How (and when) will the Government Shutdown end?

When Democrats blatantly blocked all of W's nominees in 2007-08, did the Republicans forgive and forget, or did they block Obama's Supreme Court pick and give it to a Republican president?

Your lie or (is it ignorance) is utterly atrocious. A five year old could have easily fact checked your terrible mistake.

tsarstepan wrote:

Your lie or (is it ignorance) is utterly atrocious. A five year old could have easily fact checked your terrible mistake.

As usual, everything that I said is the truth.

When Democrats blatantly blocked all of W's nominees in 2007-08, did the Republicans forgive and forget, or did they block Obama's Supreme Court pick and give it to a Republican president?

"Since Democrats took control of Congress a year ago, the battle of wills over nominations has left many high-level vacancies unfilled throughout the federal government. For example, the Federal Election Commission is unable to act officially because it does not have the required quorum."

On Monday evening, something exceptional happened in the Senate: Lawmakers confirmed a Circuit Court judge nominated by President Barack Obama. Luis Felipe Restrepo of Pennsylvania became only the second Circuit Court judge approved in the past year, and the 12th federal judge overall, an approval rate slower than any time since 1969.

Now, conservatives are demanding that Restrepo — who had a critical booster in GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania — be the last Obama nominee confirmed before the president leaves office.

Blocking nominations has often been a unifying objective for McConnell’s conference, particularly after Democrats under then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) jammed through more than 100 judges when they last controlled the chamber. In retaliation, McConnell is setting a new low for confirming presidential nominees: In 2015, the Senate confirmed 173 total civilian nominees, according to the Congressional Research Service, about 100 fewer than were confirmed in 2007 when a Democratic Senate took over during the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency.

The same will be true if Trump is denied a State of the Union address.

Instead, the address was written and then sent to Congress to be read by a clerk until 1913 when Woodrow Wilson re-established the practice despite some initial controversy, and an in-person address to Congress has been delivered nearly every year since.

that people's livelihoods and families are caught up in this political crap.

Canada is going to take in more than 1 million new immigrants in the next 3 years

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked legislation on Wednesday that would reopen most of the government currently closed during the partial shutdown.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) went to the Senate floor to ask for consent to take up the House-passed bill that would fund every agency and department impacted by the partial shutdown, except the Department of Homeland Security, through Sept. 30.

McConnell, however, objected. It's the fourth time he's blocked the bill to reopen most of government. He has also blocked, as recently as Tuesday, a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8.

Democrats have been coming to the floor on a near-daily basis while the Senate is in session to try to bring up the House package, even though the GOP leader has said he will not allow them to come to the Senate floor.

Under Senate rules any one senator can try to pass a bill, but any one senator can also object.

The partial government shutdown, which is currently in its 33rd day, is impacting roughly a quarter of the government and forcing approximately 800,000 employees to work without pay or be furloughed.

The back-and-forth on the floor comes a day before the Senate is expected to hold votes on dueling proposals that would fully reopen the government.

The first proposal, which is backed by the White House, includes $5.7 billion for the wall in exchange for a three-year extension of protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients and some Temporary Protected Status holders.

McConnell is publicly pushing Democrats to support that proposal, even though it's expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

"The president went out of his way to include additional items that have been priority areas for Democrats," McConnell said on Wednesday.

If that White House-backed measure does not get 60 votes, the Senate will then take a second vote on a proposal to temporarily reopen the government with a continuing resolution (CR) through Feb. 8.

Democrats say that President Trump has to reopen the government before they will negotiate. They worry that making a deal while the government is closed would set the precedent for shutting down the government as a negotiating tactic.

But that bill is also unlikely to get 60 votes. The Senate passed a CR to fund a quarter of the government through Feb. 8 by voice vote late last year, but Trump then came out against the measure.

McConnell blocks bill to reopen most of government.

It's wasteful and the money he is asking for would not even be enough to build a whole wall along the southern border.

Does building the wall make the 11,000,000 undocumented immigrants in the country disappear?

You would have saved yourself the time if simply said, I disagree with everything in your post.

Trump has refused to accept less fifty some billion he has asked for the dumb wall. Democrats are not in favor of funding for an actual wall, but they are in favor of security measures along the border (including the southern border. There really is no where to negotiate on those two opposing viewpoints.

Trump should not have used the Government budget to take hostages for his wall funding.

He should have funded the government and then continued to talk about compromises.

But since he didn't get his way, he pouted his lips and folded up his arms and said, he would be proud to own the shutdown. Well, here it is. He owns it.

There are already structures in place, fencing, those could be reinforced and perhaps some fencing put up at other places and other technical security measures put in place where needed. Those are sensible compromises. Trump just wants a blank check with no real planning out what is needed and what is not. It's wasteful and the money he is asking for would not even be enough to build a whole wall along the southern border.