Expensive Lunch Club (13)

Criticism that the Senate has become little more than what one member calls an “EXPENSIVE LUNCH CLUB, ” Congress returned for the fall session yesterday, with  pressure mounting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to address gun violence, (resticting your Consitutinal rights) election security and other issues.

Trump wants Congress to pass the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal. And Congress needs to fund the government *by the end of the month* or risk another federal #Shutdown. But the president roiled talks by shifting $3.6 billion from military projects for 175 miles of BORDER WALL and fallout continues over migrant detentions. Questions of impeachment hover.

Yesterday...

Trump Still Interested in Background-Checks –
Delaware Senator, ChrisCoons (D) talking to IvankaTrump about 2A !!??
It is the twilight zone!

Chris Coons -Democrat, is the junior United States Senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party. He won a special election in 2010 to succeed Ted Kaufman, who had been appointed to the seat when Joe Biden resigned to become Vice President.

Schumer: We Will Force a Vote to Terminate Trump’s Emergency Declaration

During a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that Democrats will force a vote to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration within the next month.

Schumer said, “As stipulated by the National Emergencies Act, Democrats will once again force a vote to terminate the president’s national emergency declaration. The provisions of the national emergency act dictate that the resolution of disapproval be privileged, and therefore must be voted upon.”

Clinton declared 17 national emergencies, Bush, 13, and Obama, 13, Tump 3-4

Trump has the authority to declare a national emergency under the 1976 National Emergencies Act. This law essentially allows a president to define what he believes constitutes a national emergency and subsequently make a related declaration, the Washington Post reported. This declaration then allows the president access to specialized funds via certain emergency laws.

All recent presidents going back to Jimmy Carter have declared at least one national emergency during their time in office, CNN noted. For his part, Barack Obama declared 13 national emergencies, with many of them focused on international affairs and containing foreign conflicts, the outlet reported.

Alyssa Milano: 'I Have Two Guns in My Household for Self-Defense'

The joke is on America.
Canadian born of Cuban descent, Senator, having a 2A debate with a D-list Hollywood harlot !!

(1:14) Is This How the Reign of Terror Began?

House Sub Committee Hearing On Civil Rights And Civil Liberties

Rep #Talib told Tom Holman his tenure as acting #ICE chief will always be remembered as inhumane. He tries to respond and #AOC gives him the gavel

(2:20) Congressman Nadler: Trump a Threat to Democracy – (True.. Because it is a Republic!)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says there’s no confusion about what his committee is doing: It’s an impeachment investigation, no matter how you want to phrase it.

Is it impeachment if Speaker Pelosi doesn't say so?

Bristling over the “I? word, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stopped short Thursday of saying the House is ready to launch an impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump , even as Judiciary Committee Democrats set the stage to do just that

(1:39) DOJ Says, ‘No Way’ –

The Justice Department told a judge Friday that the House Judiciary Committee shouldn’t get access to secret grand jury material amassed during the special counsel’s Russia investigation, even as it weighs whether to pursue impeachment.

The response comes nearly two months after the committee filed a petition in federal court arguing that lawmakers need to obtain the grand jury material in order to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment.

In court papers filed in federal court in Washington, the Justice Department argued the committee HADN'T PROVIDED A SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION about how the material would help in the panel’s  investigations of President Donald Trump. The government also argued that ANY POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDING IN CONGRESS WOULD'T BE CONSIDERED A "JUDICIAL PROCEEDING” UNDER LAW, for which the information could be disclosed.

The U.S. Senate voted on Sept. 25 to pass a Democrat-sponsored bill to block President Donald Trump’s *national emergency declaration over the southern border* FOR A SECOND TIME. However, the chamber FAILED TO GET THE NECESSARY 2/3 MAJORITY NEEDED TO OVERCOME THE PRESIDENT'S VETO POWER
The Senate voted 54-41 to end the emergency declaration, and 11 Republicans joined Democrats. In March, the Senate made a similar attempt but also failed to reach the two-thirds majority, prompting Trump to veto the bill.

Republican Senators:
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.),
Roy Blunt (Mo.),
Susan Collins (Maine),
Mike Lee (Utah),
Jerry Moran (Kan.),
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.),
Rob Portman (Ohio),
Mitt Romney (Utah),
Pat Toomey (Pa.),
Roger Wicker (Miss.)
voted to end the declaration