? Just trying to keep the masses literate...

Punk ass book jockeys!

 

[Billybob]

Also, to get back on topic: Apparently they took a big step forward in the negotiations last night. Might need another 48hr CR to finalize and vote the bill, but it seems to be "closer" to finalizing. Don't shoot the messenger

 

[32andBelow]

Also, to get back on topic: Apparently they took a big step forward in the negotiations last night. Might need another 48hr CR to finalize and vote the bill, but it seems to be "closer" to finalizing. Don't shoot the messenger

Yah they’d trying to cripple the fed so Biden can’t fix the economy as easily.

 

[Morgan_Freeman_But_Not]

Meant to select the option to notify everyone...The Office, Parks & Rec, B99, etc. have been moved: The Great Sitcom War

 

[Mike Kilo]

Meant to select the option to notify everyone...The Office, Parks & Rec, B99, etc. have been moved: The Great Sitcom War

It should be a goal to make the mods start new threads and move all our posts from this thread daily. We need a new topic now.......

 

[32andBelow]

It should be a goal to make the mods start new threads and move all our posts from this thread daily. We need a new topic now.......

Then de list them from the front page so they die