“Comparison is the thief of joy,” observed President Theodore Roosevelt. Joyless is but one emotion I experience when comparing Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose 3rd Congressional District includes the western portion of Eagle County, and Rep.…
good. but going forward, if we want to expand it, which i think is great. i d like to just know how are we going to pay for it. noel, you re looking at such a small it s $5 billion out of a 787 billion dollar defense reauthorization and you re saying how are we going to pay for this? how are we going to pay for the other 780 million dollars? and deficits sadly not resonating as an issue. not yet and one wonders why it s not resonating in the republican party. mick mulvaney, a tea party guy, interviewing hem earlier this week, he says it doesn t seem like it s getting traction. at some point it will. will it be at a moment of crisis because we suddenly find we re having to pay higher interest rates on that debt? we ll have to see, but for the moment, it s spend, spend, spend. democrats and republicans. where are are the hawks?
president. it did sort of make you wonder whether smart lawmakers figure out if you use certain catchphrases to communicate with trump, you get what you want. you play golf with the man and you lindsey graham s effort to refer prosecution of the steel document, it doesn t have teeth in it, but it s a symbol the government can be oh, great, i like lindsey graham now, even though lindsey graham and john mccain are inseparable on their policy belief, my feeling is lindsey graham is trying to get his defense reauthorization like he likes and foreign policy gains that he wants and this is his price for doing it. seth, let s turn to russia here for a moment. the president, as you know, previously said that he would be more than willing to talk to bob mueller and then all a sudden yesterday, this is what we heard from president trump. it has been determined that there is no collusion and, by virtually everybody, so we ll see what happens. would you be open to we ll see what
senate bill 1390, taken up on july 13th. considered 340 amendments and passed it ten days later. that s actually unusually long. in other years the time frame is even shorter. according to democratic congressional staffers who crunched the numbers, since 1990 there have only been four other occasions where passing a defense reauthorization has taken more than a week. norman ornstein agrees, adding that on occasion such bills have been adopted after just a day or two. so keeping them honest, lawmakers are free to support or oppose repealing don t ask don t tell as they see fit on the merits of it, but to say they don t have enough time to consider it, that doesn t wash. what s more, although the senate does adjourn on the 17th, there s no reason it has to. senators passed health care reform on christmas eve last year. most americans work basically up until christmas eve. this year a number of senators who support ending don t ask don t tell want to extend the session again. among them i
a bit. once you get on the defense bill it typically takes two weeks. i don t see how we can possibly finish the defense reauthorization bill, a two-week bill. aside from these controversial things in it, there are a whole lot of other things in it, before the end of the year. this week on meet the press, again saying there s too little time before the 17th when the senate is scheduled to adjourn for christmas. he s not the only one saying this, by the way. there s not going to be time to do it now before christmas. that was jon kyl. so that s the premise. too little time. that it just takes too long. it takes two weeks typically. that s what mcconnell said. we did some checking, however. here s the legislative history of last year s defense authorization. senate bill 1390, taken up on july 13th. considered 340 amendments and passed it ten days later. that s actually unusually long. in other years the time frame is even shorter. according to democratic congressional staffers