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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleag
Claire McCaskill? Verified account @clairecmc
This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown. None of us have seen this list, but lobbyists have it. Need I say more? Disgusting. And we probably will not even be given time to read them.
2:29 PM - 1 Dec 2017
This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown. None of us have seen this list, but lobbyists have it. Need I say more? Disgusting. And we probably will not even be given time to read them.
2:29 PM - 1 Dec 2017
This is just insane!
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This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleag (Original Post)
demmiblue
Dec 2017
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bdamomma
(63,931 posts)1. oh crap
they can't do this. this is sickening.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)2. Evil.
genxlib
(5,544 posts)3. I remember a quainter time
when one of the reasons for tax reform was to "simplify" the tax code.
Does that look like a law that could allow your taxes to be filed on a post card?
The methodology of putting this together is just adding insult to injury. The law would be bad enough even if it were done by the book.
demmiblue
(36,903 posts)4. ...
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Robin Talley? @wakRtalley
Replying to @clairecmc
just a list of POSSIBLE changes for the JOINT committee to decide on! STOP the Scare tactics and LET the LEGAL process work!
2:31 PM - 1 Dec 2017
Replying to @clairecmc
just a list of POSSIBLE changes for the JOINT committee to decide on! STOP the Scare tactics and LET the LEGAL process work!
2:31 PM - 1 Dec 2017
Claire McCaskill? Verified account @clairecmc
Claire McCaskill Retweeted Robin Talley
No. Its. Not. These are the amendments they are stuffing in the bill that we will be asked to vote on in a few hours. Without time for us to read or ask questions. I can assure you the process is not working.
2:34 PM - 1 Dec 2017
Claire McCaskill Retweeted Robin Talley
No. Its. Not. These are the amendments they are stuffing in the bill that we will be asked to vote on in a few hours. Without time for us to read or ask questions. I can assure you the process is not working.
2:34 PM - 1 Dec 2017
P.S.:
standingtall
(2,787 posts)5. dont all those amendments make the bill cost more money
and shouldn't it have to be scored by the cbo? If 1.5 trillion is the max the bill can cost without being filibustered? How is it not a violation of the Byrd rules to pass this through reconciliation? Considering it is impossible to tell how much it cost?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)6. republican lobbyists get it before our American Senators?
major republican crime unfolding. Stop them. Lock them up.