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Last week HOUSE GOP Voted to pay fed. employees first paycheck in 2019. Only 6 DEMS voted Yea. It failed.

 

Editor Victoria’s Comment ~ Didn’t hear about this one did we?  And looksie who voted Nay ~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Some are speculating McConnell would not take up such a bill and  POTUS would have vetoed it as he has said no budget of any kind until the wall is funded…and such a bill below would (allegedly) open up the government.  If that is the case though the DEMS would be all over this one with YEA votes.  And it appears to me the bill was introduced by a Democrat (NYC).  No solid answer on this one at the moment…

BILL SUMMARY:

Summary: H.J.Res.28 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)All Information (Except Text)

There is one summary for H.J.Res.28. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.

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Introduced in House (01/14/2019)

Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019

This joint resolution provides continuing FY2019 appropriations to several federal agencies through the earlier of February 28, 2019, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations legislation.

It is known as a continuing resolution (CR) and ends the partial government shutdown that began after the existing CR expired on December 21, 2018, because seven of the remaining FY2019 appropriations bills have not been enacted.

(Five of the FY2019 appropriations bills were enacted last year, including

  • the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2019;
  • the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019;
  • the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019;
  • the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2019; and
  • the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019.)

Additionally, the CR has the effect of extending through February 28, 2019, several authorities and programs that were extended in prior CRs, including

  • the Violence Against Women Act,
  • the authority for the Environmental Protection Agency to collect and spend certain fees related to pesticides,
  • the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and
  • several authorities related to immigration.

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 43
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H J RES 28      YEA-AND-NAY      17-Jan-2019      12:49 PM
QUESTION:  On Motion to Recommit with Instructions
BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2019, and for other purposes

 

YEAS NAYS PRES NV
DEMOCRATIC 6 222 6
REPUBLICAN 189 10
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS 195 222   16

—- YEAS    195 —
 

Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amash
Amodei
Armstrong
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Banks
Barr
Bergman
Biggs
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Bost
Brady
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Budd
Burchett
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Cheney
Cline
Cloud
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comer
Conaway
Cook
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cunningham
Curtis
Davidson (OH)
Davis, Rodney
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan
Dunn
Emmer
Estes
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx (NC)
Fulcher
Gallagher
Gianforte
Gibbs
Gohmert		 Gonzalez (OH)
Gooden
Gosar
Gottheimer
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Green (TN)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hagedorn
Harris
Hartzler
Hern, Kevin
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Holding
Hollingsworth
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Katko
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger
Kustoff (TN)
LaHood
LaMalfa
Lamb
Lamborn
Latta
Lesko
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marshall
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
Meadows
Meuser
Miller
Mitchell
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Moulton
Mullin
Newhouse
Norman		 Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Palmer
Pence
Perry
Posey
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reschenthaler
Rice (SC)
Riggleman
Roby
Rodgers (WA)
Roe, David P.
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose (NY)
Rose, John W.
Rouzer
Roy
Rutherford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Shimkus
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spano
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Stewart
Stivers
Taylor
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Timmons
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Van Drew
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Waltz
Watkins
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westerman
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Wright
Yoho
Young
Zeldin

—- NAYS    222 —
 

Adams
Aguilar
Allred
Axne
Barragán
Bass
Beatty
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Blunt Rochester
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brindisi
Brown (MD)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Carbajal
Cárdenas
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Case
Casten (IL)
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Cooper
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Cox (CA)
Craig
Crist
Crow
Cuellar
Cummings
Davids (KS)
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny K.
Dean
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Delgado
Demings
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Engel
Escobar
Eshoo
Espaillat
Evans
Finkenauer
Fletcher
Foster
Frankel
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi		 García (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Golden
Gomez
Gonzalez (TX)
Green (TX)
Grijalva
Haaland
Harder (CA)
Hastings
Hayes
Heck
Higgins (NY)
Hill (CA)
Himes
Horn, Kendra S.
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Huffman
Jackson Lee
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Khanna
Kildee
Kilmer
Kim
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Krishnamoorthi
Kuster (NH)
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lawson (FL)
Lee (CA)
Lee (NV)
Levin (CA)
Levin (MI)
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luján
Luria
Lynch
Malinowski
Maloney, Carolyn B.
Maloney, Sean
Matsui
McAdams
McBath
McCollum
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Moore
Morelle
Mucarsel-Powell
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neguse		 Norcross
O’Halleran
Ocasio-Cortez
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pascrell
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Phillips
Pingree
Pocan
Porter
Pressley
Price (NC)
Quigley
Raskin
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Rouda
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Ryan
Sánchez
Sarbanes
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shalala
Sherman
Sherrill
Sires
Slotkin
Smith (WA)
Soto
Spanberger
Speier
Stanton
Stevens
Suozzi
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres Small (NM)
Trahan
Trone
Underwood
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velázquez
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wexton
Wild
Yarmuth

