McConnell and Boehner: Here’s What We’ll Do: Pass a Bunch of Laws. Hey, Guys: Have You Ever Heard of Repealing Laws?
Why was I not terribly excited about the GOP retaking the Senate? Here’s why. Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have a piece in the Wall Street Journal setting forth their agenda, titled Now We Can Get Congress Going. Here are the first specifics offered:
These bills include measures authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will mean lower energy costs for families and more jobs for American workers; the Hire More Heroes Act, legislation encouraging employers to hire more of our nation’s veterans; and a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment, removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Let’s take these three ideas that McConnell and Boehner put front and center, one by one.
Finishing the pipeline is a good idea. It’s a government project, and new government projects are not really the key to turning around what ails this country. But I have no problem with this item. It should indeed be one of their first priorities. Good for them.
As for “Hire More Heroes” . . . this is just increased government interference in the free market. Businesses will hire you if you can provide them something that will make them money. Allowing businesses to do this in an unrestrained way — which government never does — allows businessmen to calculate profit and loss, and allocate resources in such a manner that benefits society at large. Monkey around with that and there are always unintended consequences. If veterans want to be hired, they need to provide a skill or service that the marketplace demands, not rely on artificial rules set by the federal government. Next!
Restoring “the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment” is just tinkering with ObamaCare to make it more palatable to businesses. Next!
Republicans should not be telling us about the new legislation they will pass. They should be telling us about the old legislation they will repeal — and why repealing it will help the common man. There is, low down in the bullet points in the second half of the article, the typical lip service paid to eliminating regulations and so forth. But there is no explanation as to why the free market is important, no details about how the federal government interferes with it, and no real plan to do anything about that interference. There is lip service paid to the idea of reducing our absurd and unsustainable debt, but no real plan about how to do that either.
It’s hard to believe anyone takes any of this seriously.
The last time Republicans were in control of Congress and the White House, we got a shiny new prescription drug benefit and not much that addressed our long-term problems. What will be different in 2016, even if a Republican does win?
Laws that President Obama favors won’t be repealed, period, because he will veto such legislation, and the Republicans don’t have the votes to override.
What the Republicans really need to do is to reform the appropriations process; rather than funding the government with 12 huge appropriations bills, do it with many, many, hundreds even, much smaller bills, so that they can zero out bad agencies and legislation through the appropriations process without a repeat of the President vetoing huge bills and shutting down large sections of the government, and successfully blaming the Republicans for it, as President Clinton did in 1995.
Obaminablecare? It can’t be repealed, but simply decline to fund the jobs of anyone in HHS who has any regulator authority over it at all.
The realistic Dana (f6a568) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:36 amThat’s why we got the idiotic “why are lesbians fat” research program, because stupidity like that gets hidden in big bills.
The Republicans also need to do two-year appropriations: do half of the government for one year, and the other half for two, so that an every-two-years cycle can be started, with only half of the budget process occurring in any given year.
The sadly realistic Dana (f6a568) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:38 amTeam R desperately needs new leadership
They just have inertia and stagnation and that’s not what people voted for
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:56 amMitch McConnell and John Boehner are looking for things that can get 70 to 75 votes in the Senate.
Sammy Finkelman (c5cea5) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:56 amNo freaking shinola. What precisely have Feds done this century we can live with?
Git ‘er undone.
DNF (46af08) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:59 amAlso I don’t see why veterans should have hiring preferences that’s just sleazy
They’re no more or less worthy of a job than anyone else
But that’s failmerica for you
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:59 amThey should also finish Yucca Mountain, as a present for Reid.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:14 amstupid people have stupid ideas…and neither one of these idiots is ever going to be in danger of receiving a MENSA application. (just a “menso” one. %-)
redc1c4 (6d1848) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:18 amI do hope that McConnell isn’t going to do the same as Reid, and refuse to bring GOP legislation to the floor.
I can live with Boehner, I think, but McConnell doesn’t have any fire left at all. Sure, it won’t be Ted Cruz, but a Rob Portman or Bob Corker or John Thune might work a lot better. Not, I think, the Whip Cornyn.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:22 amMy really really hoped for change is that the new Senate Majority leader is not the same purple as the Senate Minority leader, and that there is a change (almost any change) in the House Majority leader.
Seniority should mean “it’s someone else’s turn.” Preferably someone with cojones (like, Maggie!)
Dan (00fc90) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:23 ambut a Rob Portman or Bob Corker or John Thune might work a lot better
Portman was last seen arguing that matrimonial law should be folded, spindled, and mutiliated to accommodate burlesques because his son is self-declared as someone addled by sexual perversions. Wish he’d work his way into retirement.
