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Congress to Vote on Coronavirus Rescue Package (Published 2020)

Congress and the White House are nearing an economic rescue package; stocks plunged again Thursday despite the Fed offering at least $1.5 trillion worth of short-term loans to banks.
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Talks on a sweeping aid package stumble on paid sick leave and, improbably, abortion.

But another improbable sticking point has emerged: Republicans are trying to insert abortion restrictions into the emergency bill. The Republicans want to include the Hyde amendment, which would bar the use of federal funds for abortions, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. Republicans routinely push to include the language in legislation that governs the distribution of federal money.
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Of all the things to try to hijack. This is beyond despicable.

Edit:sorry that is a weird link with how they are doing it.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Louisiana's presidential primary election to be delayed because of coronavirus

The presidential primary elections in Louisiana slated for April will be delayed by two months, the latest in a series of dramatic steps government leaders have taken to slow the
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This is just the start of it. I expect the primaries will likely be suspended.
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Hell naw. I'd start thinking pretty seriously of having people in Hazmat Suits going door to door if I were on the planning department of any state that hasn't done their primaries yet. No party can stand on the claiming they're listening to their people if we can't do elections. And Imma be angry if anyone tries to go for remote, electronic voting. That screams ballot stuffing.
 
Phaneronic said:
So would most people, but it's a little late for that if you're practically minded. If you're not, can you get me one too?
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Oh yeah I know it’s an inevitability at this stage it’s more screaming into the void. I still don’t know why young progressives both sides of the Atlantic are so hung up on failed old white men peddling 80s leftist views. There are so many inspiring young politicians with fresh ideas that are much more deserving of their support.
 
Joe Mac said:
I still don’t know why young progressives both sides of the Atlantic are so hung up on failed old white men peddling 80s leftist views.
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I promise you that's not the case here in the US. The young progressives here clearly want Bernie, who might be a septugenarian but is about as progressive as you can imagine being elected over here. And we've never had a Jewish president before, curiously, so it would be something new. The problem is, you people just don't vote. No idea what to do about it.
 
Phaneronic said:
I promise you that's not the case here in the US. The young progressives here clearly want Bernie, who might be a septugenarian but is about as progressive as you can imagine being elected over here. And we've never had a Jewish president before, curiously, so it would be something new. The problem is, you people just don't vote. No idea what to do about it.
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Typo I'm sure but I couldn't resist.
 
Phaneronic said:
I promise you that's not the case here in the US. The young progressives here clearly want Bernie, who might be a septugenarian but is about as progressive as you can imagine being elected over here. And we've never had a Jewish president before, curiously, so it would be something new. The problem is, you people just don't vote. No idea what to do about it.
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I’ll take your word for it. The parallels to Corbyn, who I absolutely despise, seems staggering, but whilst I see your debate I’m too far from your reality to be able to talk authoritatively. I know that historically you need someone a bit younger and with a willingness to compromise to sweep up both the youth vote and be more widely electable.
 
dhodo said:


Typo I'm sure but I couldn't resist.
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OOPS "Young People."

Joe Mac said:
I’ll take your word for it. The parallels to Corbyn, who I absolutely despise, seems staggering, but whilst I see your debate I’m too far from your reality to be able to talk authoritatively. I know that historically you need someone a bit younger and with a willingness to compromise to sweep up both the youth vote and be more widely electable.
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NOPE Bernie is losing because he only has the youth vote. And there's famous photos of him in civil rights marches going back to his universtiy days, so decidedly not comprable to an islamophobe.
 
Phaneronic said:
OOPS "Young People."


NOPE Bernie is losing because he only has the youth vote. And there's famous photos of him in civil rights marches going back to his universtiy days, so decidedly not comprable to an islamophobe.
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Islamapbobe? He showed shockingly poor leadership on the question of anti-semitism bit I never had Corbyn, for all his faults, down as a racist of any description.
 
Joe Mac said:
Islamapbobe? He showed shockingly poor leadership on the question of anti-semitism bit I never had Corbyn, for all his faults, down as a racist of any description.
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Wow that's a big screw up on my part then. Glad I'm not in the UK, could be had for slander! Honestly no idea what I was thinking, maybe you did mention something about anti-semitism a few months {jeeze it was only a few months?} ago...
 
Phaneronic said:
Wow that's a big screw up on my part then. Glad I'm not in the UK, could be had for slander! Honestly no idea what I was thinking, maybe you did mention something about anti-semitism a few months {jeeze it was only a few months?} ago...
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That’s ok! He’s got so many faults and hypocrisies but he’s always been staunchly anti-racist! I’d actually defend him against personal attacks in relation to anti-Semitism. What isn’t in question is that there is rampant anti-Semitism in the far left of the Labour Party, that they support him and that he did nothing to jeopardise that support when outright condemnation was the order of the day.
 
Joe Mac said:
That’s ok! He’s got so many faults and hypocrisies but he’s always been staunchly anti-racist! I’d actually defend him against personal attacks in relation to anti-Semitism. What isn’t in question is that there is rampant anti-Semitism in the far left of the Labour Party, that they support him and that he did nothing to jeopardise that support when outright condemnation was the order of the day.
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AaAaAaAhHhHh I see what you were talking about then. If anything a lot of people would argue Bernie doesn't have the supoort because he does attack the Democrat's hypocripsies, doesn't play ball as it were. Worth remembering he's an independant running on the Democratic ticket for the platform/ability to participate in debates. And I think he realizes that if he ran independent it would be his fault is a split vote results in Trump's re-election.

Quietly yearns to start an American branch of The Monster Raving Loony Party.
 
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