Scalise Reveals First Legislation for
Republican House, Vows ‘Bold Agenda’
Epoch Times,
by
Tom Ozimek
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/1/2023 2:32:59 PM
Incoming House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) revealed a list of legislation that he will bring up for Republicans to consider on the House floor when they assume control of the lower chamber in mere days and loosen the Democrats’ grip on power in Washington.
.(snip)A review of the bills and resolutions Scalise has scheduled for the first two weeks of the new Congress—like defunding the IRS or restricting releases from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve—suggests Republicans want to send a message to the Biden administration that the winds of change are about to blow harder.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 1/1/2023 2:49:05 PM (No. 1368743)
Blah, Blah, Blah r's. Bring up and pass are two different things. Remember Repeal and Replace? Those r's?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
billsv 1/1/2023 2:58:43 PM (No. 1368746)
They must defund the Dpecial counsel and all attacks on president Trump. Request and release tax records on Joe z Biden, his son and brother as well as all democrats who voted to release Trump’s tax records
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
billsv 1/1/2023 3:06:38 PM (No. 1368749)
Also repeal the $1.7 trillion spending bill esecially the vlause that prevent money going to the Brazilian military if they interfere with the election.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 1/1/2023 3:29:40 PM (No. 1368759)
How many times have we heard bull crap like this? What’s different this time? Nothing. Elections are rigged and corrupt nationwide. Judges are bought and owned and as corrupt as anything. Politicians on both sides are sell outs and greedy selfish and even more corrupt that the judges and elections. The greatest of all corruption resides in the White House for all to see. Mitch and Kevin will make absolutely sure the democrats and Joe get everything they want and more. I’m going back to bed…
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
reefdiver 1/1/2023 3:54:46 PM (No. 1368763)
This "Bold Agenda" had better work to restore as much of the country as possible while we still have remnants of America remaining.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
thomthomp 1/1/2023 4:27:12 PM (No. 1368772)
What does it matter what the new House does? If Schumer doesn't stop it in the Senate. McConnell WILL. And anything useful that does get through, Joe Biden will be told to veto.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/1/2023 4:39:06 PM (No. 1368780)
You Republicans in DC, you promise you will do this and do that. Yet the only one that got you to do anything, you despise, 45 is the guy. BTW how are you going to do everything you say you are going to do? You don't have the Senate nor the White House. Right now you are impotent. Please clarify RINOs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/1/2023 4:54:38 PM (No. 1368787)
Rep. Scalise, welcome to your new role. Congratulations, sir. We are glad that you continue to walk this earth after what happened to you. But a quick question - what can you do for America to free the J6 political prisoners, sir? While Ray Epps and the fbi, among others, continue to walk as a free men/women/{insert pronoun} and while Lizzard and the J6 committee circus quietly disappear?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SALady 1/1/2023 5:27:49 PM (No. 1368790)
Nice talk, but just showmanship.
Seriously, the House can pass all the bills it wants, but they will die in the Demon-Rat controlled Senate, or at the veto pen of Senile Joe bidet.
Realistically, all the House can do is put a damper on the runaway Communist agenda of the Demon-Rats in the Senate and Senile Joe bidet. But since bidet ignores Congress most of the time and just spends billions of dollars and makes laws with his dictatorial presidential decree, the Republicans can slow down the runaway Communist Demon-Rat train, but they can't totally stop it or realistically reverse the damage that was done in the last 2 years.
Elections have consequences, and when the useless Republi-Can't so-called "leadership" let the Demon-Rats steal the 2020 election for Senile Joe bidet because they hated President Trump more than they feared the pure evil the Demon-Rats would do with unlimited control of the Senate and the presidency, we are living in the disaster of those consequences now!!!
This is going to be a great year for alcohol and gun sales in this country!!! That is about the best we can hope for!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/1/2023 5:32:18 PM (No. 1368792)
Sadly, this is laughable. Your letter, sir, is pure bunkum for the boobs.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Luke21 1/1/2023 5:53:36 PM (No. 1368800)
None of it will pass and Biden won't sign it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
2assume 1/1/2023 6:13:02 PM (No. 1368812)
Any bill that is passed must be read aloud so people are aware of what is being passed. No more continuing resolutions. The bills must be prioritized. We fund s.s. Keeping laws that protect us and our nation and borders, infrastructure. Stop creating new social programs and paying off donors. We fund our own country before we even think about giving our money away to other countries. Do not approve anyone else that Joe chooses to place in power. Candidates must prove the can do the job. Equity must not be considered. Defund the board of education.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
leonardo 1/1/2023 6:29:28 PM (No. 1368822)
So, exactly how many Biden Executive Orders will Republican "winds" blow down? Biden keeping the Southern Borders open to illegal immigrants is AGAINST THE LAW ... will the "winds of change" blow back the invaders?
