Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-republicans-debt-limit-hostage_n_646d468fe4b0bfd64485b4ec

Isn’t it nice when Republicans come right out and tell what they are doing? Rep. Matt Gaetz came right out and condemned the deal that President Biden and McCarthy reached on the debt ceiling, manufactured, crisis by saying that the Republicans should not negotiate with their hostage.

Nice so what he is coming right out and saying is that they should not allow the country to pay the bills that they have already incurred unless every step forward that Biden has made are thrown in the dust bin. They want the full faith and credit of the United States to be down graded and potentially spin the global economy into turmoil unless they get to metaphorically kill their HOSTAGE.

My big question is how can average Americans not see exactly what they are doing? Everything that this current House has proposed and tried to do is 180° from what will actually be beneficial to the country and the people who voted them into office.

Out of the 11 bills Scalise committed to putting on the floor, the House passed six of them in the last three months:

• H.Res.11 – Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (which established a bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party)
• H.Con.Res.3 – Expressing the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches (This resolution condemned the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches)
• H.R.26 – Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (This bill ensures “infants born alive after an abortion receive the same protection of law and degree of care as any newborn”)
• H.R.22 – Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act (the bill would prohibit the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China)
• H.R.21 – Strategic Production Response Act (which prohibited non-emergency drawdowns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without a plan to increase energy production on federal lands)
• H.R.23– Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act (which would rescind tens of billions of dollars allocated to the IRS for 87,000 new IRS agents in the Inflation Reduction Act)

But there are still five bills that Republicans have either had to pull or have not been able to put on the floor schedule at all:

• H.R.27 – Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act (This bill would “create transparency in our criminal justice system by letting the public know how many cases prosecutors are declining to prosecute, the number of offenses committed by career criminals, and the number of criminals released”)
• H.Con.Res.4 – Expressing support for the Nation’s law enforcement agencies and condemning any efforts to defund or dismantle law enforcement agencies (This resolution expresses the “sincere gratitude” to law enforcement officers who protect and serve our communities and reject “misguided and dangerous efforts to defund” law enforcement)
• Border Safety and Security Act (This bill would “empower the Department of Homeland Security to turn away” undocumented migrants at the border if the Secretary of DHS does not have operational control)
• Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act (This would require the National Instant Criminal Background Check system “to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and relevant local law enforcement when a firearm transferee is illegally present in the United States”)
• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (This bill makes “permanent the long-standing Hyde Amendment as well as similar provisions to prohibit federal funding for abortion and funding for any insurance plan that includes abortion on demand”)

So basically, this House has protected corporations doing business with China, protected the unborn and the oil companies and tried to stop the IRS from being able to audit multimillionaires. These are all the things that the average citizen definitely needs.

In contrast the previous 116^th House in their first 100 days passed.

• A bill to ban discrimination against LGBTQ jurors in local D.C. courts
• A bill to make D.C. eligible for federal flood mitigation and prevention funds
• A bill to exempt D.C. courts, CSOSA, and PDS from federal government shutdowns
• A bill to protect women from wage discrimination
• A bill to prohibit employers from asking job applicants about their salary history
• A bill to sell RFK stadium site and unused federal land to the District of Columbia
• A bill to remove the federal government’s authority over District-owned land
• A bill to ban citizenship question on the 2020 census
• A bill to rehabilitate NPS parks in D.C.
• A bill to remove the Architect of the Capitol and Director of the National Park Service from the D.C. Zoning Commission
• A bill to place the D.C. seal in the Library of Congress alongside other state seals
• A bill to protect LGBTQ residents and reproductive rights in D.C. from federal attack
• A bill to give the D.C. Mayor local authority over the D.C. National Guard
• A bill to require federal buildings to provide lactation spaces to nursing mothers
• A bill to give D.C. a local prosecutor’s office, similar to other U.S. territories
• A bill to give D.C legislative autonomy, as part of her Free and Equal D.C.
• A bill to grant back pay to low-wage federal contract workers

Sad that the Republicans only seem to want cry about an inefficient government when democrats are in charge but when they hold power, they absolutely prove their theory.

Thanks again for suffering through another rant.