Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.
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Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.
I found the reason on Wikipedia
"The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder."
It's the bird the US leadership most identifies with.
Dee is my national bird.
I think it's the eyes...
Ah yes, really focusing on the important shit here. I can see why the US is doing so well.
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i mean, less than ideal time, but this was a long time coming, you should look into the laws surrounding bald eagles, one of the most protected species in the US lol.
Doesn't seem very fitting. Maybe pick one of those birds that eat eggs from other species, replaces with their own and then their babies destroy the other eggs.
Biden could protest this nothing bill by refusing to sign it or veto it. ~~Worst case, he leaves a bit of extra paperwork for Trump.~~
Edit: some context
President has 10 days to sign or veto. If 10 days pass, the bill will become a law if Congress is in session. The bill will die if it is in recess.
Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.
Snow woman
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yass queen
Was it not already?
Not technically no, we all apparently thought it was. Now it is official.
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turkey
Never had a national bird, according to this article. Thank God our infinitely wise and useful government got on that before they lost all their power to actually do anything meaningful or helpful. 🦅🇺🇸
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It's not like if they didn't pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all - I hate the "Is this a good use of your time" argument.
But it's never a bad time to criticize how ineffective lawmakers are.
They could get a vote on the record where Republicans voted against healthcare. We got this bird thing though, so that's neat.
They could have tried to do anything actually beneficial for Americans instead though. Like, think about how many hours of work it took Klobuchar's political peons just to draft the stupid thing. And, they we paid them to do it!! Get fucked Congress.
Anything other than this would've had an impact on people's lives. They don't need universal healthcare. They need something.
Your comment is a prime example of the nirvana fallacy.
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The 118th Session? Yeah, we don't even have a parallel in all of the history of the US to mark how unproductive this session has been. Like not even during the Civil War was Congress this underwhelming. The 118th Session has set a new low water mark for "things gotten done".
The biggest issue was that the House spent something like ~60% of their time in Committee doing "investigations" that ultimately led nowhere. Like, I'll throw Congress a bone here, if they actually impeached someone with all those investigations, I'd give it to them. But that literally nobody was impeached all those investigations basically go into the "wasted time" column.
And they can't impeach any of them come the 119th session because... New President, new people. So all that time they invested goes to waste. Hell, even Hunter I can't give it to them, because in the end, he got a pardon. And as soon as Trump gives the J6 folks a pardon, all that work the Democrats did becomes wasted as well.
But the 118th spent the vast majority of their time in investigations, so they got so little actually done and passed.
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Have you heard what they sound like? It isn’t what’s usually depicted in videos.
Colbert Report wouldn't have lied to us!
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