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* The biggest challenge Congress has is the obstructionist policies of the GOP! They would rather burn the country to the ground than tax the wealthiest 1% at appropriate rates! We need to, as a nation, REJECT the politics of the regressives and elect people into office next year who will DO THEIR JOBS!
* No one ever envisioned a legislator or political party so obstructionist that whenever it fails to get its own way on whatever issue threatens to shut down or cause a shut down of the government and cause havoc whether for individual Americans, the nation as a whole, its economy or the world economy.
* No one ever envisioned a legislator or political party so obstructionist that whenever it fails to get its own way on whatever issue threatens to shut down or cause a shut down of the government and cause havoc whether for individual Americans, the nation as a whole, its economy or the world economy.
* well they do have all those jobs bills. and hey they have to vote to repeal Obama care for the 67th time. and lets never forget abortion, which they put into every bill so they never will pass
* Not one of the GOP presidential hopefuls has much appeal for purple states.
* "We don't have the votes to defund Planned Parenthood. So, we're going to shut down the government until we do."
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McConnell Admits Republicans Don't Have The Votes To Defund Planned Parenthood
"The Senate Democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things."
By Laura Barron-Lopez, September 1, 2015Republican efforts to defund family health care provider Planned Parenthood will fall flat in Congress as long a Democrat is in the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday.
Before Congress left for summer recess last month, McConnell pushed through a procedural vote that would have stripped federal funds from the provider.
"We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome we like," he said during an interview with Kentucky TV station WYMT. "The president has the pen. If he doesn’t sign it, it doesn’t happen. We voted on that already in the Senate and we will vote on it again."
Giving Kentuckians a lesson on constitutional procedure, McConnell stressed the limits of the legislative branch.
"I would remind all of your viewers: The way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it," he said. "The president has made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood."
Averting a government shutdown, McConnell said in the wide-ranging interview, will be the most immediate concern facing Congress when it returns from its August recess.
Senate Democrats have pressed the Republican majority for budget negotiations since before the summer recess, threatening to block spending bills that don't lift sequestration caps on domestic programs. Republicans, McConnell said, have worked to only lift the caps on defense spending.
"The Senate Democrats have a big enough number to prevent us from doing things," he said. "They prevented us from doing any of the bills that appropriate money for the government, thereby forcing a negotiation when we go back in after Labor Day, which I’ll be engaged in with the administration and others to try to sort out how much we’re going to spend and where we’re going to spend it."
To get a Republican president, McConnell added, the party will need to pick a nominee that "can appeal to purple states."
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