—- NOT VOTING    16 —
 

Doyle, Michael F.
Gaetz
Johnson (LA)
Jones
Loudermilk
Marino		 Massie
Mast
McEachin
Meng
Payne
Rooney (FL)		 Rush
Sensenbrenner
Walker
Wilson (FL)

 

Here’s a Roll Call Summary (detailing the bill further):

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Roll Call Summary

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Washington, January 17, 2019
Date: January 17, 2019
Convened: 9:00 a.m.
Recessed: 9:57 a.m.
Reconvened: 10:04 a.m.
Recessed: 1:17 p.m.
Reconvened: 1:52 p.m.
Recessed:  3:37 p.m.
Reconvened:  4:35 p.m.
Recessed: 4:35 p.m.
Reconvened: 4:42 p.m.
Adjourned: 4:43 p.m.
RC # RV # Time Subject YEA NAY PRES
040 1 10:06 a.m. Republican Motion to Recommit on H. J. Res. 28 – This Motion to Recommit would amend the Democrat’s CR and extend funding from December 22, 2018 through January 15, 2019. Combined with the S. 24, which was signed by the president yesterday, this would allow all federal employees to receive their first paycheck of the year 230 190 –
041 2 10:33 a.m. H.R. 150 Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency Act of 2019 – Suspension  422 0 –
042 3 12:14 p.m. H.J.Res. 30 Disapproving the President’s proposal to take an action relating to the application of certain sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation – Suspension   362 53 –
043 4 12:42 p.m. Republican Motion to Recommit on H. J. Res. 28 – This Motion to Recommit would amend the Democrat’s CR and extend funding from December 22, 2018 through January 15, 2019 195 222 –
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President Trump making ‘major announcement’ about shutdown, border security Saturday afternoon

WASHINGTON D.C. — President Trump will be making a ‘major announcement’ on Saturday afternoon about the government shutdown and border security.

He said on Twitter Friday that the announcement will be made at 3 p.m. from the White House.

The government has been shut down for nearly a month, making this the longest government shutdown in history.

The president is insisting on $5 billion for the border wall, but legislation for that does not have support from Congress.

CONTINUE READING HERE.

Representative Cortez ~ “Where’s Mitch Mcconnell??!!” (humor – another “too good not to share”)

 

editor victoria’s comment ~ you can’t make this stuff up.  an elected official not knowing where McConnell’s office is?   

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‘State of the Union Is Off’: Democrat Steny Hoyer Rescinds Trump Invitation

 

editor victoria’s comment ~ i read earlier where Pelosi allegedly did the same…POTUS can, as i mentioned yesterday, simply submit a letter…

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday afternoon that Democrats had effectively canceled President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

“The state of the union is off,” Hoyer said in an interview with CNN, adding that Trump could not convince them to schedule it until Trump reopened the government.

Hoyer commented after Pelosi sent the president a letter, urging him to postpone the speech or simply deliver a letter to Congress. The White House has not responded to Pelosi’s request or Hoyer’s comments, but White House sources confirmed to Breitbart News that they are working on a response.

CONTINUE READING HERE.

 

Trump’s shutdown trap?

 

editor victoria’s comment ~ this piece ties in w/the Patriot Hour’s video i linked earlier…brilliant!

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January 15, 2019

Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy?  In only five more days of the already “longest government shutdown in history” (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more.

