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Title: Rand Paul, king of Senate drama, is at it again
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Politico
URL Source: https://www.politico.com/story/2018 ... and-paul-senate-omnibus-480553
Published: Mar 22, 2018
Author: BURGESS EVERETT
Post Date: 2018-03-22 17:58:53 by Gatlin
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Views: 2400
Comments: 34
The Kentucky senator has yet to decide whether to really get on fellow senators’ nerves by delaying a massive spending bill. Rand Paul is keeping everyone in suspense yet again. The junior senator from Kentucky is refusing to rule out forcing another brief government shutdown over his protests of the $1.3 trillion spending bill, which he has called “budget-busting” and a return to “Obama spending and trillion-dollar deficits.” Fellow senators are trying desperately to persuade him to let the Senate vote on the spending bill Thursday and avoid unnecessarily keeping them in town on Friday and into the weekend. Paul was noncommittal on Thursday as he walked into a Republican caucus lunch. He said he had more than 2,000 pages of the 2,200-page bill left to get through before he would decide how to proceed. “I’m on page 56 right now, and so I’ve got a few more pages to read. I don’t have any other comment,” Paul said. A few hours later he tweeted that he was on page 207 of the “monstrous” bill and began singling out pieces of the bill for criticism. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) continued to try to set up a vote before the shutdown deadline, but made a procedural move that would allow the Senate to begin advancing the bill on Saturday at 1 a.m. That would mean another brief lapse in government funding, making it the third shutdown of the year. Republicans had hoped that they could produce the spending deal much earlier this week to evade Paul's procedural protests and give the Senate time to pass the bill without the possibility of a shutdown. But top congressional leaders released the bill at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, infuriating Paul and other conservatives who say it is not nearly enough time to review the legislation. "We don’t want leverage. We want a real process and time to debate, amend and vote," a Paul aide said. "It’s not too much to ask but [Senate leaders] refuse to do it, time after time." Under Senate rules, all 100 senators must agree to hold a vote before the Friday night shutdown deadline. But as of now, they don’t have it. The House cleared the massive spending measure on Thursday. R “It’s just a question of if he delays the vote. It doesn’t change anything,” Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 3 Senate Republican, said of Paul. “I don’t think anybody knows and I don’t think his staff knows [what he's going to do] … it’s his right and his prerogative if he wants to do it.”
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
Good for him he is doing his job and reading the bill. Hands down best Senator in decade's.
So, in the end, all of Rand Paul’s vaudevillian theatrics again accomplished absolutely nothing to stop the bill from passing or to change the bill in any way because early this morning, the Senate passed a $1.3 trillion spending package that will increase funding for the military and domestic spending and will keep the government funded through the end of September, sending the legislation to the President for his signature house ahead of a midnight deadline. I could perhaps agree with you if he ever got anything done....anything at all. All he has is a loud mouth that he so freely uses. Shooting off his loud mouth gets absolutely nothing done. Oh, it gets him lots of face time on the TV cameras and that appears to be his political goal. Name for me a single piece of major legislation that your “best Senator in decades” ever got passed during his entire time in the Senate....JUST ONE. You can’t name one because there has not been ONE. At least his feckless daddy got ONE piece of legislation passed when he sold a federally owned house in Galveston. Yep, Rand Paul, king of Senate drama was at it again. And again, it was all bluster to no avail since he accomplished absolutely nothing. Ho hum ...
#6. To: Gatlin (#4)
Liar. Rand Paul Reads the Omnibus Spending Bill (Because Someone Has To) Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who might be thinking of holding up the Senate's vote on the insane and mysterious omnibus spending bill, is publicly conducting some basic due diligence for a legislator: demonstrating that, unlike pretty much all his colleagues in House or Senate, he's actually trying to read the monstrous thing before voting. (Paul notes it took over two hours for his office printer to even print the thing.) He's giving the American people some insights, good and bad, in real time via his twitter feed. Some highlights: Page 226 of terrible, no good, rotten deficit spending bill. I found a kernel of hope: "no funds in this act will be used to support or justify torture." — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018 Good news on the state-level marijuana rights front: Page 240 good news for states rights: no funds will be spent to prevent any state's medical marijuana initiatives. Thank you Congr. Rohrbacher — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018 Some things Paul wonders if require this level of public (i.e. you and me) funding: Here are a few more highlights: o $1m for the Cultural Antiquities Task Force And more of that: o $1m for the World Meteorological Organization
Oh - the irony!
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#4. To: A K A Stone (#1)
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Good for him he is doing his job and reading the bill.
Maybe, if he had actually been “reading” the bill. But he was not. It was reported that he only scanned the measure. And just WTF good would his reading the bill do? Not a damned thing. He has a staff who highlights the important parts for him. Hands down best Senator in decade's.
Replies to Comment # 4. But he was not. It was reported that he only scanned the measure.
o $6.25m for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation
o $20m for Countering Foreign State Propaganda
o $12m for Countering State Disinformation and Pressure — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
o $218m for Promoting Democracy Development in Europe (yep..the birthplace of democracy needs promoting)
o $25m for International Religious Freedom
o $10m for disadvantaged Egyptian Students — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018
#7. To: Gatlin (#4)
Shooting off his loud mouth
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