Sorry, not sorry. t.co/RMNGMW34nF
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) December 23, 2022
via republicbrief:
Congress this morning released a government funding bill that includes a rewrite of federal election laws, NBC reports. They expect to pass this bill by Friday.
The legislation comes only hours after the House’s Jan 6 committee made its recommendation to the DOJ which has no legal weight whatsoever, but to those who are not paying attention may seem valid. The House’s opinion is not in itself a threat, but a bill that passes is.
The current bill is a massive $1.7 trillion spending package that includes $44.9 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine, and $40.6 billion in disaster relief and would bar the use of TikTok on government devices for national security reasons. China has been found to be gathering information through TikTok, and government officials are already discouraged from using various forms of social media since the platforms came available.
the election legislation attached to the bill would revise the 1887 Electoral Count Act to clarify that the vice-president’s role is simply to count votes, and it would raise the threshold to force a vote to object to a state’s electoral votes from one member of the House and Senate to one-fifth of each chamber, NBC reports. This is seen as a way to do away with the measures then-President Trump attempted to use to address the 2020 election results.
Although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has sought to forestall the bill until next year, Democrats are determined to push it through quickly before Republicans are the majority in the House. McCarthy has pressured GOP lawmakers to vote against it, but the bill has more bipartisan support in the Senate and is expected to pass there, NBC reports.
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REMEMBER AND WORK TO REMOVE THEM IN PRIMARIES: 18 Senate Republicans Vote for $1.85 Trillion Omnibus Bill.
8 Senate Republicans voted for the trash $1.85 trillion omnibus bill to keep the government funded until September 2023:
- Roy Blunt, Missouri
- John Boozman, Arkansas
- Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
- Susan Collins, Maine
- John Cornyn, Texas
- Tom Cotton, Arkansas
- Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
- Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma
- Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
- Jerry Moran, Kansas
- Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
- Rob Portman, Ohio
- Mitt Romney, Utah
- Mike Rounds, South Dakota
- Richard Shelby, Alabama
- John Thune, South Dakota
- Roger Wicker, Mississippi
- Todd Young, Indiana
Three did not vote:
- John Barasso, Wyoming
- Richard Burr, North Carolina
- Kevin Cramer, North Dakota
Four voted against the bill after voting to advance it:
- Tommy Tuberville, Alabama
- Marco Rubio, Florida
- Chuck Grassley, Iowa
- Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi
The bill has 6,825 pages:
- 4,155 pages dedicated to legislation
- 2,670 pages for explanations
Attached to the bill are 4,000 earmarks for pet projects.
I’m going to puke.