>I have a bad feeling about this. If trump tweets this this probably means that he thinks the Republicans will lose the mid-terms so he is already looking for someone to blame.. lol no this is bait to get in front of the Democrats and enact strict voter ID that ruins all of their plans.a
>this is the democrat way of preparing for a trump victory. blame it on anyone (the russians in this instance) or anything except for the actions and policies regarding hillary and her campaign. this is the same woman who said the election couldnt be rigged. and then she lost, so theres no way it wasn't rigged. >im old enough to remember that last october obama was up on stage saying elections cant be rigged.
> House GOP leaders are reneging on a vow to hold an immigration vote before the August recess, a move that puts House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a particularly awkward spot as he seeks to become the next speaker. < In June, McCarthy (R-Calif.) personally promised several rank-and-file members a vote on a new guest-worker program for farmers, an offer backed by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). < The assurance was critical at the time: It persuaded Reps. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.) and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) not to sign on to an effort — which Republican leaders were desperately trying to stop — to force a vote on legislation creating a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, the immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. < The so-called discharge petition ultimately fell two signatures short. > But now, Republican leaders have no plans to take up the guest-worker program before the summer break, according to four sources in leadership. > Ryan does not want to hold a vote that’s certain to fail, they said — though proponents of the guest-worker bill said McCarthy’s original promise to hold a vote was unconditional.
> “That was not the deal; the deal was that we’re taking it up regardless,” Ross said Monday afternoon, arguing that the lack of 218 votes shouldn’t preclude the promised vote. > “There are those of us [who] need to go back [home] and show that we’re doing all we can to do what we said we would do."
> After meeting with Ryan late Monday evening, Ross emerged with a different tune. > Ryan and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) had promised him to not only hold the vote this fall, but try to muster the 218 votes to actually pass the measure. If waiting ensures passage rather than a mere "show-vote," he said, it's worth it.
I wish Japan would fully remilitarize, because the anime propaganda would be amazing.
Jeremiah Perry
He's so fucking proud to be standing with a real President
Carson Nguyen
>Illinois Probably from Shitago.
Leo Turner
THIS IS THE BEST TIMELINE oh my god we are so blessed
Juan Flores
I've never really understood the appeal of reddit. It's a very lackluster platform, and it doesn't really offer any feature, which you can't find on any other social media site.
The cia engirneered femin virus actually makes women want to be men and in charge? Wtf
Ryan Rivera
God dammit, I'm going to have to play Elite Dangerous again.
Charles Cruz
Well every other country on the planet tariffs the US so if everyone agrees to get rid of their tariffs regulations and currency manipulations them we should do away with tariffs as well
Chase Morris
Good or bad?
Thomas Lewis
based veteran
Logan Allen
Still, the standoff puts McCarthy in a bind. > He’s been asking members to support him for speaker next year, when Ryan is set to retire. < But the broken promise could alienate some would-be allies, especially if leadership doesn't follow through on the latest promise. > Complicating matters is a disagreement in the California delegation over the merits of the bill. > While several California Republicans helped negotiate the provisions, most are wary of backing the legislation because it includes a new requirement that all employers verify the legal status of their workers, known as E-Verify.
- Indeed, McCarthy and the entire California delegation have been under pressure from agriculture groups in the state calling on them to reject the guest-worker bill. > They fear the E-Verify requirement would make it too difficult to find eligible workers. > And the groups in recent weeks have called on McCarthy to use his leadership position to scrap the bill from floor consideration entirely, according to the California Farm Bureau's Josh Rolph, who's been in touch with McCarthy's staff.
> "As the highest-ranking Californian in the U.S. Congress whose district lies within the most productive agricultural region in the nation, we want to reinforce to you that implementation of this bill would devastate food production in our state," more than 30 California agriculture groups wrote in a letter sent to McCarthy on Monday.
> Supporters of the measure believe those groups got through to McCarthy, who keeps the House floor schedule.
Joshua Nelson
Not gonna lie, I have a soft spot for sad old people. Unlike kids they actually have to live through getting weaker and feeling more useless in their day to day lives.
> “It’s clear that there are constituencies in California that are trying to kill the bill, and are using their relationships in Congress to try to kill it,” said one Republican aide supporting the measure, who asked not to be named.
- McCarthy allies called that nonsense, pointing out that McCarthy voted for previous immigration bills that the same California agriculture groups opposed. - The No. 2 Republican, they say, has no problem going up against home-state agriculture interests when needed — and the decision not to hold a vote has nothing to do with the groups, they said.
< Several leadership sources outside McCarthy's office said some of the very members who support the legislation have asked them not to hold the vote because they don't want the bill to fail; > instead, they want more time to garner support. > "We have every intention of voting on this," McCarthy's spokesman Matt Sparks said in a statement. > "After discussions between leadership and a broad coalition of members it was decided more work needs to be done and should be done to gather the support necessary to pass the legislation."
< Opposition among leadership to an imminent vote is not limited to McCarthy. < It was Ryan who first told Ross, Newhouse and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) on Thursday that he did not want to have a vote on a bill that would fail. < Instead, Ryan put the onus on the trio, who wrote the bill, to show him there were 218 votes for passage, according to Ross and one other person familiar with the meeting.
