@Baldimo,
Quote:Hiding behind procure, locking them up in committees?
The exact same process that has been used for the last 100 years or more. Coming up with some grand conspiracy makes you look like a nut.
Quote: 300 bills is a lot of bills for a Congress that didn't do anything and as you have said before was the least productive Congress in history
300 bills is about average and isn't even close to the highest total which was when the same party controlled both the House and the Senate. Read your source material.
Quote: Now we will see what the Senate can get done.
I would bet that the Senate will probably not pass over 300 bills that the House passes in this Congress. But then I suppose you will blame Reid for that too.
Quote: Reid ran the Senate and nothing was done, the blame goes to Reid and his obstructionism.
Actually the Senate passed a number of bills that were never voted on in the House. But I suppose that is Reid's fault too in your mind.
Let's put this in perspective. In the last 20 congresses, 13 of them had 300 or more House bills that were not acted on in the Senate. 19 of the 20 had 250 or more House bills not acted on by the Senate. That is from your source. The actions of the Senate were about the same as normal when it comes to House bills.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/08/yes-the-senate-is-ignoring-hundreds-of-bills-passed-by-the-gop-house-but-its-always-that-way/
That leads us to 2 things.
1) The Senate majority leader doesn't control the actions of the committees. He can certainly set party agenda, but you give him powers that no majority leader has. McConnell won't be able to force bills out of committee any more than Reid can. Blaming Reid for the actions of the Senate shows a complete failure to understand how the Senate works. I look forward to your blaming McConnell in the next 2 years. (I doubt you will do that however.)
2) This Senate has been no different than most of the previous 20 Senates when it comes to passing House bills. I wonder if you will blame McConnell when this Senate acts in the same fashion and fails to act on 300 House bills. We are barely a month into it and we are already seeing the first bills that aren't making it to the Senate floor.