What Will be at the Top of Democratic House Agenda

[Hossfly]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

None of the above. What will be on the Democrats agenda is protecting the integrity of US elections, which means:

1. Ensuring that all legal citizens' voting rights are not impugned by having their names improperly stricken from voters lists without notification and verification;

2. Ensure that states are not reducing the hours and numbers of polling places in poor neighbourhoods, or otherwise making it difficult for poor voters to get to the polls;

3. End gerrymandering.

How did anyone including poor people get to the polls on voting day in the 1800s and early 1900s? Especially for national or statewide elections. They surely didn't have DNC buses transporting them.

 

[BluesLegend]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

Telling Russia's prison *****, Trump, and his joke of White House filled with Wall Street kiss-butts and war-mongering neocons, their conservative agenda is over.

You mad bro?

 

[BluesLegend]

Dem's will waste the first year arguing amongst themselves.

 

[jknowgood]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

Telling Russia's prison *****, Trump, and his joke of White House filled with Wall Street kiss-butts and war-mongering neocons, their conservative agenda is over.

Trump hasn't started any wars. Try again.

He promised to end all the stupid GOP Globo-policing in the ME, and has done the exact opposite of that.

Lol, like Obama did?

 

[Synthaholic]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

You can tell a moron created this poll/thread.

They are going to cut off funding for these child abuse centers run by ICE.
They are going to release the Republican House Intelligence report that Devin Nunes has sat on.
They are going to subpoena Junior and Kushner.

 

[BluesLegend]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

You can tell a moron created this poll/thread.

They are going to cut off funding for these child abuse centers run by ICE.
They are going to release the Republican House Intelligence report that Devin Nunes has sat on.
They are going to subpoena Junior and Kushner.

Don't worry the GOP controlled senate will reinstate the money for ICE when they re-write the House bill.

 

[danielpalos]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

You can tell a moron created this poll/thread.

They are going to cut off funding for these child abuse centers run by ICE.
They are going to release the Republican House Intelligence report that Devin Nunes has sat on.
They are going to subpoena Junior and Kushner.

Don't worry the GOP controlled senate will reinstate the money for ICE when they re-write the House bill.

we need fine capital solutions not more socialism on a national basis.

 

[Preacher]

Not like its going to matter NONE of those are going to get through the senate! LMAO!

 

[BluesLegend]

Not like its going to matter NONE of those are going to get through the senate! LMAO!

The Dem controlled House is powerless, welcome to Harry Reid blocked in the senate payback!

 

[Dragonlady]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

None of the above. What will be on the Democrats agenda is protecting the integrity of US elections, which means:

1. Ensuring that all legal citizens' voting rights are not impugned by having their names improperly stricken from voters lists without notification and verification;

What constitutes improperly stricken?

2. Ensure that states are not reducing the hours and numbers of polling places in poor neighbourhoods, or otherwise making it difficult for poor voters to get to the polls;

Save for hardship cases, all voting should take place on election day. It is the duty of the citizens to get their asses to the polls within the hours given, not the State's to get them there. There should be no early voting, no extensions and no provisional ballots. The State's only duty in this matter is to provide enough polling locations and ballots to accommodate the population.

3. End gerrymandering.

Good luck with that, from either side.

Your British spelling makes me chuckle.

1. That a$$hat that Trump had heading up his voter fraud "Election Commission", was going through voter lists and just arbitrarily striking names from the list, especially names in the Democratic voter areas.

Specifically, he would go through the addresses of the voters, and where there were a large number of people with unrelated named at the same address, he would simply strike the names from the list - without making any attempt to verify if in fact some or any of these people had vacated the address. If he had been doing something similar in Republican districts, but this wasn't an even handed,non-partisan culling of voters at all. There are hundreds of stories of people in states which have employed his services, who have gone to the polls to vote and been told their names are not on the list, virtually all of them in Democratic districts.

While I agree that voter lists need to be updated, it should be done carefully, and precisely. In Canada, Canadian citizens names can be added to our voter roles when we submit our income tax forms. When I left Toronto, I enrolled on the voter rolls for my new jurisdiction, by taking my birth certificate, in my maiden name, my SIN card, and my latest electric bill showing my residence in the county where I now live, and then I took my ballot and voted.

