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Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOPBy Lori Montgomery and Ed O'Keefe at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/senate-democrats-plan-a-legislative-rush-before-power-shifts-to-the-gop/2014/11/06/48559692-65ed-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html
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Before ceding full control of Congress to the GOP in January, Senate Democrats are planning to rush a host of critical measures to President Obamas desk, including bills to revive dozens of expired tax breaks and avoid a government shutdown for another year.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) is also aiming to chip away at a backlog of presidential nominations to the federal bench and the State Department over the next month, although Democratic aides say they will be unable to process all of the hundreds of pending appointments before turning the chamber over to Republicans.
Republican leaders, too, are inclined to clear the legislative decks of must-pass bills so they can start fresh in January, when they will have control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in eight years. Leaders from both parties are due at the White House for a lunch Friday to begin discussing the parameters of the possible in a new era of Republican domination.
At his first news conference since the GOP landslide at the polls this week, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday warned Obama to abandon his go-it-alone strategy of governing by executive order and to begin looking for areas of compromise with Congress.
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Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP (Original Post)
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Nov 2014
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Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)1. I love the onion
After six years in the majority they are going to suddenly as lame ducks get everything done.
Lochloosa
(16,018 posts)2. You win.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)4. ....
librechik
(30,663 posts)5. ha ha ha how cute!
imagine my surprise to find the onion after i was already laughing per the ntionof those lily livered panty poppers doing anything that might make the new masters annoyed.