116th United States Congress: The Shutdown is Pelosi's Fault

[6souls]

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...239509193.html

Idaho senator Jim Risch (Rep) was caught sleeping during the impeachment trial.

In its live online play-by-play of the first day of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate, The Washington Post reported shortly after 5:30 p.m., Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Risch “could be seen from the press gallery motionless.”

That’s about four hours after the proceedings began, and the snooze lasted about 15 minutes, the Post noted.

Art Lien, a courtroom sketch artist, is putting his talent to work for The New York Times during the impeachment trial. The sketch artist captured Risch in a scene he captioned, “Senators Crapo, Risch (catching a few winks) and Blount, 1-21-20 ...”

“When Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) cued up video of testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Risch briefly perked up, but quickly closed his eyes again,” according to the Post.

Thanks to McConnell, cameras are not allowed during the proceedings, so there is only a sketch of the incident.

[Tarage]

Can the next title just be "Cowards"?

[Cantih]

Come the final vote Wednesday, I'm in favor of "Oathbreakers"

[6souls]

Rep Kent Calfee of Tennessee

[Zealot]

Is that a Hershey's syrup bottle, what a legend.

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[6souls]

Is that a Hershey's syrup bottle, what a legend.

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And he's using it to wash down cheese crackers.

[Byrthnoth]

And he's using it to wash down cheese crackers.

wtf is wrong with that man

[Athas]

Diabetes I imagine.

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[Psion]

funny thing is, i just found out my fasting insulin level is 73.1, when its supposed to be 25 or lower. so i guess i have pre-prediabetes myself? my dietitian had perscribed topiramate since it has a side effect of weight loss and i already get frequent migraines, so it was a way to kill two birds with one stone, but now i got to take metformin too to treat the insulin resistance first...which also has a side effect of weight loss. so i guess i know why i struggled to lose weight all these years despite attempting various diets. (i've always been chonky even as a lil kid.) Might see some results now.

though i can't say ive ever committed the crime of eating cheese and crackers with chocolate before. <_<

[Yabby]

I like it.

Chocolate... good
Cheese.......good
crackers .... GOOD

[6souls]

[Tarage]

https://www.dispatch.com/news/202002...quos-sex-abuse

"Jim Jordan called me crying, crying, groveling on the 4th of July, begging me to go against my brother. Begging me. Crying for a half an hour. That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on here," he said.

What a little bitch.

[Guyverarmor]

https://www.dispatch.com/news/202002...quos-sex-abuse



What a little bitch.

Well he's a Trump republican so...

[Tyrath]

Acting like any other kind of Republican are left.

Besides Romney I guess.

[6souls]

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/13/80559...s-against-iran

The Senate voted 55-45 to limit Trump's war powers against Iran.

The vote was 55-45 — with eight Republicans joining all Democrats to pass the measure. The tally fell far short of the two-thirds needed to override a presidential veto.

Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine led the charge on the resolution, which would ban the president from ordering any new offensive strikes against Iran. It would still allow the president to order strikes in cases of self-defense against an imminent attack.

"The resolution just says no war with Iran, unless you come and make that case to Congress. And if you make the case to Congress, in front of the American people, and we all have the discussion, ask the tough questions and conclude, sadly, it's in the national interest, that's one thing," Kaine told NPR. "But if we're not even willing to have that discussion, we shouldn't be forcing people to risk their lives."

Mike Lee said the measure focuses on an imbalance of power that has given way to the presidency and it's time for Congress to reclaim its authority.

"We need congressional authorization. We've been lied to by the Pentagon for years regarding a war that has gone on two decades. That's long enough. ... We don't want any more wars without the people's elected representatives being able to debate," Lee said.

[Tyrath]

He's just gonna veto it so whatever

[Tarage]

He's just gonna veto it so whatever

Don't forget whine on twitter. He already has.

[Tarage]

EDIT: I am in the wrong thread, sorry.

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51663053
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll071.xml
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...-federal-crime

The House has passed an anti-lynching bill that they've been trying to pass since 1900. The Senate passed theirs in 2018. The bill passed 410-4.

H.R. 35, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, passed the House overwhelmingly on a 410-4 vote, with Reps. Justin Amash (I-Mich.), Louis Gohmert (R-Texas), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) voting "no." Sixteen representatives, from both sides of the aisle, did not vote on the bill.

[Dimmauk]

4 GOP guys voted against it. Imagine being a black person and this not bothering you.