MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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‘A betrayal’: Inside a bitter rift between Pelosi and Schumer over border bill
By artappraiser on Sat, 06/29/2019 - 12:38am |The sudden dispute between the two most powerful Democrats is remarkable given their long history of cooperation and could have serious ramifications.
By Mike DeBonis & Rachel Bade @ WashingtonPost.com, June 28
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues in a private meeting Thursday that she thought she had a deal this week with her longtime ally, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer: She would ensure passage of a more liberal border funding bill in the House, and he would back her up by persuading Democratic senators to fight for it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) said, she was blindsided. Nearly all Senate Democrats voted for a Republican-backed bill that kneecapped the House and marked the most embarrassing defeat for Pelosi in the six months since Democrats took over the chamber.
“Schumer destroyed all our leverage on Wednesday by not being able to hold his people,” said a senior House Democratic aide [....]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/a-betrayal-inside-the-bitter-rift-between-pelosi-and-schumer-over-border-bill/2019/06/28/26fbb3b8-99bf-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?utm_term=.b309e3058845
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Comments
They're professionals - pick yourselves up, dust yourselves off, get ready for the next fight.
As the article makes clear, holding an opposition across 2 houses with 2 sets of rules & only 1 majority is difficult.
But overall have been doing quite well. i think the American people will remember the photos & headlines from the border much more than this vote.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/29/2019 - 7:15am
Since no paper, including the NYT and WaPo publish the actual Bills side by side or alone, and all TeeVee has is 'both sides' blaming, controversy inciting remarks and blather from wealthy perennially wrong lifetime job guaranteed opinion havers.....knowing what is actually in a Bill can be laborious to find out, not to mention read if you ever find it.
The linked article makes the Senate Bill actually pretty good, no new beds so asylum seekers can't be locked up forever, no wall, millions for non-profits etc...:
by NCD on Sat, 06/29/2019 - 11:18am