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Republicans In The Senate Really Only Care About One Thing
And that’s judges…
Let’s face it: unless lawmakers from both sides suddenly get fired up about an infrastructure or immigration bill or some such, as far as a legislative agenda goes, the Republican-controlled Senate doesn’t really have much of one. Because there’s not much substantial they can pass that will then pass in the Democrat-controlled House.
So there’s really very little they can do, other than bargain over a budget, which has to be passed every year for government to function. Other than that, they’re just kind of waiting it out, hoping Trump gets re-elected, and they can hold on to the Senate and regain the House. Then, and only then, would they be able to fire up plans to expand on their tax cuts to the wealthy (passed before Democrats had control of Congress), and of course, kill Obamacare.
So a lot of what they’ve been doing in the meantime is just nonsense, to keep themselves busy by bringing stuff to the floor they think will make Democrats look bad when they vote against or for it (depending on what it is), or voting down or refusing to vote on things Democrats have already approved over in the House.
But the one area Republicans in the Senate still have a massive amount of power is in getting Conservative judges approved and onto various…
