GOP Sen. Ron Johnson to force Senate clerks to read text of $1.9 trillion covid-relief bill
Source: Washington Post
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) will force Senate clerks to read aloud the entire $1.9 trillion covid-relief bill, delaying debate on it by about 10 hours. I will make them read their 600-700 page bill, Johnson said, detailing his plan during an interview on a Milwaukee conservative talk radio show.
He also said he plans to force votes on a huge number of amendments to prolong the debate by several days.We need to keep this process going, so we can highlight how this is not covid relief, how this is a boondoggle for Democrats, he said. Its a Democrat wish list setting things up for an even more socialist society, and it needs to be resisted and Im going to lead the effort to resist it.
Johnson said hes forcing the drawn-out process in hopes of slicing hundreds of billions of dollars from the final bill. Hell need at least a dozen GOP senators on the floor with him to keep the amendments going, he said. By forcing the reading of the bill and then unlimited amendments, Johnson said it could be Sunday before the Senate votes on final passage.
The bill is publicly popular, even among Republicans, but Johnson argued that was because the Democrats tout the $1,400 relief checks in the bill, and not that it was mortgaging our kids future.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/03/joe-biden-live-updates/#link-FEJ2FZJHRZBSZDUZCOX2XAQYOE
2022 Wisconsin. 2022.
Full headline: GOP Sen. Ron Johnson to force Senate clerks to read text of $1.9 trillion covid-relief bill, a process that could last 10 hours
Rebl2
(13,442 posts)Should force HIM to read it!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,816 posts)Hotler
(11,392 posts)Dakota Flint
(219 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,937 posts)you read the entire text sir.
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)Just Amendments that need to be voted on.
Sneederbunk
(14,275 posts)Mickju
(1,796 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Hes nothing but a Russian tool.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,480 posts)BadgerKid
(4,549 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,867 posts)And set it at 2X.
bdamomma
(63,788 posts)was he at the Jan 5th meeting???? I didn't hear the GQP offering to help Americans when they are dying 500,000+. What the hell is a "boondoggle".
Hey Johnson what do you offer Americans???? I thought so a BIG nothing.
JohnnyRingo
(18,614 posts)Republicans may have lost their spines, but solid unyielding partisan cartilage has grown in it's place. That's how they're still able to stand up to progress when a Democrat is in office.
How many of their constituents get up at town halls and say: "don't you be bringing none of that pork around here!"?
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,876 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)FirstLight
(13,355 posts)I guess Im a dufus when it comes to procedure so forgive me. (Ironically my daughter is majoring in political science!)
so there's literally nothing that can be done to stop these obstruction tactics? WTAF people are STARVING and in NEED... why cant they just be fucking human for once? (I know, big ask... not possible...etc )
KPN
(15,634 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)add another Trillion to the package, say $5k checks instead of the tRump change $1400
KPN
(15,634 posts)pay more later. Your choice GOP. They're "business people". They understand and use that argument all the time.
oasis
(49,317 posts)world wide wally
(21,734 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)I wish I could put head phones on this Johnson jerk for 10 hours to really drive him fucking nuts............
MFM008
(19,803 posts)....................
bluevoter4life
(786 posts)The GQP cares about the deficit once again. They are so predictable.
Warpy
(111,116 posts)You should be able to round up 100 of them easily. Give each one 6-7 pages to read, and have them stand and read in unison.
Then tell old Ron to sit down and shut up, he's done.
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)himself.
Maybe he'll be surprised what is in there for his own constituents.
Warpy
(111,116 posts)that jerk can say more words and use them to say less than anyone else in the Senate. He's equal to the task.
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)He joins a whole crew of gasbags that could have generated enough hot air to heat the entire state of Texas during that blue norther!
meow2u3
(24,757 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)but I am not sure if there are special Rules regarding that given that there are already special Rules for how the Senate handles Reconciliation.
I was trying to comb through this - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44058.pdf (PDF) and this - https://www.rules.senate.gov/rules-of-the-senate to see if there were any special motion vote thresholds dealing with reading something into the record with Reconciliation bills (vs their usual unanimously consenting that it was "read into the record" without actually doing so).
Bills have to be read twice unless the senate gives unanimous consent to waive the reading.
Keth
(184 posts)Auntie Em: Ron Johnson, just because you own the voting machines in Wisconsin doesn't mean you have the power to run the rest of us. For ten years, I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you. And now, well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!
NellieStarbuck
(265 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,025 posts)Marathon sessions that stretch out for days to put stress on Democrats? Are they hoping for an illness or change in the Senate balance?
Nothing to lose if you're losing, right?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,693 posts)LogicFirst
(571 posts)Anybody got a pacifier?
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)I have a friend who's connected to the family most of them are good people. But this asshole... somebody has something on him; I can't think of any other reason he would be such a cocksucker.
Pardon my language... but it so fits.
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)A few years ago, he was actually "moderating" his positions and doing more fuzzy center-right stuff, following along with people like Lamar Alexander and some of the other soon-to-be-retiring GOP members. But then suddenly this past year, it was like a light switch was flipped and he went full-on loon.
Maeve
(42,269 posts)notinkansas
(1,096 posts)sits there and listens to every word. Not even bathroom breaks. No lunches, dinners, phone calls. Just listen.
The Roux Comes First
(1,296 posts)Is this what they elected him for? How do they feel about this bill?