McConnell, Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (Mo.), Senate Republican Conference Vice Chairwoman Joni Ernst (Iowa), and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), advisers to the leadership team, voted for it.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) convened a bipartisan group of senators in his Capitol basement hideaway two days after the shooting in Uvalde, and that same week McConnell said he would appoint Cornyn, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to lead the negotiations for Republicans.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), however, has said she expects the House to vote on the measure this week, clearing the way for it to reach President Biden’s desk.
“This is an important piece of legislation. We’re very excited about it. It will save lives,” Pelosi said Wednesday. “But we want to get it done.”
When the article openly admits the bill was bought and paid for you know they don’t care about optics anymore.
Normal human beings don't get very excited at the prospect of passing a new law because a school of children got massacred.
I know this ship sailed a long time ago, but politicians should never be excited about legislation. Laws should only be passed as a necessity. If they're excited about legislation, that means they're excited about controlling what citizens can, can't, or must do. Fucking psychopaths.
When the article openly admits the bill was bought and paid for you know they don’t care about optics anymore.
Pelosi only gets excited for two things, booze and exercizing tyrannical abuses of power. And that bill ain't booze.
Normal human beings don't get very excited at the prospect of passing a new law because a school of children got massacred.
I know this ship sailed a long time ago, but politicians should never be excited about legislation. Laws should only be passed as a necessity. If they're excited about legislation, that means they're excited about controlling what citizens can, can't, or must do. Fucking psychopaths.
The only excitement that should be present in a good political chamber is when the lunch break begins.
"I won't ban vax mandates, they can work elsewhere."