When Canadians die, there is a substantial cash dealth benefit from the Canada Pension which requires the submission of the deceased's Death Certificate. Once a death certificate is received and the benefit cheque issued, the name is then automatically deleted from the voter lists, using the same system as checking the box on your income tax adds your name to the voter lists.

2. Yes, I agree on that. But the hours from state to state should be standard. None of this monkey business with opening later in some areas or even states than others. And employers should be legally required to give time off on election day for their employees to vote. And everyone should have an accessible polling station within a reasonable distance from their home, in urban areas. This crap in Kansas with no polling station at all within the city limits, and the only polling station not being accessable by public transit is laser targetting of poor voters and it's total bullshit. There needs to be standard hours and reasonable access to polling places.

I would ban mail in ballots completely, except for the armed forces, and diplomatic corps - Americans working for the government, overseas.

3. I get the sense that the Democrats are all for abolishing gerrymandering. They have nothing to lose by doing so. The Republicans, on the other hand, are unlikely to ever hold the House again, without changing their ways utterly.

I used to try to Americanize my spelling on the boards, but the words just look so WRONG.

ETA: While waiting to be sworn in, the incoming House leadership is already drafting an omnibus bill updating the Voting Rights Act, and dealing with many of the issues outlined, but Pelosi and others haven't provided details yet. But events in the Mueller Investigation are now running so fast that they may not have a choice about taking up impeachment.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

None of the above. What will be on the Democrats agenda is protecting the integrity of US elections, which means:

1. Ensuring that all legal citizens' voting rights are not impugned by having their names improperly stricken from voters lists without notification and verification;

What constitutes improperly stricken?

2. Ensure that states are not reducing the hours and numbers of polling places in poor neighbourhoods, or otherwise making it difficult for poor voters to get to the polls;

Save for hardship cases, all voting should take place on election day. It is the duty of the citizens to get their asses to the polls within the hours given, not the State's to get them there. There should be no early voting, no extensions and no provisional ballots. The State's only duty in this matter is to provide enough polling locations and ballots to accommodate the population.

3. End gerrymandering.

Good luck with that, from either side.

Your British spelling makes me chuckle.

1. That a$$hat that Trump had heading up his voter fraud "Election Commission", was going through voter lists and just arbitrarily striking names from the list, especially names in the Democratic voter areas.

Specifically, he would go through the addresses of the voters, and where there were a large number of people with unrelated named at the same address, he would simply strike the names from the list - without making any attempt to verify if in fact some or any of these people had vacated the address. If he had been doing something similar in Republican districts, but this wasn't an even handed,non-partisan culling of voters at all. There are hundreds of stories of people in states which have employed his services, who have gone to the polls to vote and been told their names are not on the list, virtually all of them in Democratic districts.

Source?

While I agree that voter lists need to be updated, it should be done carefully, and precisely.

Why is this the duty of the state/taxpayers? Is it not the citizen's duty to confirm current registration?

In Canada

I don't give a rat's ass what they do in Canada.

2. Yes, I agree on that. But the hours from state to state should be standard. None of this monkey business with opening later in some areas or even states than others. And employers should be legally required to give time off on election day for their employees to vote. And everyone should have an accessible polling station within a reasonable distance from their home, in urban areas. This crap in Kansas with no polling station at all within the city limits, and the only polling station not being accessable by public transit is laser targetting of poor voters and it's total bullshit. There needs to be standard hours and reasonable access to polling places.

For better or worse, states run their own elections.

I would ban mail in ballots completely, except for the armed forces, and diplomatic corps - Americans working for the government, overseas.

Agreed.

3. I get the sense that the Democrats are all for abolishing gerrymandering. They have nothing to lose by doing so. The Republicans, on the other hand, are unlikely to ever hold the House again, without changing their ways utterly.

I get no such sense from the Democrats, and such predictions invariably prove wrong.

I used to try to Americanize my spelling on the boards, but the words just look so WRONG.

I was just razzing you. NP

 

[JustAnotherNut]

Wait...……..you expect the Demoncrats to actually DO something?????

