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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Why wont ABC,CBS,NBC report the fact that Reid has tabled so many bills passed by congress?

Isnt that obstructing the will of the people? Didnt congress vote to repeal obamacare--------but Reid WONT ALLOW IT on the senate floor. Isnt that obstruction?

Update:

yes i am bias--------but how did republicans fillibuster anything when the dems HAD SUPER MAJORITY?--------you biased too?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    Technically the House passed the bill. Congress is both the House and the Senate.

    And this is nothing new. Reid's Senate didn't pass any budget or economic bills when The Democrats controlled both the Senate and The House

    Reid has no problem destroying the economy as long as he thinks he can blame Republicans for it.

  • 10 years ago

    There was already a vote in the Senate to repel the Health Care Reform Bill in February 2011, it failed.

    And considering the small handful of other bills the GOP House has passed they should be tabled, they're garbage. For example the Ryan Budget Bill.

    And you are flat out wrong about the Democrats having a super majority. They never did. A super majority would be 67%. For 2 years the Democrats had a simple majority in the House and the Senate was split 49-49-2. There were no 'super majorities' in either the House nor the Senate.

  • 10 years ago

    Odd. When I searched Fox News, which should be all over this massive number of bills, I didn't find any more articles about it than on the "lamestream media".

    Meanwhile, please explain to us the difference between tabling a bill and filibustering it? The results are the same, though I doubt you will admit it. Both actions block a bill from being voted on.And since the Republicans have filibustered.....

    Pot, meet kettle, although you're actually a lot bigger than the kettle.

    Edit: The Demos had their SUPERMAJORITY for exactly nine months. Then, in October 2009 Ted Kennedy died and was replaced by Scott Brown, at which point, the GOP began filibustering at a rate never before seen in history. Go ahead and pretend that this allowed more votes to occur than Reid tabling some of them.

  • TK
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Why doesn't C-SPAN, for example, have a data base keeping track of these legislative matters so that we can bypass any media outlet and get that information for ourselves? With or without editorial content or, better yet, with editorial input from a Democrat, a Republican and an Independent on each bill that gets killed in the House or Senate.

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  • 10 years ago

    Because those bills have Republican-supported ideas that help the country and NOT raise taxes.

    This "Fawning- tingling Obama Media Bias" has been going on for almost his entire presidential term. As if they WANT to see Republicans in a bad light as the 'Party of No' spin. THen all you see/hear on news stations is "how those mean-evil Republicans/Tea Partiers are "BLOCKING" all of Obamas' plans".

    As if the Republicans HAVE the power to "block" anything!

    Childish isnt it?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The Senate (where Reid works) is one Half of Congress. If the Senate doesn't pass a bill, it doesn't pass. Just because a bill passes the House of Representatives doesn't mean it has passed Congress! You are seriously misinformed.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    hahahaha.

    Coming from the party that has set two new filibuster records, beating their own filibuster records.

    After 3 years of nothing but obstruction from the GOP, suddenly you’re upset that the MAJORITY in the Senate chooses to exercise it’s rights?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    lmfao! Republicans filibustered 90 BILLS in the Senate in 2009 and 2010, and THAT was not reported by the media either! You are unreal. This question is unbelievable.

    You idiot when Scott Brown won the Dems lost the supermajority.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They don't want to show who the true party of "no" is.

    They are in the tank for the dems and BHO, they would never willingly show them in a bad lite.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    There so in the tank for BHO an the left I don't even watch them anymore.

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