Disfunctional Washington

[Towntalk]

UPDATE

Senate Blocks House Spending Bill to Set Up Showdown

The Senate voted Friday morning to reject the House's stopgap spending bill, less than twelve hours after the House's Republican leaders had forced it through on their second try.

The Senate vote was 59 to 36 to table the House bill, effectively killing it. Some conservative Republicans joined in rejecting the measure.

[sfc_oliver]

The members of this board could get more and probably better things done.

And I mean inclusively, all the members of this board........

[Towntalk]

Watched it on C-SPAN and it was like watching a WWF sideshow. Yelling at each other, name calling like children in a school yard fight.

Example: A bill has to have a three day layover before it comes to the floor, and as any school boy knows, three days equals 72 hours, yet the two lead debaters spent time arguing over semantics ... ie 72 hours vs. three days.

[sfc_oliver]

We need to fire everyone in Washington and replace them with rookies.

I believe we'd be better off...........

[Towntalk]

This morning at 12:30 AM the House passed another CR to keep government running another month after a contentious name calling and screaming debate, and now the bill will go to the Senate where it's certain not to pass, so now we'll have another round of people sweating it out, except that there's more at stake than a government shutdown. FEMA will run out of money Monday to pay for all the disasters that hit us these past few months ... floods; droughts and wild fires in Texas; hurricanes and earthquakes.

As with everything else that Congress [ House and Senate ] has been doing so far, we can expect the national media to frighten seniors; vets; and those families that live in disaster areas.

House passes temporary spending plan with more cuts

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/politics/congress-fema-funding/index.html