Although the Republican leadership’s proposed rules were largely a copy-paste of the rules for the 118th Congress, there are some changes. One major difference has to do with the procedure for removing the Speaker, which played a key role in the 118th Congress. Previously, any single member of Congress could bring up a resolution to remove the Speaker. Now, nine Republicans have to co-sponsor such a resolution for it to be considered. This strengthens the hand of the Speaker significantly and also undermines the ability of a majority of the House of Representatives to change who is serving as Speaker.
The other major difference is that the Rules place twelve specific bills on a glide path to a vote on the House floor without allowing for hearings or amendments, by limiting debate, and waiving all the other chamber rules.
See, these are the sort of tactics the Democrats should’ve used with stuff like voting rights and campaign finance reform and student loan forgiveness and the minimum wage increase and all those other things that they “ran out of time” without getting passed, despite them being alleged priorities.
They didn’t “run out of time” for voting rights and campaign finance reform. It was literally the first bill the house passed in 2021 but because of the filibuster it went no where in the senate. Should they have gotten rid of the filibuster to try and pass it? Sure, but they didn’t “run out of time”.
Minimum wage wise is a different type of stupidity with the senate parliamentarian but even if that was fixed Manchin and Sinema wouldn’t have voted for it. And of course they didn’t even try with student loan forgiveness in congress cause they had hoped for being able to do what Biden tried to do, forgive up to 20k if you got pell grants. Which was then stopped by federal courts. Courts with republican/Trump appointed judges. Again, even with these they didn’t “run out of time”.
So basically, the problem is two fold, the filibuster fucks shit up when democrats are in power, and the voters continue to not give the democrats a big enough majority that would allow for being able to take the hit of a senator or two not wanting to vote for legislation or dont give them a super majority so the filibuster doesn’t come into play. And even when they do eventually get that, like they sorta did in 2022, they lose control of the House so can’t do shit.
Didn’t the GOP run on hating that exact thing?
But yeah it’d be amazing if the dems didn’t always cave before the negotiations begin :/
For those too lazy to read:
For compliance with “title IX” in athletics, to define sex based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth (a version passed in 2023)
To take into custody non-citizens who have been charged with theft.
To make sex offenses and domestic violence deportable offenses. (a version passed in 2024)
To make the assault of a law enforcement officer a deportable offense (a version passed in 2023)
To withhold federal funding that goes to “sanctuary cities” to benefit undocumented immigrants (a version passed in 2024)
New criminal and immigration penalties for intentionally fleeing a pursuing Federal officer while operating a motor vehicle (a version passed in 2024)
To prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion (a version passed in 2023)
To sanction the International Criminal Court for issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or if it investigates, arrests, detains, or prosecutes any American or ally of the United States. (a version passed in 2024)
A likely-bipartisan bill to fix double-taxation of residents of Taiwan who pay U.S. taxes
To require proof of United States citizenship to register an to vote (a version passed in 2024)
To amend the Controlled Substances Act with respect to the scheduling of fentanyl (a version passed in 2023)
To prohibit a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing (a version passed in 2024)
There is no such thing as an abortion survivor. Abortions after viability are done because the baby is dead/dying or the mom is at risk. Wherein an abortion is done for the life of the mother and the baby is otherwise viable the mom is already induced early rather than simply killing the baby.
This leaves solely and only the case where the abortion is done to preserve the mom’s life and the baby is too early for viability. A medication abortion is when the baby is a lump of cells which can’t develop outside the body. A surgical abortion for a pre-viable fetus eg too late to be a lump of cells but too early to live…invariably terminates it.
There is no situation where this is a thing.
To sanction the International Criminal Court for issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or if it investigates, arrests, detains, or prosecutes any American or ally of the United States. (a version passed in 2024)
Gearing Trump up for their own spree of war crimes, no doubt.
To require proof of United States citizenship to register an to vote (a version passed in 2024)
This should be fun. How many US citizens can prove they are here legally right now?
Your ID proves you were here legally wherein the government has a record of your birth certificate existing even if you don’t physically have said certificate on your person.
Now if we want to prove you weren’t granted birthright citizenship which is absolutely and totally irrefutably a thing that trump can’t legally change by fiat you would have to reference your parents which should again be on the birth cert which again the US in fact does already possess even if you have lost your copy.
Probably with a combination of birth certificate, social security number, credit score, or some other identifier like tax records. Just speculating.
SovCitz are gonna have a blast with this
It seems like we had to prove something to get an ssn - for my kids I think it was just a checkbox on the birth record - we’ll take an ssn to go
Years ago I lost my wallet with my social security card and license in it.
My birth certificate was somewhere in the house but it had gone missing.
I had one hell of a time getting all that unraveled.
The MVA at the time was able to make an exception, I was able to bring them an overwhelming amount of personal documents and mail, They already have my image in the system.
I was able to use that and other documentation times to get a birth certificate copy, then I was able to use those documents to get a replacement social security card.
With real ID I don’t even know what you’d have to go through today to get that taken care of.
It’s been a long time for most of us, but we did have to provide some proof when we first registered to vote. I believe it was having a social security number, which itself has proof requirements. Most of us got our SSN at birth.
Yes, there are some holes in this, but they are very rare and limited.
As for proving citizenship currently, the eligibility documents for a passport are published. Most people have the supporting docs to get one.
