What is Congress good for?

[eagle7-31]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

Making legislation???

 

[eagle7-31]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate.

This raises an interesting question: Congress, what’s it good for?

On one level, not much. Whatever laws the Democrats can’t kill in committee will be vetoed by Biden.

Likewise, impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland and others is a dead end since we don’t have the votes in the Senate to convict. As a practical matter, we may not have a working majority.

Senior Republicans, more interested in attending the next wine and cheese party than tending to the needs of their constituents and nation, are going to be tempted to be the next John McCain. Add to this a Democratic leadership willing to fight dirty, and we’ll be forced to fight just to get a budget done on time.

It’s not all bad news.

Republican control of both houses means no more "Build Back Broke" spending bills. It also means we can begin preparing for the next presidential election by forcing Biden and company to publicly defend their agenda. We do this by forcing Biden to veto bill after bill. Imagine Biden vetoing a bill supporting energy production as oil hits $100 per barrel, or leftist tears if forced to support a presidential veto of Marjorie Taylor Green’s bill protecting children from the Orwellian "gender-affirming care."

Often overlooked are administrative acts. If there is the will to do so, Republicans can ban earmarks (again). They can file ethics complaints and force investigations against the likes of Rep. Jerry Nadler, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Adam Schiff for their dirty deeds over the last few years.

And then there are congressional hearings and investigations. Why not use Nancey Pelosi’s beloved January 6 committee to determine if the FBI instigated the riot in the same way the agency instigated the Gretchen Witmer kidnapping plot? At the very least, we can force the FBI to say how many informants and agents were on the ground that morning.

If the Republicans have the necessary courage and discipline, well-run hearings and investigations can lead to special prosecutors and criminal charges. Hunter Biden's laptop is the obvious example, but the essential work of reforming the politicalized Department of Justice and the gender-affirming Department of Education begins with congressional hearings documenting the problems.

Just because we can’t convict Mr. Garland before the 2024 presidential election doesn’t mean we can’t do so afterward, especially if all the paperwork is already in order.

And there are things less ordinary. Congress has the power to issue public proclamations either jointly or individually. Proclamations are usually reserved for pointless announcements. Today is national green ink day, but with a little imagination, it can be so much more. Let’s suppose Congress submits criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, which refuses to act on them. Why not have both the Senate and House issue public statements denouncing the DOJ? Senate moderates blocking efforts to defund Biden’s IRS expansion? Have the House issue its own proclamation.

Do you want to call attention to the lives mutilated and destroyed by the transgender movement? Why not proclaim a national detransition day? Why not a proclamation in support of election integrity or securing the border?

Like the presidential veto, these actions put Democrats on the wrong side of an issue and put Republicans on the hook for decisive action after they retake the White House in 2024.

Congress, what’s it good for? In the hands of a driven, disciplined party, quite a lot.

 

[rightwinger]

Congress is gridlocked

They no longer have the capability to compromise and find a middle ground

Time to get rid of the Filibuster

 

[Darkwind]

Congress is gridlocked

They no longer have the capability to compromise and find a middle ground

Time to get rid of the Filibuster

No.

Time to get rid of every encumbant.

 

[whitehall]

The genius Founding Fathers set the terms for Representatives at two years because they wanted citizens to be able to fire congressmen if they didn't represent the values of their constituents. The problem isn't with Congress, it's about the profound ignorance of American citizens.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

Term limits is what congress is good for.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The genius Founding Fathers set the terms for Representatives at two years because they wanted citizens to be able to fire congressmen if they didn't represent the values of their constituents. The problem isn't with Congress, it's about the profound ignorance of American citizens.

Is it time yet?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

Exactly

Why do we need a FedGov?

All they do is fuck everything up and steal our money.

I honestly get ZERO benefit. None.

 

[skye]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

good for?
you don't really want to know~

 

[BackAgain]

What is Congress good for?​

“Absolutely nothin’”

 

[MarathonMike]

Did you see how fast they sent 40 billion of our tax dollars to Ukraine to protect THEIR border? We could have sure used that 40 billion down here on our border.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Congress: What’s it good for?

The next congressional election is just weeks away. Barring any last-minute kamikaze mission by RINOs or junk-mail balloting, it looks like Republicans will take control of the House and the Senate. This raises an interesting question: Congress, ...

www.americanthinker.com

good question for this day and age.

Since the Republicans control the funding they can do things like not fund these 83,000 IRS agents. They can withhold funding to cities to fight crime if their DA's, prosecutors or AG's don't enforce the laws or give criminals slaps on the hand. That would lower the ever increasing violent crime rate in commie cities across the country.

They can hold a real 1/6 investigation where Piglosi and the Capital police chief have to answer for their part in it. They can release the thousands of hours of video to the public that they've been hiding since the riot.

No, they can't do it all. The President still has the power to stop drilling and permits. H still has control over the open border. But if the Republicans learned anything from Trump, they can stop half the damage this failed administration wants to do to this country.

 

[toobfreak]

What is Congress good for?​

1. Republicans have proven themselves mostly totally useless, stupid, craven liars and cowards.
2. Democrats have proven themselves to be the anti-American climate-socialist Marxist party marching in lock-step for western Europe and China.