If so, SHOW AMERICA THAT.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/1/2023 6:37:03 PM (No. 1368829)
Sorry, but this is almost entirely smoke and mirrors. NOTHING will get past Traitor Joe's veto pen, so all is just PR baloney.
The best we can get is Congress doing NOTHING for the next two years. That WILL BE a huge improvement over Nutty, Nasty Nan's criminal, corrupt, destructive tenure, for certain. But no laws will be reversed with this Congress. Joe, aided no doubt, by China Mitch will stop any bills which would make improvements.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/1/2023 6:37:06 PM (No. 1368830)
With no control of the Senate or the White House, passing bills is no more effective than passing gas.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/1/2023 7:17:04 PM (No. 1368848)
I'd like to see them shut down government while everything is overhauled (defund what needs to be defunded). Reopen government only after it has be reduced to what's absolutely necessary.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 1/1/2023 7:38:48 PM (No. 1368869)
The GOP will get nothing through the Senate so it's best to hold the Biden Regime hostage and give them zero dollars for the next 2 years unless they give up something big each time. Also, expect McConnell and the Rino's in the Senate to stab their party and the country in he back every chance they get.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 1/1/2023 9:12:48 PM (No. 1368902)
Ho hum, the Republican "bold agenda" will sag like a wet noodle. Everybody knows that. Lobbyists will show up with bags of money and the voters in South Succotash then become an afterthought...until the next election.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
govlawyer 1/2/2023 6:45:10 AM (No. 1369018)
More Kabuki from the GOPe--when you don't control the Senate and the WH, you can have the most energetic agenda the world has seen...but it won't survive dying or getting amended to death in the Senate thanks to The Turtle or a veto by Pudding Brain.
Just another Three Card Monty with a different set of playing cards.
Scalise is part of the problem.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Yuban 1/2/2023 8:31:21 AM (No. 1369077)
The GOP is a joke. All hat and no cattle (only sheep).
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/2/2023 10:08:23 AM (No. 1369144)
We keep hearing that but I'll hold out for the results before opening the champagne. They won't be "defunding the IRS" but will merely keep things exactly the way they are. The bloodsuckers will still be able to do plenty of damage without 87,000 more affirmative action hires. I want to hear that the border wall will be 100% complete by July and all of the idle gas and oil wells will be back on line and Keystone reinstated, thus fixing the inflation problem the correct way. All Treasury funds illegally set aside by Biden in his huge giveaway packages need to be put back where they belong. The executive branch can not steal money that way. Oh, and elections made tamper-proof while you are at it or it will be a short two-year reprieve that will fix nothing.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/2/2023 10:48:22 AM (No. 1369192)
I giving Wifey this list. She never forgets anything.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/2/2023 11:09:06 AM (No. 1369220)
I call this hogwash. When the power was in the republican's hands in 2016 what did they do with it? Nothing, they stabbed the Republican President in the back. The republicans are a bunch of blind squirrels, spineless, big talking do nothing cowards.
Prove it to us but thanks anyway Scalise for the entertainment.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/2/2023 11:14:17 AM (No. 1369226)
Well...WE'll see what happens...the Washington swamp is so entrenched that any positive movement seems almost impossible...being against something is not the same as changing it and voting it down...chuckie still has more power than he should need to sit on all reform and stop any advances for Americans...and I'm sure nervous nancy has his ear and together they will continue on their marxism trail....anti/American to their end...God willing soon....
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
felixcat 1/2/2023 11:46:33 AM (No. 1369260)
Maybe I missed it but did Rep Scalise ever say anything about the man who shot him - almost killed him? You know, something along the lines of a Nancy Pelosi blaming one incident on all Republicans? Stoicism is great but our side is getting beat up legislatively by the Dems and too many Rs and I want reps in Congress with an R after their names to start calling people out. Enough with taking the high road.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/2/2023 3:55:08 PM (No. 1369421)
Anybody that talks about what they are going to do
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/2/2023 3:59:20 PM (No. 1369422)
Anybody that talks about what they are going to "pass" is just blowing smoke. Not qualified for the Speaker position. Move on to someone else. The one that talks about what the House can really do such as withhold funding, demand J6 prisoner are released, investigate and bring charges against wrongdoers, then that is the guy (or gal) for the job. The House has no power to pass anything that will become law without the Senate and WH.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
billp 1/2/2023 5:14:10 PM (No. 1369462)
ANY legislation passed in the House by conservatives is going nowhere and these guys know that. They get all brave and conservative ONLY when they know the Donks in the Senate and Executive branch won't pass it. We are being played.
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I am heartened to know that Scalise has a powerful role in the new House.