 

[Pilot1]

Open Borders to get more illegals to vote Dem
Repeal Tax cuts
Impeach Trump
Yet even more gun control laws to add to the 22,000 already on the books
Man Made Climate Change Tax on all forms of Energy

 

[velvtacheeze]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

Telling Russia's prison *****, Trump, and his joke of White House filled with Wall Street kiss-butts and war-mongering neocons, their conservative agenda is over.

Trump hasn't started any wars. Try again.

He promised to end all the stupid GOP Globo-policing in the ME, and has done the exact opposite of that.

Lol, like Obama did?

Obama is no longer President. Quit obsessing over him.

 

[sartre play]

If we the people don't find a way to come together on at least some of the things that negatively effect most of us, big money & big power will continue to steal from us while we are busy yelling at each other.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

Telling Russia's prison *****, Trump, and his joke of White House filled with Wall Street kiss-butts and war-mongering neocons, their conservative agenda is over.

Trump hasn't started any wars. Try again.

He promised to end all the stupid GOP Globo-policing in the ME, and has done the exact opposite of that.

Lol, like Obama did?

Obama is no longer President. Quit obsessing over him.

If he continues to open his yap - which is his right - he's fair game.

 

[Theowl32]

Impeach

Find another group of victims that white Christians offend.

Invent new programs to program people to vote democrat.

Prop up their scapegoat for their deliberate failed policies designed to collapse the free market.

Sabotage the economy, blame Trump for the 2020 elections like they did in 2008

Not necessarily in that order.

 

[Dragonlady]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

None of the above. What will be on the Democrats agenda is protecting the integrity of US elections, which means:

1. Ensuring that all legal citizens' voting rights are not impugned by having their names improperly stricken from voters lists without notification and verification;

What constitutes improperly stricken?

2. Ensure that states are not reducing the hours and numbers of polling places in poor neighbourhoods, or otherwise making it difficult for poor voters to get to the polls;

Save for hardship cases, all voting should take place on election day. It is the duty of the citizens to get their asses to the polls within the hours given, not the State's to get them there. There should be no early voting, no extensions and no provisional ballots. The State's only duty in this matter is to provide enough polling locations and ballots to accommodate the population.

3. End gerrymandering.

Good luck with that, from either side.

Your British spelling makes me chuckle.

1. That a$$hat that Trump had heading up his voter fraud "Election Commission", was going through voter lists and just arbitrarily striking names from the list, especially names in the Democratic voter areas.

Specifically, he would go through the addresses of the voters, and where there were a large number of people with unrelated named at the same address, he would simply strike the names from the list - without making any attempt to verify if in fact some or any of these people had vacated the address. If he had been doing something similar in Republican districts, but this wasn't an even handed,non-partisan culling of voters at all. There are hundreds of stories of people in states which have employed his services, who have gone to the polls to vote and been told their names are not on the list, virtually all of them in Democratic districts.

Source?

While I agree that voter lists need to be updated, it should be done carefully, and precisely.

Why is this the duty of the state/taxpayers? Is it not the citizen's duty to confirm current registration?

In Canada

I don't give a rat's ass what they do in Canada.

2. Yes, I agree on that. But the hours from state to state should be standard. None of this monkey business with opening later in some areas or even states than others. And employers should be legally required to give time off on election day for their employees to vote. And everyone should have an accessible polling station within a reasonable distance from their home, in urban areas. This crap in Kansas with no polling station at all within the city limits, and the only polling station not being accessable by public transit is laser targetting of poor voters and it's total bullshit. There needs to be standard hours and reasonable access to polling places.

For better or worse, states run their own elections.

I would ban mail in ballots completely, except for the armed forces, and diplomatic corps - Americans working for the government, overseas.

Agreed.

3. I get the sense that the Democrats are all for abolishing gerrymandering. They have nothing to lose by doing so. The Republicans, on the other hand, are unlikely to ever hold the House again, without changing their ways utterly.

I get no such sense from the Democrats, and such predictions invariably prove wrong.

I used to try to Americanize my spelling on the boards, but the words just look so WRONG.

