It was a dark and stormy night, in chambers of congress, when the winter winds came early ... like some craggy old man sending back soup, in a deli ...
Omnibus stalled by nearly 100 House GOP policy riders, Reid says
by Alexander Bolton, thehill.com -- December 10. 2014
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that House Republicans are pushing to add nearly 100 different policy riders to the omnibus spending bill, stalling it shortly before Thursday’s deadline.
Reid said he is prepared to vote on a short-term funding bill to keep the government open beyond Dec. 11, when it is scheduled to expire.
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“Maybe we’ll have to work the weekend and maybe even work next week. I know that’s tough duty for everybody but we may have to do that,” he said.
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They include proposals to overturn the District of Columbia’s legalization of marijuana and to soften the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill.
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Oh Noes! Not that. They have Vacation-time to take!
Here are but a few of those hundred or so, "Riders on the Bill" ...
What’s in the spending bill? We skim it so you don’t have to
by Ed O'Keefe, washingtonpost.com -- December 10. 2014
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AFFORDABLE CARE ACT:
The law is still funded, but there's no new money for it. There's also no new ACA-related funding for the Internal Revenue Service and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the two agencies most responsible for implementing the law. The bill also would cut the budget of the Independent Payment Advisory Board -- what Republicans have called "the death panel" -- by $10 million.
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE:
The bill would dramatically expand the amount of money that wealthy political donors could inject into the national parties, drastically undercutting the 2002 landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance overhaul. Bottom line: A donor who gave the maximum $32,400 this year to the Democratic National Committee or Republican National Committee would be able to donate another $291,600 on top of that to the party’s additional arms -- a total of $324,000, ten times the current limit. Read more on this here.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY:
The agency gets $8.1 billion, down $60 million from the last fiscal year. The agency's budget has been slashed by $2.2 billion, or 21 percent, since fiscal 2010, according to GOP aides. The cuts mean that EPA will have to reduce its staffing to the lowest levels since 1989.
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LIGHT BULBS: {... freedom for same ...}
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PENSIONS:
For the first time, the benefits of current retirees could be severely cut, part of an effort to save some of the nation’s most distressed pension plans. The change would alter 40 years of federal law and could affect millions of workers, many of them part of a shrinking corps of middle-income employees in businesses such as trucking, construction and supermarkets. Read more on this here.
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That's what you call
making hay, when the sun don't shine ...
Riders on the Storm -- The Doors HD
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Riders on the Bill .... Riders on the Bill ... into this world they're thrown ...
Just SAY NO to congressional give-aways to Wall Street.
At ElizabethWarren.com
Stop the Republicans' Wall Street giveaway
by Elizabeth Warren -- December 10, 2014
Do it now.