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Anonymous ID: 26fad5 Dec. 31, 2020, 11:19 a.m. No.12254478   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4489 >>4506 >>4529

Graham calls for stand-alone vote on $2,000 checks

 

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1344724035284963330

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) broke with his party's Senate leader Thursday, calling for a stand-alone vote on $2,000 stimulus checks.

 

"If you had a stand-alone vote on the $2,000 check, it might pass," Graham said while appearing on "Fox & Friends."

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has knocked the prospect of raising the stimulus checks that are going out to many Americans from $600 to $2,000, vowing the Senate would not pass a stand-alone bill increasing the amount. President Trump has pushed for the increase and the House passed one earlier this week, but most Senate Republicans are wary.

"The Senate is not going to be bullied into rushing out more borrowed money into the hands of Democrats' rich friends who don't need the help," McConnell said.

 

McConnell has offered a competing measure that would tie an increase in the checks to removing a legal shield for tech companies and creating a commission to examine the 2020 elections. But that proposal is viewed as a non-starter for Democrats.

 

Graham says McConnell is correct in saying that a stand-alone vote couldn't happen by Jan. 3. However, the new Congress begins that day at noon, and the vote stands a chance there.

 

That would mean, however, that the House would also need to pass its own bill again, as the existing approved measure would die when the current Congress ends.

 

"The new Congress, you could get a vote," Graham said. "I'd like a stand-alone vote in the new Congress on the $2,000 check."

Seven Republicans already said they would vote in favor of the increased checks, and five more would need to sign on to get it passed, Graham told "Fox & Friends."

"I think if we had the vote we would get there."

Republicans have expressed concern over the $2,000 stimulus checks, arguing they would add to the federal debt and they aren't the most efficient way to get relief money to those who really need it.

 

"I'm with the president on this," Graham said, noting President Trump's push for the increased checks last week. "Our economy is hanging by a thread here in South Carolina."

 

To help win GOP favor, Graham called for a stand-alone vote on three measures: Repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a commission to investigate fraud in the 2020 elections and a vote on $2,000 stimulus checks.

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/532215-graham-calls-for-stand-alone-vote-on-2k-checks

Anonymous ID: 26fad5 Dec. 31, 2020, 11:34 a.m. No.12254644   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4699 >>4716 >>4796

>>12254468

same here anon.

I am the ONLY Trump supporter at my job….all the rest of them do is bitch all day and whine about "Orange man". It's fucking ridiculous.

They think shit like this pic is normal…

 

Feels very lonely…..thank God for my family.

Anonymous ID: 26fad5 Dec. 31, 2020, 11:45 a.m. No.12254753   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4763 >>4779 >>4843 >>4914 >>5043

Amy Schumer, Rosie O'Donnell to make last-minute appeals for Dems in Georgia races

 

Comedians Rosie O’Donnell and Amy Schumer are making eleventh-hour pushes for the Democratic candidates in next month’s crucial Senate runoff election in Georgia — as Tinseltown celebrities continue to try to turn the Peach State blue down-ballot.

 

Schumer, the star of “Trainwreck” and “I Feel Pretty,” will take part in a phone bank Saturday.

“Join me this weekend as I help phone bank with #Generatorcollective & #knockfordemocracy for the Jan 5th run-off election to help get @reverendwarnock & @ossoff elected to flip the Senate,” she said in a Twitter post Wednesday.

 

She linked to a signup list for the group Knock for Democracy.

 

Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock are challenging incumbent GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffer.

 

The election will determine which party controls the Senate next year.

O’Donnell, who has been involved in a running feud with President Trump for years, urged her fans to donate to a turn-out-the-vote effort by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

“Alright people, we all know how important the Georgia runoffs are. #StaceysDramaClub is fundraising to help get out the vote on the ground. Chip in what you can and let’s take back the Senate from Mitch’s cold, purple hands,” she wrote on Twitter, referring to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

 

A number of Hollywood liberals have hopped on the bandwagon to flip Georgia, including Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joaquin Phoenix and Will Smith.

 

twitter.com/nypost/status/1344708325741645826

https://nypost.com/2020/12/31/amy-schumer-rosie-odonnell-to-campaign-for-georgia-dems