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:27 amWhether you ‘pass’ a law or ‘repeal’ one, it’s a session law which alters language in the U.S. Code. Shouldn’t the question be whether or not the change in the Code was salutary?
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:30 am“It’s a government project, and new government projects are not really the key to turning around what ails this country.”
Patterico – Did I miss something? When did the Keystone Pipeline become a public sector project?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:36 amWho knows federal administrative law? Is Obama’s signature necessary on a Joint Resolution to the en banc DC Circuit telling it that no further action is necessary on the three judge panel’s construction of the ACA in Halbig?
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:37 amnk – What’s your point? Who is paying for the project and who will own it?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:56 amWhenever I see a cutesy name like “Hire More Heroes” I think more pandering, more waste, complete lack of substance. Vets already have tons of preferences!
Yes, I don’t want more cutesy laws, I want laws repealed!
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:02 am“Restoring “the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment” is just tinkering with ObamaCare to make it more palatable to businesses. Next!”
Patterico – If you don’t like distortions in markets caused by government interference, look no further than Obamacare and the labor market since 2010. The ratio of part-time jobs created is a multiple of full-time jobs created as a result of the byzantine rules of Obamacare for calculating who is and how many full-time employees a business has. If Congress does not have the political appetite for a full repeal of the ACA, I have no problem with legislation effectively repealing one onerous section which has caused incredible distortions in hiring behavior, effectively taking discrimination testing for benefits back to the pre-Obamacare era.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:05 amWhat else does a professional legislator do but legislate? That’s their purpose. If they aren’t adding to the pile of laws they obviously aren’t doing their jobs.
Richard (01a2f5) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:08 amdaleyrocks?
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:17 amnk?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:25 amnk – What was your #14 in reference to?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:28 amThe ACA is Obamacare.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:34 amHalbig is the lawsuit challenging the federal exchanges created by HHS regulations.
The three-judge panel threw the regulations out as not in accordance with Congress’s statute.
The full DC Circuit is hearing the case en banc.
Congress can construe its own statute and say the three-judge panel is right and no further action is necessary by the full circuit en banc.
Does Obama need to sign such a joint resolution?
Hey, Art, marriage is already diced and sliced. Did you not get the memo?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:34 amnk – I know what the ACA and Halbig are but your reference to administrative law could have been to several comments.
My apologies if I misinterpreted your intent.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:45 amHey, Art, marriage is already diced and sliced. Did you not get the memo?
Therefore I should favor politicians who put up no resistance to the legal profession, who fancy that it makes them look like something other than idiots when they say that social institutions and moral understandings should be driven by their callow children’s problems, and, whom, in general, conduct themselves like inane careerists?
Art Deco (ee8de5) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:48 amI’m trying to be as terse as possible because there’s no knowing what California will be taxing next. It could very well be words in a blog comment. You heard about Berkeley’s penny per ounce tax on sugary drinks, right?
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:57 amreduce regulation, de-politicize the EPA, IRS, FEC, CDC, FCC, FBI, CIA, etc., through upper and mid-level management changes, firings and any other useful tool.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2014 @ 10:37 amYou have to pass laws to repeal laws?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 10:41 amI agree with you on the work week issue, daleyrocks. Full repeal would be vetoed, so why not serve up the changes that the public wants first?
Eventually it will wreck the ACA, so let’s do it.
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/6/2014 @ 11:46 amThe ACA is already wrecked. The only things that will stand are the removal of the preexisting conditions exclusion, rates set mainly by age, and probably the removal of lifetime caps. The question is how do you create a workable private healthcare system with those rules. The way Obamacare does it is terrible, Balkanizing a Balkanized system in several new ways, and imposing a great deal of unneeded federal and state government oversight.
Kevin M (56aae1) — 11/6/2014 @ 12:00 pmThan you for this post,Patterico; it is exactly how I feel. R’s taking back the Senate is only a means to an end, not an end in itself.
felipe (b5e0f4) — 11/6/2014 @ 12:07 pmThe realistic Dana (f6a568) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:36 am
I agree, honerable Dana! End the continuing resolutions, and get back to the real budget process.
felipe (b5e0f4) — 11/6/2014 @ 12:10 pmSubmitting a “million” appropriation bills for the Pres to veto will really wear him down! Who is the party of “no”, again?
felipe (b5e0f4) — 11/6/2014 @ 12:12 pmThe absolutely easiest way to get the ACA fixed is to drop all government workers into it. Then wait.
