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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/390815-mcconnell-open-to-amendment-pushing-back-on-trump-tariffsMcConnell open to amendment pushing back on Trump tariffs
By Alexander Bolton - 06/05/18 03:06 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he will not bring up a free-standing bill to push back on President Trumps trade agenda, but that GOP senators might be able to add it as an amendment to other legislation.
Support among Republicans has grown for legislation backed by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would give Congress power to authorize or reject any new tariffs imposed because of national security concerns.
GOP senators say McConnell doesnt want to risk a confrontation with the president but also wants to be responsive to the concerns of colleagues who think Trumps trade agenda has run amok.
What Im in favor of is getting bills passed that we have to do for the country. NDAA is certainly one of them but it is open to amendment and well see what happens as it moves across the floor, he said, referring to the National Defense Authorization Act, which Congress passes every year and is considered a must-pass bill.
He noted that the Senate also has to pass the farm bill a package of agriculture subsidies as well as appropriations bills.
McConnell ruled out the possibility of bringing up the Corker-Toomey proposal as a stand-alone measure.
Items as contentious as thats likely to be, well see. But Im not going to call it up free-standing, he said.
He acknowledged, however, that Corker and Toomey could attach their proposal to the defense bill.
NDAA is going to be open, well see what amendments are offered, he said, indicating that he will allow amendments to the defense measure.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)someone has to start standing up to him.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)And, because Yertle has always been careful about protecting his own Power above all else that he does.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)they have given the biggest crook ever in our government so much power so they can protect their own self interests. Sometimes I think this country is doomed.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)And actually throw some of them in prison for their crimes. If Nixon had done so much as 6 months in a federal pen, i suspect a lot of the subsequent crimes of the following presidential administrations of the following 30 years at least would have been much more greatly considered before being acted on as 'good ideas'.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Trump can veto a self standing bill and force an override. But he likely won't veto a popular bill with an amendment attached to it.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Whatever, Mitch
helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Mitch and GOP own all things trump...