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(7,584 posts)this has to be thrown in recons face again and again.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Well...maybe if Putin has them figure out a way to rig it so they will never lose.
Comrade Republicans intend to destroy the fabric of this country and permanently cripple us. The jig is up so they are just going to straight up do whatever the hell they planned to do all along.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It also means they feel maybe if they change enough things at the time of the vote, it could make passing it more possible.
It's clear this is a bad bill. It's going to die in the Senate - if it makes there at all.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)morning headline.."Unamerican Healthcare ACT passes at midnight..
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I have been told you can not declare "martial law" except in war time.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)FUCK YOU PAUL RYAN!
onenote
(42,759 posts)that is used to a process by which legislation is "fast tracked" in the House by moving it through the Rules Committee in one day rather than requiring the bill to sit for a day.
While the repubs seem to have grown particularly fond of it, it also was used on occasion by the Democrats when they controlled the House.
It does not mean Congress has declared a national state of martial law or anything like that.