Don’t believe me that federal bureaucrats can be laid off?  Well, in bureaucratese, a layoff is called a RIF – a Reduction in Force – and of course, it comes with a slew of civil service protections.  But, if the guidelines are followed, bureaucrats can be laid off – as in no more job.  It is all explained by Michael Roberts here (updated after the beginning of the partial shutdown):

A reduction in force is a thoughtful and systematic elimination of positions.  For all practical purposes, a government RIF is the same thing as a layoff. …

Organizations must stick to predetermined criteria when sorting out what happens to each employee.  They must communicate with employees how and why decisions are made. …

In deciding who stays and who goes, federal agencies must take four factors into account:

 

1.    Tenure

2.    Veteran status

3.    Total federal civilian and military service

4.    Performance

Agencies cannot use RIF procedures to fire bad employees.

CONTINUE READING HERE.

Washington Post Opinion ~ Trump won the night. Schumer and Pelosi lost.

 

By Marc A. Thiessen
Columnist

January 8 at 11:20 PM

President Trump did something Tuesday night that he has rarely done since taking office: He used the presidential bully pulpit to reach beyond his hardcore base of supporters to make his case to the American people as a whole.

Speaking from the Oval Office for the first time during his presidency, Trump embraced our country’s tradition as a nation of immigrants, declaring “America proudly welcomes millions of lawful immigrants who enrich our society and contribute to our nation.” He then offered a cogent explanation why he believes we face what he called “a humanitarian crisis — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul” along our southern border.

He pointed out the human cost of our broken system to illegal migrants themselves, expressing compassion for the “children [who] are used as human pawns by vicious coyotes and ruthless gangs” and the “women [who] are sexually assaulted on the dangerous trek up through Mexico.” He shared heartbreaking stories of Americans killed by criminal aliens who had no right to be here — including a police officer in California who was murdered, a 16-year-old girl who was brutally stabbed in Maryland, and an Air Force veteran who was raped and beaten to death.

CONTINUE READING HERE.

DEVELOPING: President Trump WALKS AWAY, Calls Budget Meeting ‘Total Waste of Time’

 

as i said – this has to be part of the plan.  the acting between pelosi, schumer and trump.  this is unprecedented behavior…

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posted by Hannity Staff – 2 hours ago

President Trump abruptly left a high-stakes budget meeting with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi in Washington Wednesday; calling the negotiations a “total waste of time” after the Speaker said she has no plans on funding his proposed border wall.

“Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!” the president confirmed on social media.

Continue here.

Senate confirms dozens of stalled Trump nominees hours before the 115th Congress ends

 

no federal judges but it’s a good start….

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by Susan Ferrechio
| January 02, 2019 08:20 PM

The Senate confirmed dozens of stalled Trump administration nominees Wednesday night, just hours before the close of the 115th Congress.

The list excluded federal judges despite an effort by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to secure a deal for those nominees with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

In total, the Senate cleared 77 nominees by voice vote, among them 23 ambassadors to countries including Australia, Armenia, Yemen, Guyana, Kenya, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Senate confirmed eight U.S. attorneys and eight U.S. marshals, a member of the Federal Maritime Commission, and two members of the Federal Communications Commission.

The Senate confirmed James Carroll Jr. to be director of National Drug Control Policy. It also confirmed Ellen McCarthy to serve as assistant secretary of state.

And it confirmed Kelvin Droegemeier to serve as the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

CONTINUE READING HERE.

US House approves funding bill with $5.7bn for Trump’s border wall

 

editor victoria’s comment ~ this has to be part of the plan as the intel i follow says the money for the wall was included in the military budget – which passed…posting a piece next that speaks of that…

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The US House of Representatives has approved $5.7bn in funding for a border wall after President Trump rejected a budget without it. The Senate is unlikely to pass the new bill, raising fears of a partial government shutdown.

Trump had stated earlier on Thursday that he would refuse to sign any version of the bill without funding for a wall, sending a compromise bill that would have kept the government open through February back to the drawing board.

The House voted 217-185 to pass the new version of the bill, mostly split between Republicans and Democrats, who have rejected funding the wall. Without a successful agreement, funding for many government departments will expire at midnight on Friday.

This is the last chance for the Republican-led House to flex its muscles, as January will see a new Democratic majority seated, and the Republicans’ Freedom Caucus has promised to back Trump in his push for the wall.

While Republicans have a majority in the Senate – 51 to the Democrats’ 49 – a bill needs 60 votes to pass, unlike in the House, where a simple majority is enough.

CONTINUE READING HERE.