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The bills never got a chance to make it into discussion in the Senate. What was Reid scared of?
What a slash & dash, Hack.
We know exactly what Harry Reid was afraid of. He was afraid of putting his Democrats in the Senate on record with VOTES ...... it's exactly why each and every one of them is running like scared little Rabbits from Obama and Reid today.
Reid was afraid of the 2010 Election ... and then
Reid was afraid of the 2012 Election ... and then
Reid was afraid of the 2014 Election ..... and now
He is just out of time - he doubled down once too often, and he will lose his Gavel.
Not a minute too soon. I thought I'd seen the worst of the worst in the US Senate, but Harry Reid is one for the History books. The most corrupt Majority Leader of the Senate in my lifetime.
Ever wonder why congress gets nothing accomplished? Over the past two years, there have been 56 bills introduced in the House to defund Obamacare. (this number comes from a local congressman who brags about voting for them) They knew that none would pass, but would rather spend time on that instead of things that could pass. I'm no supporter of the ACA either, but wasting time on 56 bills that you know won't pass? What a worthless bunch of leeches.
What a silly complaint. Do you have any idea how many bills have been introduced in the House? Take a guess..
Ready?
5,670. Bills to defund Obamacare comprised one tenth of one percent of legislative activity.
Actually the ACA is heavily based upon a Conservative healthcare plan that was dreamed up to fight against the idea of universal healthcare. Basically its just barely good enough......to keep us from getting universal healthcare like other countries that results in better healthcare costs.
the Republican plan involved tax CREDITS and individual savings accounts, not at all similar to ACA..
Actually lets get even more damning. You say 5,670 bills were introduced. of those only 484 actually got a vote. Meaning those repeal votes actually made up a significant % of the bills voted on.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
Feel free to get back to trying to mislead people. But the facts are, they spent way too much time on this-knowing over and over they would fail.
for those that want congress to "get things done", then you have to get rid of the one guy in congress that is blocking everything, harry reid. dump his butt from the senate, and things will start to open up and congress can start doing its job again.
Hmm. I don't remember Harry Reid wasting the time of the taxpayers, congressional staff, capitol employees and mucho taxpayer $$$$ reading Green Eggs and Ham and quoting Star wars for hours on end.
Who could that have been? Wait, let me think. Texas...Tea Party...Crazy--oh right, it was Ted Cruz.
Go talk to the senate and ask Harry Reid and the dems why the bills weren't allowed on the floor...Congress did it's job in representing the people,Reid and the democrat senate refused to hear the bills thus denying a vote to be taken. That's not the way things are suppose to work and while you seem ignorant of the function of the houses the rest of America knows the score..
The upcoming elections will reflect that...
Since the talk is blame Reid, how many bills made it out of Committee. How many were blocked by a lone Senator. How many were blocked from the floor after it made it out of Comm. Which party blocked the most. Which party stopped the appointment process the most. How many Republican Senators blocked house bills, that they knew if passed they could lose their own election.
Since the talk is blame Reid, how many bills made it out of Committee. How many were blocked by a lone Senator. How many were blocked from the floor after it made it out of Comm. Which party blocked the most. Which party stopped the appointment process the most. How many Republican Senators blocked house bills, that they knew if passed they could lose their own election.
Politics folks, not for the weak.
They have to come off the table to go into committee.
A lone senator cannot block a bill from vote. A bill has to make it to committee to make it out of committee to even be filibustered and the Republicans have never had the power to filibuster anything.
Reid and the democrats have blocked by tabling more bills than any other senate in the history of the USA.
No party stopped anything. There was no compromise, from either side of the isle.
Republicans and democrats pass or don't pass bills. Blocking can never happen in the system of checks & balances, unless something is way out of balance. That is why there is a 2/3rds vote.
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