Trumppers… huge win for Walker?

[evince]

https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-...r-senate-dems/



The biggest impacts could be felt in Senate committees, three experts said.

The chamber’s 2021 power-sharing agreement evenly split committee membership between Democrats and Republicans. Vice President Kamala Harris can break tie votes on the Senate floor, but she cannot vote in committee. So whenever senators deadlocked on a vote, Democrats had to spend floor time discharging nominees or bills from committees.

Committee work has been affected too. Committee staff and budgets have been split evenly between parties, stretching the majority’s staffers relatively thin. And Democrats have been constrained from issuing subpoenas, which typically require a committee or subcommittee majority vote.

The extra vote also gives Democrats a cushion for the worst-case scenario: a senator getting sick, dying, resigning or otherwise leaving the chamber. Covid-19-related absences were a recurring issue for Democrats over the past two years. At least two Democrats — Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico — were hospitalized this year.

[evince]

With 51 votes, Democrats can conduct investigations of their own, including some that may act as counterprogramming to Republicans in the House. They also can pick up Democratic House probes that likely will be cut off by a Republican majority, such as the January 6th investigation or a probe into Big Oil’s climate disinformation campaigns.

For the most part, Democrats have not been able to use subpoena power. Each panel has its own rules on subpoenas, but almost all of them require a majority committee vote. The exception was the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee, where the chair retained unilateral subpoena power.

But even that exception proved the rule. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), the subcommittee’s chair, collaborated with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the panel’s ranking member, earlier this year when he subpoenaed the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“The Senate is not really typically a very partisan place. So these committees, when they function well, tend to be somewhat bipartisan,” said Binder, a George Washington University political science professor.

Now, Democrats will have committee majorities and can move forward without GOP approval. At least in theory.

[gfm7175]

If you think I am not a real person, why are you even responding to me?

You are a traitor.

It's fun to play with you from time to time. It's easy to do, since your responses are rather programmed.

[AProudLefty]

It's fun to play with you from time to time. It's easy to do, since your responses are rather programmed.

So now I am a real person?

You are a schizo so it is easy to know why you are easily confused. You cannot tell the difference between real or imagined people.

[evince]

With 51 votes, Democrats can conduct investigations of their own, including some that may act as counterprogramming to Republicans in the House. They also can pick up Democratic House probes that likely will be cut off by a Republican majority, such as the January 6th investigation or a probe into Big Oil’s climate disinformation campaigns.

For the most part, Democrats have not been able to use subpoena power. Each panel has its own rules on subpoenas, but almost all of them require a majority committee vote. The exception was the investigations subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Oversight Committee, where the chair retained unilateral subpoena power.

But even that exception proved the rule. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), the subcommittee’s chair, collaborated with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the panel’s ranking member, earlier this year when he subpoenaed the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

“The Senate is not really typically a very partisan place. So these committees, when they function well, tend to be somewhat bipartisan,” said Binder, a George Washington University political science professor.

Now, Democrats will have committee majorities and can move forward without GOP approval. At least in theory.

INVESTIGATIONS

the Republican Party can’t shut down the investigations into their crimes folks

[Matt Dillon]

Guess who keep calling people Commies? Yep you guessed it right... Nazis.

[Matt Dillon]

INVESTIGATIONS

the Republican Party can’t shut down the investigations into their crimes folks

"Republicans" could shut down every last piece of leftist shit in The United States of America if they wanted to. A lot of POS blood would be flowing everywhere.

And you know what? Fuck all Anti-American pieces of shit like you. I ain't sayin' I want you dead, but I'm tired of your bullshit, liar leftist deshy. Bah Fongu, you rotten-ass stupid cunt!

[gfm7175]

So now I am a real person?

You are a real person with a programmed NPC-like mind. That's why I call you an NPC. I realize that you can't figure this out for yourself because you only know what you have been programmed with.

You are a schizo so it is easy to know why you are easily confused. You cannot tell the difference between real or imagined people.

You are now describing Dutch Uncle.

[AProudLefty]

You are a real person with a programmed NPC-like mind. That's why I call you an NPC. I realize that you can't figure this out for yourself because you only know what you have been programmed with.

You are locked in a paradox. You need to resolve it, dude.

[gfm7175]

You are locked in a paradox. You need to resolve it, dude.

Mockery.

[AProudLefty]

Mockery.

Yep. You are mocking yourself.