Kevin M (56aae1) — 11/6/2014 @ 1:06 pmThe Keystone pipeline isn’t a government project. It will be constructed by an Australian firm and owned by a Canadian firm, if approved. Getting foreign investment is one of the remedies to what ails your country (albeit only a very small start).
Arctic_Attorney (ca8755) — 11/6/2014 @ 1:17 pmThat’s legislation I would definitely support. In fact, make them live by all the rules they impose on us. And an IRS audit of every Democratic lawmaker, Cabinet member, and their staffs.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/6/2014 @ 1:59 pmAgreed, agreed, make Congress and Congressional employees live by the same laws they impose on the public.
Any Repubs who don’t agree get primary opponents.
There is no letting up by the progressives,
we need to be always messaging, always be aware of the political games, just keep our politicking secondary to communicating truth as opposed to maneuvering for power.
Send up clear stuff to the WH, if it gets vetoed, the public can see who is being obstructionist.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:13 pmAgain and again.
This really ought to be a defining moment in American politics. The people should demand that all elected officials and their employees are affected by every law the same as any member of the general public. Anyone , Dem or Repub, should be sent packing the next election cycle.
Maybe there is a downside to that which I am not aware of, happy to hear it if there is.
One other law I’d like to see passed. Anyone who makes a public comment amount taxes being too low gets an automatic 10% added on in every income category (Mr. Buffett). The second time, an additional 15% and audits yearly for 5 years, at the taxpayers expense.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:20 pmObama did it with insurmountable deductibles.
Why does’t Congress enable a cheap major medical plan and let people pay for what they need as they go along for flu shots and sinus infections?
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:21 pmre: #34… excellent point, Kevin M!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:36 pmI haven’t read the comments so I apologize if this has been linked before. George Will
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:45 pmMeghan’s coward daddy’s first priority is to end sequestration do he can slop slop slop the pentagon piggies
Team R in the majority is kind of a sick sad joke huh
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:50 pm*so* he can slop slop slop I mean
I wish I had real internet is hard to make the comments on stupid phone
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 2:52 pmBut it’s reeeaaaallllyyyyy!!!!!! important that we vote for whatever duplicitous RINO hack buys the nomination in 2016. Reeeaaaaalllllyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! important.
ThOR (5d4ee2) — 11/6/2014 @ 3:14 pmwell remember sequestration was Obama’s idea, pikachu, Cruz’s agenda is more interesting than this thin gruel,
narciso (ee1f88) — 11/6/2014 @ 3:41 pmAmerica’s whorish spending is a big get threat than isis
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 3:56 pmbigger threat I mean
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:01 pmElections have consequences. Implementation of the law approving fracking in Southern Illinois which was passed some time ago by the General Assembly has been being held up and stalled and dragged through a lengthy process of public hearings and rules development. Almost miraculously the rules suddenly were fine as is, and went through today without further debate. The environmentalists who have been violently opposed fracking were apparently a bit shocked. Coincidence? I think not. (New R governor was elected Tuesday)
elissa (e9175b) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:09 pmdon’t tell the spendpublicans about the new revenue elissa let’s just keep that under our hat
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:16 pmhttp://www.sltrib.com/home/1794475-155/energy-oil-carolina-gas-public-federal
That is another story about oil and jobs and such
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:44 pmPeople like low gas prices. More than they like arugula-munching tree-huggers. Trader Joe’s was advertising its mini veggie burgers as a Halloween treat up here. For the kids trick or treating. They actually spent money on radio ads to do that. Talk about being disconnected.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 4:49 pmnk, Trader Joe’s opened near me.
Went in to look around. They have nothing I could not get at Publix, and usually better quality at Publix. Only thing Publix did not have is the Fair Trade seal of approval.
but TJ will have kosher turkeys for Thanksgiving. Only I do not eat turkey. Get enough turkeys in politics.
kishnevi (3719b7) — 11/6/2014 @ 5:50 pmGood one, kishnevi.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/6/2014 @ 5:51 pmThe prepackaged salads at trader joes are special
Just really superlative
happyfeet (09ace0) — 11/6/2014 @ 5:53 pmHow does one not fund individual jobs? The budget doesn’t get that granular. One of those people would have to be the HHS Secretary.
Gerald A (d65c67) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:00 pm#55
When I say the budget doesn’t get that granular, I mean at the legislative level of course.
