I know historically we changed seats 2 months after voting so people could have time to travel to Washington. But in this day, the new congress should be sworn in the next week. Don’t give the lawmakers a chance to pull random shit like this. Same in Texas, they’re trying to strip the incoming governors of power.
While the date can be (and has been) changed, states have their own deadline for certifying results. I don’t think any have passed that mark yet, and Alaska’s senator is still unknown. All of the winners are still technically predictions. Some states (like Georgia) often have a run-off election in January.
It can all be done, but has a lot of moving parts. It might be easier to keep Congress out of session unless certain circumstances are met, but I can easily see that being abused for the same partisan reasons.
They have lengthy recesses every year anyway; just move those recesses to Nov-Dec. and solve the problem that way, agreed.
Word is Dems may want to avoid one to prevent Trump recess appointments for the vacanct judge seats. Not sure what can be done about it though.
This bill cuts future disability benefits, codifies disability-rating reductions as a cost saving measure, places a cap on benefits, and raise VA home loan fees.
Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”, just let them own it and then come out talking about how Republicans unanimously screwed over Iran war veterans affordability from now until the end of time.
Not even sure why the main thing they’re complaining about is the “dirty tricks”,
The article you posted explains it:
Furious Democrats accused Republicans of playing “dirty pool.” They said Republicans pulled Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, away from the podium, where he was leading the Democratic side of the debate, in order to discuss changes to the bill. It was during that parley — while Takano was away from his microphone — that McDowell fast-tracked the proposal, they said.
“After publicly announcing a recorded vote on the TCAVA legislation, House Republicans asked if RM Takano and Democrats would agree to last minute engrossment corrections,” a Democratic leadership aide said.
“While members and staff were evaluating these changes away from the podium, House Republicans called the vote up and passed it by voice within seconds — depriving Democrats of the ability to even evaluate the proposed changes and ask for a recorded vote so Members could vote against the biggest cut to veterans benefits in US history,” the aide added.
“On Veterans Day of all days, using dirty tricks to steal from Veterans is a disgrace.”
Just use the fast track as proof they wanted to get the bill through because they knew screwing veterans wasn’t a popular thing to do. But totally agree, every bill that hurts someone, or every veto of a bill that helps someone, needs to be broadcast. Don’t just let them own it, scream at them asking why they hate Americans.
Oh and also some exit polls show that veterans voted 58% of veterans voted for Republicans this past election too.
Leopard food for thought.
You’d have thought he’d lost the votes of veterans after…
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Used the phrase suckers and losers
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Slashed VA benefits and budgets early on in first term
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Pissed on the sanctity of Arlington by having his people assault an Army employee so he could take campaign pics with grieving family members
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Listen here Veterans, your president wishes you were part of his so called “suckers and losers” squad so they don’t have to pay VA benefits. This clearly solidifies what he thinks of you all. Sorry, not sorry if you voted for this pedophile.
I don’t even want my benefits any more. They fired career women and trans members of the armed forces for… being women and trans (to say nothing of the overtly racist rules being put in place).
I was going to try to get my benefits, but why should I get something when they don’t? How is that fair? They can keep it, I don’t want it even if I need it. Fuck the VA, fuck tHe DEpaRtMEnt oF wAR.
designed to increase pay for disabled and injured veterans. Democrats opposed the GOP’s Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (TCAVA), saying it would expand some veterans’ benefits by slashing others
More dogshit reporting. If the story is “there are two competing bills”, the reporting needs to include the differences between the bills.
It even later says “the bill revises …”, which tells us nothing because the revision could be in a good direction or a bad direction. Like if youbare talking about the disability rating for tinnitus, you could say “it increases the rating” or it “decreases”, and it’s the same amount of words but actually describes what the bill would do.