I was just razzing you. NP

1. This is the dipshit.

J. Christian Adams - Wikipedia

Adams advocates for stricter voter ID laws, and has without evidence asserted that there is an "alien invasion" at the voting booth.[23] According to NBC News, "he's spent years suing counties to force them to purge their rolls and he's published personal information online about thousands of registered voters he believes could have committed fraud."[23]Adams has described those who say there is no way to improve the integrity of the electoral system without cancelling the registrations of legitimate voters as "flat-earthers".[23] He has called those who deny the existence of voter fraud as "voter fraud deniers." In 2017, Adams was chosen by President Donald Trump to be a member of his election integrity commission.[23] Adams opposes automatic voter registration, saying that voter registration should require "forethought and initiative, something lacking in large segments of the Democrat base."[3]

2. It's the duty of the state to ensure the integrity of their elections, is it not? How can you ensure the integrity of the election without have integrity on your voting lists? I don't understand your reluctance to ensure that the lists are up to date and correct. Right wingers are HUGE on voter ID, buy don't want the state to have any responsibility for the correctness of their voter rolls. This makes no logical sense at all.

I offered what we do here in Canada for the voter rolls as a suggestion of one way to preserve the integrity of the rolls and prevent the dead from voting.

There are certainly many benefits to having the states run their elections, but there needs to be protections from the sorts of shennanigans we've seen this election. The rest of the world is appalled that a country which has no problem crticizing the farces that pass for elections in many countries, is currently headed by a political party which is doing everything in it's considerable power to limit access to voting for urban and poor voters, and cling to power at all costs. Standardizing hours and number of days to vote would be a small step in that direction.

Last but not least, I think this practice of people "picking up" or "harvesting" the mail in ballots should end immediately. I can think of no election practice with more potential for abuse and fraud than handing your ballot over to some stranger who comes to your door.

3. Pelosi said they wanted to ban gerrymandering. She said that Democrats were preparing an omnibus bill to restore portions of the Voters' Rights Act, and to end gerrymandering. And they want to get it passed before the 2020 election, so that the re-districting is done in advance of 2020.

I repeat, the world is watching the Republican Party commit the most egregious violations of the civil rights of the American people. Your country was founded on the principle that the people should have a say in the running of the country, and Republicans are doing their best to ensure that only people who agree with them get that say. If your country doesn't squash this, Americans will lose all of their moral high ground to go after fake elections in other countries.

I knew you were razzing me. Try reading my response with the sarcastic tone I intended.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Outside of committee assignment and rules changes to screw Republicans: “What will the Democrats lead issue be on their legislative agenda.” I think they will set in place apparatus to impeach Trump.

None of the above. What will be on the Democrats agenda is protecting the integrity of US elections, which means:

1. Ensuring that all legal citizens' voting rights are not impugned by having their names improperly stricken from voters lists without notification and verification;

What constitutes improperly stricken?

2. Ensure that states are not reducing the hours and numbers of polling places in poor neighbourhoods, or otherwise making it difficult for poor voters to get to the polls;

Save for hardship cases, all voting should take place on election day. It is the duty of the citizens to get their asses to the polls within the hours given, not the State's to get them there. There should be no early voting, no extensions and no provisional ballots. The State's only duty in this matter is to provide enough polling locations and ballots to accommodate the population.

3. End gerrymandering.

Good luck with that, from either side.

Your British spelling makes me chuckle.

1. That a$$hat that Trump had heading up his voter fraud "Election Commission", was going through voter lists and just arbitrarily striking names from the list, especially names in the Democratic voter areas.

Specifically, he would go through the addresses of the voters, and where there were a large number of people with unrelated named at the same address, he would simply strike the names from the list - without making any attempt to verify if in fact some or any of these people had vacated the address. If he had been doing something similar in Republican districts, but this wasn't an even handed,non-partisan culling of voters at all. There are hundreds of stories of people in states which have employed his services, who have gone to the polls to vote and been told their names are not on the list, virtually all of them in Democratic districts.

Source?

While I agree that voter lists need to be updated, it should be done carefully, and precisely.

Why is this the duty of the state/taxpayers? Is it not the citizen's duty to confirm current registration?

In Canada

I don't give a rat's ass what they do in Canada.