Gerald A (d65c67) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:02 pmWe would have to pay them minimum wage, at least, but I think it’s only the President whose compensation cannot be decreased while he’s in office. I wonder if that includes greens fees by law.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:12 pmOil is now under $80/bbl. Do we really need the Keystone Pipeline, or is fracking technology producing so much domestic oil that we don’t need Canadian oil anymore?
ropelight (82990f) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:24 pmThey should repeal Obamacare, and Dodd-Frank, which may actually be worse in its economic impact. Obama would veto the repeals of course but how could the GOP Presidential candidate in 2016 campaign on the idea that Obama has screwed up the economy if they don’t even attempt to repeal the two biggest things he’s done? Of course this would require some strategic thinking which Repubs aren’t generally good at.
Gerald A (d65c67) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:29 pmI say take the Canadian oil if the price is right. There are only so many dead dinosaurs for one thing; and when the Canadians use up their reserves we can sell them our fracked oil at our price for another. Meantime, the Arabs can drink theirs.
nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:50 pmMitt Romney had an ad that said he would apply tariffs so the Chinese wouldn’t harm America, and wondered at the time why he would put that in his platform when about zero Americans cared about it.
Denver Todd (77a6d5) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:08 pmOne good bill to pass would be to block the Obama EPA from their war on coal. I’ll be astounded if WV’s new Republican Senator doesn’t propose that. Maybe that’s one of those bills Reid has been blocking. That would be hard for a few Democrats like Manchin to oppose so it could be portrayed as bipartisan.
Gerald A (d65c67) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:19 pmIt is hilarious how the same people who have constantly mocked and disparaged our leadership for at least the last four years, supported primary challengers to them, and generally talked about them like dogs, now somehow assume they have some input on the party’s direction.
***NEWS FLASH*** We don’t care what you think. You proved yourselves unreliable allies, openly wishing for the defeat of our incumbents like Boehner, McConnell, Roberts, and Cochran. But guess what? All those guys are winners, and you wacko birds are losers. Wake up to reality.
As for all your delightfully tempting suggestions, fold them five ways and put ’em where the sun don’t shine, Bucko.
Estragon (ada867) — 11/6/2014 @ 7:52 pm“Oil is now under $80/bbl. Do we really need the Keystone Pipeline, or is fracking technology producing so much domestic oil that we don’t need Canadian oil anymore?”
ropelight – I believe it was mostly destined for the export market in any event, not staying in the U.S.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:05 pm6. Reading fellow commenters can be a complete waste people.
Pick up your game.
DNF (359daa) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:07 pmEstragon – Interesting point. It seems the definition of the party’s “base” has never really been established, although people are happy to claim its mantle.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:10 pmOil is now under $80/bbl. Do we really need the Keystone Pipeline, or is fracking technology producing so much domestic oil that we don’t need Canadian oil anymore?
Oil is fungible. Being able to move it around easily is not. Oil you cannot get to market is oil that doesn’t exist.
Maybe they have another way to move it by now, or are building another pipeline, but in this one case I think we should build the pipeline anyway and route it through as many sacred ecocows as possible.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:31 pmNo offense, Genius, your Pillars just managed to win a battle, to occupy one third of government by playing dead, in being invisible and harmless.
The cloak just went.down. Today it occurs to them they could use a plan.
DNF (359daa) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:32 pm#66:
So what IS the party base? Is it still the evangelicals and/or values voters, or have they seen their day? Is it the TEAs? Or is big government OK now, so long as it does rightish things?
You might say “conservatives” except that 1) the word has little meaning, and 2) the GOP has only had conservative moments, it’s mostly just center-right.
Where do the immigration warriors fit in? We are probably going to find out soon.
What set of core beliefs are requited to be a “Republican”?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:37 pm68: first you say we need to step up our game, then you throw down this jumble of words.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:38 pm70. Admitting one is obtuse does not move the ball forward.
DNF (359daa) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:47 pmMy apologies 68 was directed at 63.
McConnell reiterates fights are politically hazardous and survival will not be risked.
DNF (359daa) — 11/6/2014 @ 8:53 pmEstragon, I think it was a case of TP folks and so-called moderates putting their differences aside to fight for a good cause, namely ridding the country of this plague called “contemporary liberalism”. These differences are petty considering what is at stake. I do wonder if we’ll see any of the pettifogging and soapbox bloviating that went on around here for a number of months after the 2012 election.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:04 pmThis cooperation was the smart play and people like Ted Cruz did a wonderful job campaigning for folks who some of the more vocal folks around these parts wouldn’t piss on if their hair was on fire. I liked him before and respect him even more now.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 11/6/2014 @ 9:10 pm“Oil is now under $80/bbl. Do we really need the Keystone Pipeline, or is fracking technology producing so much domestic oil that we don’t need Canadian oil anymore?”
