Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Out of 262 votes in the Senate in 2019, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris mssied the most votes [View all]still_one
(98,883 posts)addition, not much substance was accomplished in this Congress:
"Overall, the Senate has passed little major substantive legislation in 2019, leading to complaints from senators from both parties. We have done nothing, zero, zilch, nada, GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told reporters earlier this year.
And confirmation votes for federal judges and executive branch nominees require only a simple majority of 50 votes to pass, which means Democratic senators wouldnt be able to block Trumps selections even if their entire caucus was present.
If voters held the Senate in higher esteem, this might be a higher profile issue, but blowing off an institution that most people dont respect to begin with is unlikely to move a lot of votes, said Jack Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College. The things the Senate is voting on these days are not going to be in the history books.
Harris has returned to D.C. to vote on a number of relatively important bills, including the 9/11 first responders compensation fund, a prohibition of unauthorized military action in Iran, and an effort to block U.S. support for the Saudi war in Yemen (although she and other candidates missed an unsuccessful attempt to override Trumps veto of Yemen war resolution last month). Shes also attended plenty of hearings, including a grilling of Attorney General Bill Barr in May that won her headlines and social media attention.
The question for discussion was the conflict and active legislator has when running for public office.
Some decided to take this more personally against their preferred candidate than I intended
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden