Osodecentx said:
Redbrickbear said:
When McCarthy was Speaker you guys hollered about "regular order" primarily for the individual budget bills. You wanted Freedom Caucus members on the Rules Committee.
McCarthy gave you what you wanted and the Freedom Caucus members on the Rules Committee blocked the individual budget bills. An omnibus bill is passed to keep government open and you vacate the chair - McCarthy is out.
Now you want regular order for budget. Freedom Caucus again blocks bills…
If the people's representatives are blocking bills maybe there is something wrong with them.
I know you dislike Democracy but if you can't write a bill out of committee then the problem lies with the bills.
Omnibus bills written by the leadership and dropped in the middle of the night is rule by oligarchy.
And those freedom caucus conservatives you dislike offered to hold a vote on each spending bill…they only objected to combining all 6 together
[members also knocked the legislation for moving as a package rather than holding votes on each of the six appropriations bills, arguing that it is one half of an omnibus spending bill the sprawling, typically end-of-year funding measures that Republicans abhor.
And they criticized leadership's decision to consider the package under suspension of the rules, a fast-track process that requires two-thirds support for passage and eliminates the need to first pass a procedural rule
"The House Freedom Caucus opposes the $1.65 trillion omnibus spending bill, which will be decided in two halves, the first being brought to the floor this week under suspension of the rules," the group wrote in a statement. "Even in the face of $34.4 trillion in national debt, the omnibus will bust the bipartisan spending caps signed into law less than a year ago and is loaded with hundreds of pages of earmarks worth billions."
"Despite giving Democrats higher spending levels, the omnibus text released so far punts on nearly every single Republican policy priority," it added. "Worst of all, the omnibus surrenders Republicans' leverage to force radical Democrats to the table to truly secure the southern border and end the purposeful, dangerous mass release of illegal aliens into the United States."]
