So...the Senate, in a rare bid to be the adults in the room..passed this bill..shorn of all the House's partisan trimmings..now the House, must either bow to inevitable...or re-attach the BS..and send it back to the Senate...and rinse and repeat?
Am I smelling that most toxic of smells..to Fringies...of Bipartisanship? Will the Rebubs in the House 'get it' before they all have to update their resumes?
Congress is one step closer to finalizing an annual defense policy bill after the Senate Thursday evening passed its own version in the race to authorize funding before the upper chamber begins its six-week summer recess.
The National Defense Authorization Act cleared the Senate's 60-vote threshold by 86-11.
Only four Democrats supported the NDAA in the House. In the week-long leadup to the Senate passage, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., touted the bipartisan approach from lawmakers in the upper chamber.
"What's happening in the Senate is a stark contrast to a bipartisan race to the bottom we saw in the House where House Republicans are pushing partisan legislation that has zero chance of passing," Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday morning. "House Republicans should look to the Senate to see how things get done."
He called the bipartisan process a "glimmer of hope" for Americans.
"A bipartisan process is precisely what the American people are yearning for in a fractured Congress," he said.
Am I smelling that most toxic of smells..to Fringies...of Bipartisanship? Will the Rebubs in the House 'get it' before they all have to update their resumes?
Congress is one step closer to finalizing an annual defense policy bill after the Senate Thursday evening passed its own version in the race to authorize funding before the upper chamber begins its six-week summer recess.
The National Defense Authorization Act cleared the Senate's 60-vote threshold by 86-11.
Only four Democrats supported the NDAA in the House. In the week-long leadup to the Senate passage, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., touted the bipartisan approach from lawmakers in the upper chamber.
"What's happening in the Senate is a stark contrast to a bipartisan race to the bottom we saw in the House where House Republicans are pushing partisan legislation that has zero chance of passing," Schumer said on the Senate floor Thursday morning. "House Republicans should look to the Senate to see how things get done."
He called the bipartisan process a "glimmer of hope" for Americans.
"A bipartisan process is precisely what the American people are yearning for in a fractured Congress," he said.