2. Yes, I agree on that. But the hours from state to state should be standard. None of this monkey business with opening later in some areas or even states than others. And employers should be legally required to give time off on election day for their employees to vote. And everyone should have an accessible polling station within a reasonable distance from their home, in urban areas. This crap in Kansas with no polling station at all within the city limits, and the only polling station not being accessable by public transit is laser targetting of poor voters and it's total bullshit. There needs to be standard hours and reasonable access to polling places.

For better or worse, states run their own elections.

I would ban mail in ballots completely, except for the armed forces, and diplomatic corps - Americans working for the government, overseas.

Agreed.

3. I get the sense that the Democrats are all for abolishing gerrymandering. They have nothing to lose by doing so. The Republicans, on the other hand, are unlikely to ever hold the House again, without changing their ways utterly.

I get no such sense from the Democrats, and such predictions invariably prove wrong.

I used to try to Americanize my spelling on the boards, but the words just look so WRONG.

I was just razzing you. NP

1. This is the dipshit.

J. Christian Adams - Wikipedia

Adams advocates for stricter voter ID laws, and has without evidence asserted that there is an "alien invasion" at the voting booth.[23] According to NBC News, "he's spent years suing counties to force them to purge their rolls and he's published personal information online about thousands of registered voters he believes could have committed fraud."[23]Adams has described those who say there is no way to improve the integrity of the electoral system without cancelling the registrations of legitimate voters as "flat-earthers".[23] He has called those who deny the existence of voter fraud as "voter fraud deniers." In 2017, Adams was chosen by President Donald Trump to be a member of his election integrity commission.[23] Adams opposes automatic voter registration, saying that voter registration should require "forethought and initiative, something lacking in large segments of the Democrat base."[3]

2. It's the duty of the state to ensure the integrity of their elections, is it not? How can you ensure the integrity of the election without have integrity on your voting lists? I don't understand your reluctance to ensure that the lists are up to date and correct. Right wingers are HUGE on voter ID, buy don't want the state to have any responsibility for the correctness of their voter rolls. This makes no logical sense at all.

I offered what we do here in Canada for the voter rolls as a suggestion of one way to preserve the integrity of the rolls and prevent the dead from voting.

There are certainly many benefits to having the states run their elections, but there needs to be protections from the sorts of shennanigans we've seen this election. The rest of the world is appalled that a country which has no problem crticizing the farces that pass for elections in many countries, is currently headed by a political party which is doing everything in it's considerable power to limit access to voting for urban and poor voters, and cling to power at all costs. Standardizing hours and number of days to vote would be a small step in that direction.

Last but not least, I think this practice of people "picking up" or "harvesting" the mail in ballots should end immediately. I can think of no election practice with more potential for abuse and fraud than handing your ballot over to some stranger who comes to your door.

3. Pelosi said they wanted to ban gerrymandering. She said that Democrats were preparing an omnibus bill to restore portions of the Voters' Rights Act, and to end gerrymandering. And they want to get it passed before the 2020 election, so that the re-districting is done in advance of 2020.

I repeat, the world is watching the Republican Party commit the most egregious violations of the civil rights of the American people. Your country was founded on the principle that the people should have a say in the running of the country, and Republicans are doing their best to ensure that only people who agree with them get that say. If your country doesn't squash this, Americans will lose all of their moral high ground to go after fake elections in other countries.

I knew you were razzing me. Try reading my response with the sarcastic tone I intended.

Voter lists should be completely cleared following every presidential election. It should fall to the citizens to assure they are registered, not to the state to seek them out at taxpayer expense.

Democrats "say" many things, most of it untrue.

Actually, it was founded on the principle that people with skin in the game should say how the country will run, not those who produce nothing but urine and feces and vote only to increase the handout afforded them. As I'm sure you know, the welfare state had no place in the founding plan. Charity was the venue of private interests.

 

[whitehall]

The top agenda for house democrats will continue to be incoherent anger. When democrats took over both houses during Bush's 2nd term what do you think was the first thing on their list? Was it the economy or foreign policy? Nope, senate democrats held a series of high profile hearings on ....wait for it....steriod use in baseball. Meanwhile the democrat house banking chairperson told America that Fannie Mae was doing fine when it was on the verge of collapse. It's never about the welfare of the Country. Democrats will pull every dirty trick in the book to vent their anger and try to gain gain more power.