Smedley VonBuren
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who votes for these people? No wonder their approval rating is in the teens. TERM LIMITS please!!!
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Money Talks, and That's All You Speak Up Forrepeal the 17th Amendment. Money gone and representation is returned to the states as the framers intended
McCain scared me. He was not lucid. The man is clearly suffering from senility. He needs to retire.who votes for these people? No wonder their approval rating is in the teens. TERM LIMITS please!!!
We have the 17th amendment precisely because our Senators were perceived to be more owned by special interests than they are now. See "The Bosses of The Senate" below.repeal the 17th Amendment. Money gone and representation is returned to the states as the framers intended
The legislative procedures in the Senate are designed to make the Senate more deliberative. A brake on the passions of an ill-informed democracy.As you might recall, Senators were supposed to be elected by State Legislatures. Now they are simply Super Congressmen to do the bidding of the lobby groups/religious cults.
The legislative procedures in the Senate are designed to make the Senate more deliberative. But as partisan hacks erode those procedures with nuclear options, the Senate becomes more and more like the mob mentality in the House.As you might recall, Senators were supposed to be elected by State Legislatures. Now they are simply Super Congressmen to do the bidding of the lobby groups/religious cults.
There have been many nuclear options exercised over time. Our Republic comes closer and closer to peril with the exercising of each one.The legislative procedures in the Senate are designed to make the Senate more deliberative. But as partisan hacks erode those procedures with nuclear options, the Senate becomes more and more like the mob mentality in the House.As you might recall, Senators were supposed to be elected by State Legislatures. Now they are simply Super Congressmen to do the bidding of the lobby groups/religious cults.
Hey, are you talking about those hacks that implemented that nuclear option.
There have been many nuclear options exercised over time. Our Republic comes closer and closer to peril with the exercising of each one.The legislative procedures in the Senate are designed to make the Senate more deliberative. But as partisan hacks erode those procedures with nuclear options, the Senate becomes more and more like the mob mentality in the House.As you might recall, Senators were supposed to be elected by State Legislatures. Now they are simply Super Congressmen to do the bidding of the lobby groups/religious cults.
Hey, are you talking about those hacks that implemented that nuclear option.
The voting booth is supposed to enforce term limits.who votes for these people? No wonder their approval rating is in the teens. TERM LIMITS please!!!
It is not only the exercising of the nuclear option which has watered down the deliberative nature of the Senate. I provided the nuclear option as one of the more glaring examples.There have been many nuclear options exercised over time. Our Republic comes closer and closer to peril with the exercising of each one.The legislative procedures in the Senate are designed to make the Senate more deliberative. But as partisan hacks erode those procedures with nuclear options, the Senate becomes more and more like the mob mentality in the House.As you might recall, Senators were supposed to be elected by State Legislatures. Now they are simply Super Congressmen to do the bidding of the lobby groups/religious cults.
Hey, are you talking about those hacks that implemented that nuclear option.
The nuclear option has only been used in practice twice—in 2013 and 2017, however the threat to use it dates back at least to 1917, in opinions related to reform of the Senate's filibuster rules. Subsequently, an opinion written by Vice President Richard Nixon in 1957 concluded that the U.S. Constitution grants the presiding officer the authority to override existing Senate rules. The option was used to make further rule changes in 1975. In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court. On April 6, 2017, Senate Republicans used the nuclear option to eliminate the exception for Supreme Court nominees, after the nomination of Neil Gorsuch failed to meet the requirement of 60 votes for ending the debate.[3]