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Northwest · M
A lot. For instance, on Friday, McCarthy passed a bill to keep the government open.
@Northwest Oh. Okay. McCarthy passed it.
Spotpot · 41-45, M
@Northwest It should be the easiest job for a house speaker its no accomplishment,
Northwest · M
@Spotpot I was being sarcastic.

Graylight · 51-55, F
Well, here's a rundown of how they've kept busy:
Republicans want to[b] change how ballots are counted[/b], taking aim at electronic voting machines. This comes along with several other bills suggesting changes in vote counting as well as where and how people may vote.

Other legislators attempted to[b] usurp power over elections[/b].
In some states, Republicans introduced measures that would have increased their power over elections. Missouri and Texas both saw bills aimed at bifurcating elections, with entirely separate registration lists and ballots between federal and state elections.

Proposals in both states were intended to circumvent Congress’ ability to regulate federal elections; rather than allow state elections to conform with federal rules, these lawmakers prefer to keep state elections entirely separate to maintain their control.

They've [b]eliminated voting options[/b], which historically affects voting in impoverished areas. Schools and voting don’t mix, according to Republicans.
Public schools are commonly used for polling locations across the country; they’re large, easily accessible and generally well-known to local communities. Yet some Republicans have decided that we shouldn’t allow voting there.

Bills in New Jersey, New York and Texas would have banned placing polling locations at public schools, removing a convenient and common location for voting. Travis County, Texas (home to the state capital of Austin), for example, had 38 polling locations at schools last year. All of those would have to be relocated if such a ban were enacted.

And then there was the slew of bills about the environment and climate change. A succession of recent hearings laid out the blueprint for coordinated attacks on public lands and climate progress, together with measures that will blunt opportunities for public input. House Republicans have now wrapped these bad bills into a single, behemoth package, H.R. 1, which opponents have dubbed the "Polluters Over People Act". Listing it as H.R. 1 signifies that Republicans' top priority this legislative session is pushing aggressively pro-drilling and mining bills that will make us take a huge step back on combatting climate change, undermining recent successes and decimating the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).And public lands are square in their sights. Republicans [b]plan to roll back 2022 climate progress [/b]

There are measures included like silencing community voices, fast-tracking mining and relaxing toxic waste standards. Think of it as ugliness and toxin leaking from the groundwater. This is where the vileness begins to become legal.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
@Graylight why isn't churches or community halls used for voting in my town we all vote at the community center. Plus election day is almost always on a school day so does that not disrupt school activities and allow unauthorized ppl into the school
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Mountainlady16 Hello darkness, my old friend. Been a while.

The issue isn't so much what [i]type [/i]of venue is used but, rather, whether moving, erasing or otherwise tweaking the election process makes it more difficult for people typically closer to poverty and with dark skin.

Your ideas aren't bad ones, but the force behind voting laws recently has worked to [i]disclude [/i] some American voters.
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trollslayer · 46-50, M
Remember, to the GOP, not doing something or repealing something is considered an accomplishment. Over the past few decades, they have morphed their platform to one that is simply "stop the democrats from changing the county". To this end, they have accomplished much.
TrashCat · M
Aside from distracting us with silly culture wars and being hellbent on revenge...

I'm at a loss
PhilDeep · 51-55, M
Sounds like a trick question with no correct answer 🤔
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
Business as usual. Taking orders from the billionaires, nothing to improve the lives of normal people, becoming wealthier from pointless foreign wars and stock market manipulation.
Apparently for just five percent of the defense budget, we've enabled Ukraine to eliminate half the Russian military.
eli1601 · 70-79, M
Blocked the Democrat agenda
TrashCat · M
@eli1601 Name a current one. Your comment is weak af
@eli1601 [quote]We have had 230 years of government solutions. Do we really need more? The less government does, the better.[/quote]
So then you'll have no problem renouncing your American citizenship and going to live in the wilderness somewhere.
eli1601 · 70-79, M
@LordShadowfire I have no problem living where the federal government does almost nothing. In fact, let's cut the number of people in Congress from 535 down to 267. For a start.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
About the same as when the demoncraps had it. The uniparty only fools the oblivious
TrashCat · M
@hippyjoe1955 Sit down, Canadian Putin lover
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@TrashCat I will. No point trying to talk intelligently with idiots like you. Have a nice oblivion.
TrashCat · M
@hippyjoe1955 Because we stoop to your level. You can't even understand your own logic
Spotpot · 41-45, M
The diffrence between McCarthy and Pelosi couldent be diffrent in terms of comptence and efficency.
Lostpoet · M
I don't follow politics
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
You can't expect much because they don't have the Senate. But also... a whole lot of infighting.

Apparently Gaetz is filling a motion to vacate for McCarthy and the Ethics board is opening an investigation over whether to expel Gaetz.

This is after the impeachment inquiry with hundreds of pages of "evidence" that didn't actually indicate any crimes, which was after the Boebert Beetlejuice debacle.

It's like Capitol Hill has hired some soap opera writers.
Renaci · 36-40
Moving the country toward either the anarchist or theocratic forms of government.
SamInAZ · 41-45, M
Our system was set up to make it hard to pass legislation. I am glad that our government cannot just do anything they want...
Both Dems & Pubs.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@SamInAZ 20+ years ago they got it done…
SamInAZ · 41-45, M
@trollslayer Not really. If that were the case, why are the problems of 20 years ago still like they had been 20 years ago?

 
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