Schumer: Dems will try to disband Trump voter fraud panel in must-pass bill

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 08/24/17 11:42 AM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is warning that Democrats will try to use a must-pass bill to dissolve the administration's election integrity commission if the president doesn't nix the panel.

"If the president wants to truly show that he rejects the discrimination agenda of the white supremacist movement, he will rescind the Executive Order that created this commission," Schumer wrote in a Medium post.

He added if Trump doesn't take action "the Congress should prohibit its operation through one of the must-pass legislative vehicles in September."

Link to tweet

Congress will return to Washington after Labor Day to face a September jam packed with deadlines, including funding the government and raising the debt ceiling. Republicans will need Democratic votes to get the legislation through the Senate.




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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Linking the two is impressive!

Chuck Schumer is one smart cookie! And his timing on things is really good too!

[bettyellen]

2. This has to be a big issue- the assault on our elections must stop.

[shanny]

3. Good.

It is past time to address the New Jim Crow. This is a place to start.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Great, plus let me always remind everyone, McConnell violated the constitution when he REFUSED

us the SC seat we voted for then broke the rules to put someone in the vast majority of America didnt want.

Democracy ended at that point.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick.

[poli-junkie]

6. Yes! That's how it's done!

Dem strategy should be exposing and confronting Repuke policy. Long past time for Schumer and Pelosi to use their bully pulpits to expose what the Repukes are doing. Schumer should have a weekly news conference to expose and confront -- make the Repukes defend themselves -- escalate the confrontation, put their backs up!

[flibbitygiblets]

7. K&R, that panel is an un-American voter suppression panel, and everyone needs to know it.

Good for the D's!

[rogue emissary]

8. K & R

Now I know what I'll be calling my senators about when they come back after Labor day.

[Hortensis]

9. Oh, good for us. Go, Democrats!

[Old Vet]

10. Finally, Really good idea. Come on chuck, I was getting bored with Harry Reid

[Squinch]

11. This IS a good idea and it DOES need to be done, but here we are again using our political

capital to get rid of one of Trump(R)'s bogus bullshit measures.

This election commission was created out of a Trump lie. It is based on nothing. If there were any integrity anywhere, there would be no commission and we could be using the must pass bill for things like guaranteeing funding for Obamacare or rescinding travel bans or funding climate measures.

[FakeNoose]

12. The GOP has done this many times

...especially since 2008 when a certain black man became POTUS.
Chuck Schumer is a smart guy and let's hope he can get this done.

[Squinch]

13. Yes. I wish him all success and I think he's doing a good job. I'm one of his most loyal

constituents, but it pisses me off that he has to do this.