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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNow that Senators are self quaranteeing, suddenly Trump is looking into allowing
them to vote remotely. Great timing Trump. It might have helped to let them vote from home earlier. Now we have no idea how many are are infected.
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Now that Senators are self quaranteeing, suddenly Trump is looking into allowing (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2020
OP
What does the hell does trump have to do w/ the Senate and House voting? It's their branch of...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2020
#3
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)1. Trump has no control over what the Senate does.
The Senate controls and votes on its own rules.
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)4. Yep
It's up to Moscow Mitch to make that decision.
But I'm not surprised that The Orange One thinks he has that "power". He thinks he can do anything he wants, right?
wcmagumba
(2,886 posts)2. Even in an emergency...
how can drump "decide" how the senate votes?
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)3. What does the hell does trump have to do w/ the Senate and House voting? It's their branch of...
government, they can do whatever they want or need to do, not what the executive branch tells them.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)5. He can't do that.
Mitch McConnell could.
Trump really doesnt understand how our republic works if he said that. I did not hear it, personally.
-Laelth
malaise
(269,054 posts)6. He has no say
none , nada, zippo
Takket
(21,577 posts)7. where did you hear this? in his press conference?
applegrove
(118,683 posts)8. No. Trump said they are looking into allowing remote votes in the presser. Last week congress
was not. I made the leap.
applegrove
(118,683 posts)9. This is what I meant.