The idea that a market good like oil should be regulated by the government based on what third parties deem is “needed” is worthy of Obama and like-minded apparatchiks. To frame the Keystone Pipeline debate in such terms is anti-competitive and anti-American (at least in the traditional sense of what America stands for). Steven Chu, Obama’s first Energy Secretary, thought gasoline should sell for over $8 per gallon and he has impeccable credential. Who among us pajama-clad commenters knows better than Chu about what we do and do not need? The whole point of this American experiment is to let private individuals make such decisions unmolested by the likes of authoritarians like Chu.
ThOR (5d4ee2) — 11/6/2014 @ 10:14 pm#30: preexisting conditions:
In one of the Swiss cantons there are two pools, ‘normal risk’ and ‘high risk’. if you are ‘normal risk’ you choose your insurer. If you are high risk you are assigned an insurer by the Canton, which divides high risk, high cost customers between insurers on the basis of market share. This means insurance rates are set on an ‘all population’ basis, which is reasonably fair to customers, suppliers, and the taxpayers who would have to pick up the tab for ‘uninsured, can’t pay’ cases.
Robbo (2988c2) — 11/7/2014 @ 1:53 amThe Democrats are no longer a happy family. And how interesting to find out it’s the Democrats who have been the source of many leaks.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/7/2014 @ 4:16 am“He” just couldn’t stand not to have it be about “him”. “His” policies had to be on the ballot. Good move, SCOAMF!
And I didn’t know mamacita was spelled with a “c”. 😉 That guy really still hasn’t conceded? At least he didn’t say “mammies”, so that’s something.
nk (dbc370) — 11/7/2014 @ 4:59 amResults not surprising. Boehner – “Mr K Street” – has to pay off the guys who hold the note on his mortgaged keister.
These crooks are slightly better than the other crooks, but the one guiding principle, with the strength of the Laws of Physics and enforced by the Gods of the Copybook Headings, is that they’re all crooks.
As far as “Hire Heroes” goes — as a combat vet I’m sick of people treating vets as something akin to the urban underclass: helpless waifs that need endless handouts (and bear considerable watching). If you’re smart, in business, you hire vets. Yep, the same vets that other businesses are rejecting because of that media-generated “tripwire vet” meme and all the PTSD bullshit. Then you use their experience and talents to walk all over your competitors, in the marketplace, fair and square. You’ll be like the major league baseball teams who were first to discover there was untapped talent in the segregated Negro Leagues.
Kevin R.C. O'Brien (e2d5eb) — 11/7/2014 @ 5:21 amGood news on the energy front in my home state of Illinois, elissa!
I hope the new governor really changes things there, not like our Arnold S. failed to.
Patricia (5fc097) — 11/7/2014 @ 9:03 am30. Kevin M (56aae1) — 11/6/2014 @ 12:00 pm
The ACA is already wrecked. The only things that will stand are the removal of the preexisting conditions exclusion
President Obama claims that with the removal of the preexisting conditions exclusion, you need the individual mandate in order to create a solvent private insurance system. No you don’t.
rates set mainly by age,
What the ACA did with that, was limit that, so that the highest charge for any age group could not be more than 3 times the charge for the lowest age group. But otherwise it is up to the states.
In New York State all age groups must be charged the same rate for health insurance, and that is why many New Yorkers found that the PPACA lowered their individual health insurance premiums.
A few other conditions, like smoking, can be used to adjust rates under the PPACA.
and probably the removal of lifetime caps.
Lifetime caps doesn’t sound it make too sense, but that caused people and insurance companies to econmize, and if someone exceeds it, they can probably declare bankruptcy and go onto Medicaid.
The question is how do you create a workable private healthcare system with those rules.
Right. What you do is you take some medical payments outside of the insurance system, in one way or another.
The way Obamacare does it is terrible.
Exactly, exactly.
Sammy Finkelman (89ef89) — 11/7/2014 @ 9:50 am57. nk (dbc370) — 11/6/2014 @ 6:12 pm
No, the compensation of the president cannot be diminished, and, since 1992, neither that of any member of Congress.
Sammy Finkelman (89ef89) — 11/7/2014 @ 9:56 amOne bill they might try passing is one authorizing all, or most of the changes that barack Obama has made so far to the PPACA. They could also make a few minor adjustments. If Obama vetoed that, seixing on some small thing, they could re-pass it with no additions (and maybe a few omissions they didn’t like) Democrats would have a hard time not voting for it, either on initial passage or override.
They could similarly pass a bill repealing marijuana laws when they conflicted with a state’s law.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 11/7/2014 @ 12:04 pmThey would be making their point then.