McConnnels head comes out of it's turtle shell: BLOCKS HOUSE BILLS TO ROPEN GOVT!!
Has anyone heard from this prick in DAYS? I'm assuming he even BLOCKED the partial reopening portions of bills. He thinks they are 'SHOW VOTES'. Reopening Homeland Security is a show?
McConnell blocks House bills to reopen government
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 01/10/19 11:27 AM EST 4,685
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday blocked two House-passed funding bills that would reopen the federal government.
Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), surrounded by roughly two dozen of their Senate Democratic colleagues, tried to get consent to bring up a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through Feb. 8, as well as a separate package that would fund the remaining agencies without current-year appropriations through Sept. 30.
But McConnell objected, arguing they would be “show votes” and saying that he and Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) made an "explicit commitment" to avoid such votes.
“The last thing we need to do right now is trade pointless — absolutely pointless — show votes back and forth across the aisle,” McConnell said.
Under Senate rules, any senator can try to force a vote or pass a bill, but any one senator can block them.
The attempt by Democrats to pass the House bills comes as the partial government shutdown, which is impacting roughly a quarter of the federal government and is in its 20th day, is poised to break a record this weekend as the longest shutdown ever.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/424730-mcconnell-blocks-house-bills-to-reopen-government
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