Oh and what I’m about to say isn’t the first time or the last time I’ll say it:
Filabuster needs to go back to the original way. You don’t like a bill, well you get to stand up and talk till you drop. Then the next. once everyone has had their say . . . the bill moves on for a vote. Wonder if all 47 that voted against the R’s bill would have stood and talked till they dropped or if it would have only been a few.
Wonder how many republicans would stand up and talk till they drop on the other bill.
I’m not sure what you are arguing. Dem’s voted in the Senate to keep the government open in December with - IIRC - 98 to 0 support for a Bipartisan bill for clean appropriations and a CR for DHS. The Dem’s have voted repeatedly in the House to provide appropriations and a CR for DHS. It’s Trump and McConnell that were keeping the government shut down.
Now today there was a vote in the Senate on Trumps proposal and the House bill. The house bill got MORE vote than the GOP bill did and the GOP are in the majority in the Senate. Your own article says 51-47 vs. 52-44 (wonder who the two non-voting Senators were for the House bill.)
While I agree with you about the filabuster, I also think that bills should be able to stand on their own merit and be voted on independently. The wall is a policy decision and should pass for fail based on its merits and not just because Trump is holding federal and federal contract workers hostages financially. DACA should be a separate bill and pass or fail on it’s own merits.
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Two competing bills. BOTH would have payed the Coast Guard. BOTH failed. D’s voting agains the R bill that would have. R’s voting against the D bill that would have.
Another way to say that is D’s and 6 R’s voted on a bill that would open the government and pay employees whose pay is being held hostage by Trump.
Open the government and let Wall legislation pass or fail on it’s own merits. Stop holding employees who have nothing to do with the wall hostage.
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