michaeljray2210.bsky.social
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Making them vote on things is how you slow things down. It then makes no difference whether the vote is 53–47 or 100–0. Business as usual would be confirming these by unanimous consent.
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32/100 is a C now? Grade inflation strikes again.
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FWIW these particular provisions were all in the original text, so version control tech wouldn’t be much help in finding it; you just have to read the bill!
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Nothing like that, really, but it’s easy to see on Congress.gov what amendments have been made to a bill.
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The information is all out there for anyone who wants it; the problem is that many members simply do not care.
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The House’s proprietary Comparative Print Suite, released in 2022, allows members to compare versions of a bill.
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Bill text is prepared by the House Office of Legislative Counsel using XMetaL.
Some members have text basically ready to go, while others need more drafting help, but the final document is always prepared by OLC so that it can be processed by the Government Publishing Office more easily.
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That doesn't prevent the nomination from being confirmed.
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Lol the minority puts a hold on every judicial nomination these days. It doesn't stop them from being confirmed.
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That one weird trick is called getting more votes.
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Yes, but only after it was clear that those nominees didn't have the votes to be confirmed anyway.
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Democrats brought this bill up! They expected Republicans to object to it.
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She is appointed by the president. That used to be common for other legislative branch officers too; Congress has slowly been bringing those officers under its control (e.g., the Architect of the Capitol two years ago), but not the Librarian of Congress yet.
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Not sure why you're tagging the Democrats on the Agriculture Committee...
The relevant committees are the House Administration Committee and the Senate Rules and Administration Committee – Morelle and Klobuchar have said what they're going to do.
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Just go to archive.ph and enter the link to the page you want to see. It works for nearly all newspapers.
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He is; he just has principles, unlike the rest of the Republican Party.
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December 20, 2019
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This is just the first recorded usage that we know of, not necessarily the origin. Almost certainly a coincidence.
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It's important to be able to distinguish between those who don't like any of the candidates from those who are just lazy.
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Just in the interim, while they pick a new ranking member.
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Yes, the Constitution allows the House and Senate to go into secret session.
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Unpaywalled ⬇️ (and you're not giving them advertising revenue)
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Yes, impeachment resolutions are privileged.
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Why can't it be handled by the airports themselves (with strict regulation by the government), like every other country in the world does it?
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Individual senators cannot issue a subpoena.
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Applies to most legislatures.
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It was Mike Bost at the time.
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The Senate does not impeach; it convicts.
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Well, that's what this is really about. It's not a physical autopen, just OFR adding an image of the president’s signature to the published document.
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She has never missed a vote in her entire Senate career.
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The screenshot is the vote on the rule for the CR.
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A 'continuing resolution' is formally a bill, not a resolution.
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Boehner → Ryan in 2015.
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McConnell was a good minority leader; Schumer was a good majority leader. Very rare to have leaders who are equally effective in the majority and the minority (Pelosi was the major exception).
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Nothing that they haven't been doing all this time -- voting against cloture. It's just that it actually matters now.
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This is just the rule, not the CR itself. The minority never votes for rules these days.
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She didn't run for reelection!
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The minority *never* votes for rules.
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This is the rule providing for consideration of three bills, including the CR.
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The minority *never* votes for rules.
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The minority votes against all special rules anyway.
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Welcome to Congress.
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If Democrats weren't blocking, then they wouldn't need to have rollcall votes on these things at all.
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Cloture on nominations is by a simple majority.
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Yeah, the House calls members whatever they want to be called.
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The way the Senate is run nowadays – it's dead.
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The catch is that the 60-vote cloture threshold also prevents the Democrats from doing good things when they're in the majority.
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Senators do not make that distinction nowadays.
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On all legislation, with only a few exceptions.
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No, proportional representation is the important part.