https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420990-house-passes-867-billion-farm-bill-sending-it-to-trump
The House on Wednesday passed an $867 billion farm bill to help those in the agricultural industry, sending the legislation to President Trump for a signature.
The measure easily passed the lower chamber by a 369-47 vote after overwhelmingly passing the Senate the previous day, capping off months of negotiations.
The bill narrowly advanced to a floor vote Wednesday after language was tucked into a procedural rule blocking for the rest of the year a vote on any war powers resolution limiting U.S. involvement in Yemen.
The move sparked backlash from a number of lawmakers, and came hours before the Senate was poised to pass a resolution using the War Powers Act to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops in or "affecting" Yemen within 30 days, unless they are fighting al Qaeda.
Supporting the war in Yemen: 𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓕𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼™
Don't know why it's just till 2019, seems like a massive waste unless they're banking on the extra two GOP senators blocking the Yemen resolution.
came hours before the Senate was poised to pass a resolution using the War Powers Act to force a withdrawal of U.S. troops in or "affecting" Yemen within 30 days, unless they are fighting al Qaeda.
Because it was just about to go to vote. And I don't know if they have the power to block going into another session. If they had the option to extend it then maybe they were just hoping the pressure dies down or they'll have enough time to plan scaling up the war machine elsewhere
as a dude who grew up on a Farm. The amount of rural Elitism farmers tend to have is fucking annoying.
As someone who still lives on one, fuck you and your riders you dicks. Unfuck the trade war before sending the check, thanks.
farmers love to talk about people on welfare but they're the group that gets the most free money from the government
The fuck
Shouldn't stuff like this be illegal
I swear US laws are fucking weird
Not sure how exactly you'd make this illegal nor how you would pass it.
It would probably require constitutional language, so a constitutional ammendment to the effect of:
"Bills must strictly pertain to the matter of their subject" or something.
Because riders are garbage, have always been garbage, and will always continue to be garbage. The happiest face that can be put on them, "the promote compromise and increase interest by parties who might otherwise vote arbitrarily or not at all," is just a thinly retreaded way of saying, "they exist solely so politicians can shovel their own bullshit in to unrelated agendas." Which, no matter how much a force for good it might be, is unimaginably contrary to the general spirit of accessible and transparent politics.
Unless someone can really justify why something (and I am just swinging for the fences here) like say, roadworks spending, a binding resolution on international relations, pork taxes, removal of LGBT protections, international weapons sales and infant healthcare support should and could all go in to a bill for farmer's subsidies.
Riders have always been fucky, can you burgers please ban them.
I wonder how many Republican lawmakers are Saudi government assets?
Nearly all of them. They’re both militant, religious extremists that use said religion as a cudgel to beat and control the masses. Only difference is one keeps fucking up trying to take over the country.
They just take Saudi bribes, they hate Islam but it's a tactical and monetary decision to help Saudi Arabia.
I love how you can have a bill which legalizes a mild sedative for use against insomnia but also as a side note it also allows public masturbation using a poodle and oh also it increases the military's heated cupholder budget by 600 trillion within the next week
In the first place shit like this shouldn't even be allowed.
Its like adding shit into the terms of service when its unrelated and because you know nobody reads them
Why are the US so keen on assisting with the ongoing genocide? And why is the West so damn quiet about it.
They sure made a lot of noise then the journalist was killed, but tens of thousands of civilians literally wiped out? Nah.
cause oil.
No, saying "oil" is just a dumb meme and grossly oversimplifies the issues in Yemen and Middle East in general.
What trully doesn't help is that Houthi rebels are pretty damn evil themselves. I mean look at their flag, it's literaly just saying: "God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam".
Yikes!
As well Hothi's had threatened and attacked ships at Red Sea, where the most important global trade route is set.
And their end goal is to implement Theocratic government based of Zaydi sect of Shia Islam. Which represents only 35% of Yemen population, which 65% is Sunni Muslim. So essentially they don't care what overall Yemen populace stands for.
So yeah, it's not merely due to oil nor Saudi's, Houthi's too are the big problem. Saudi's simply have airpower and have no shame to copy Assad's terror bombing strategy on Yemen civilians.
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