Pork barrel spending is the controversial practice of a legislature directing spending in a specific manner, often to benefit the district or constituents of the member who requests it. It acquired an unsavory reputation in the United States after the Civil War, when congressional spending bills rou...
If you are not “burdened” as a male with a day job, bills to pay, helping a friend put on a new roof – you are, as men often say, “As useless as a bicycle for a fish.” Useless men are dangerous men. Just look at Jihadist recruits. Consider that 30,000 men die from pros...
The resulting bills passed and signed at the end of last year’s legislative session werea mixed bag. Wage increases were approved for the state’shealthcareandfast-food workers. Workers are nowguaranteed at least five paid sick days, up from three...
The strongest type of presidential veto is the direct veto. The presidents of America and Singapore, for example, have this style of veto. The Singaporean president can veto appointments to ensure thecivil serviceremains apolitical. He or she is also allowed to block legislation that is deemed t...
bills that was going to be put to a vote last week before GOPSens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utahannounced that they would not vote on a motion to proceed with the bill, and several other Republican senators have said they don’t support it. The Senate parliamentarianhas ...
Wisconsin Republicans are looking to pick up one seat in the state Senate and five in the Assembly, enough to give them a super majority which could override any veto by the governor. Evers has vetoed more than 100 bills and cast himself as a check on Republicans in his reelection bid. ...
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Trump claims to have signed more bills than any president ever in his first six months.“We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president, ever,” Trump said at a “Made in America” event. Carter signed 70 bills in his first six months...
President Nixon used the impound power to block bills he'd vetoed but Congress had overridden; with no funding, there was no legislation. In response, Congress passed the Budget and Impoundment Control Act in 1974, and the presidential power to impound appropriations was revoked. How a ...
If Democrats have 52 or 53 senators next year, they'll have the power to ignore Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin and get rid of the filibuster themselves. But, again, it'd be rather pointless. Sure, the Senate could pass a whole bunch of good bills, but then they'd go over to the ...