@coldjoint,
Oh i dont think so. Congress has the power to get tax returns from tgw irs. Tgeyll get trumps and about damned time.
@coldjoint,
Actually i wouldnt be surprised if ther do. Cohen sai he overvalued his biz to get loans and undervalued it to pay taxes. A little comparison might pay off.
Why won't he do his JOB?? Too scared it will pass?
McConnell won't allow vote on election reform bill
By MARIANNE LEVINE 03/06/2019 04:42 PM EST Updated 03/06/2019
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t shied away from publicly criticizing House Democrats’ electoral reform bill and the Green New Deal. But he’ll only allow the Green New Deal to get a Senate vote on the floor.
Republicans ripped into the House Democrats’ electoral reform bill, H.R. 1, at a press conference Wednesday, arguing that the legislation was merely a tactic to tilt elections in favor of Democrats. McConnell, who has dubbed the bill the “Democrat Politician Protection Act,” said that the bill is “offensive to average voters” and will not get any floor time in the Senate.
When asked at a press conference why he wasn’t bringing the House electoral reform bill to the Senate floor, McConnell responded, with a grin: "Because I get to decide what we vote on.”
“What is the problem we’re trying to solve here?” McConnell asked. “People are flooding to the polls.”
McConnell in February, however, said he’ll bring a vote on the Green New Deal, the resolution led by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), in order to challenge Democrats on the measure that Republicans say is far to the left of most Americans.
The bill is slated to pass the Democratically-controlled House this week, fulfilling a campaign promise many members made in the last election cycle to overhaul elections.
The legislation contains a series of voting reforms Democrats have long pushed for, including automatic voter registration, expansion of early voting, an endorsement of D.C. statehood and a requirement that independent commissions oversee House redistricting. In addition, the bill requires “dark money” groups to disclose donors.
Democrats argue that the bill will make it easier to vote and cracks down on money in politics.
But Republicans said the bill would amount to federal overreach when it comes to elections.
“If the federal government begins to give lots of direction, is the federal government going to give lots of money?” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said. “If the federal government give lots of money the federal government always gives lots of control.”
House Republicans also blasted their Democratic colleagues for rushing the bill through. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), ranking member of the House Administration Committee, said the bill falls under the purview of several committees and that did not undergo enough review before heading to the floor.
“This bill is being pushed on us,” he said. “What this bill is, is a Democrat push to elect more Democrats.”
Five House committees held hearings on the bill — Judiciary, Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration — prior to the bill moving to the floor through regular order.
@neptuneblue,
neptuneblue wrote:Why won't he do his JOB?? Too scared it will pass?
His job isn't to pass nutty leftist legislation.
this **** goes way back...
@Region Philbis,
Loyalty to the President
is loyalty to the Constitution.
@MontereyJack,
The Constitution says otherwise.
The job of people who serve in the executive branch is to do what the President orders them to do.
@oralloy,
Only in accordance with the Constitution, not to obey the orders of someone who demands personal loyalty to himself above what the constitution says.
@MontereyJack,
Executive officers do have the right to resign if they feel that they are given an order that is contrary to the Constitution.
@oralloy,
Which is one of the reasons people keep bailing on the trump white hous. His unconstitutional demands
