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Same question again, why haven’t the “adult” Republicans spanked the obstructionist Democrats by ending the filibuster yet?
Republicans keep telling us America is with them, and they can fix what Obama broke, but wasted a year being blocked at every turn by the “America hating” liberals. How much longer will they make America suffer?
5 Answers
- BflowingLv 73 years ago
Ah, those with short term memory issues. Remember when the Democrats controlled the Senate, and the Republicans filibustered everything they could.
Actually, there is no filibuster going on now, the Republicans don't have enough votes to obtain a simple majority because of fractions among themselves.
- FoxholeLv 73 years ago
The GOP doesn't have enough votes to break a filibuster.
And the GOP hasn't been blocked at every turn as you claim. So far, they have:
1 - 35 billion to Puerto Rico for hurricane recovery
2 - appointed supreme court justice
3 - appointed 12 federal appeals judges (a historical record)
4 - passed tax reform bill
5 - recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital
6 - passed bill to repeal federal business regulations
7 - passed bill to improve appeals process of veteran benefits
8 - passed a bill to revitalize NASA
9 - began a campaign against slavery and human trafficking
10 - gave 500 million in small business loans for woman-owned businesses
11 - implemented his travel ban
12 - withdrew from the Paris Climate agreement
13 - withdrew from TPP
14 - declared public health emergency for the opioid epidemic
15 - ordered the first ever audit of the Department of Defense
16 - negotiated increased NATO support in Afghanistan
17 - reopened NAFTA for talks
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- ?Lv 73 years ago
Funny how liberals were crying about a government shutdown and acting like anything would be better than that when Obama was President isn't it. You must not read the papers very often since liberals haven't been able to block everything.