Father figure Republicans must discipline their 14 wayward subordinates who would not “come home.”
TPM: As WisPolitics reports, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) sent a letter to his fellow Republicans, reminding them that they had previously found the Democrats to be in contempt of the chamber -- and as such, they are not to be allowed to vote on committees: “Therefore, when taking roll call votes on amendments and bills during executive sessions, Senate Democrats' … are free to attend hearings, listen to testimony, debate legislation, introduce amendments, and cast votes to signal their support/opposition, but those votes will not count, and will not be recorded.”
Elsewhere, another Republicans found a way to make health care a little bit cheaper; if we just got rid of all those “defective” people:
State Rep. Martin Harty (R-NH) has resigned from the New Hampshire House of Representatives following his comment to a constituent that mentally challenged people and other "defective" people should die in a modern-day Siberia.
Elsewhere, Republicans have not stopped trying to bleed more American jobs with a couple of new trade deals waiting in the wings:
Sen. Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch pledged in a letter on Monday to hold up any White House nominee to replace departing Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as well as nominees for any other trade-related posts until trade agreements with Colombia and Panama clear the Senate. "My fear is in trying to appease their union allies the administration is willing to let these two agreements wither on the vine," Hatch said
We would hate to protect those offensively high paying union jobs when we could send the work to Columbia and Panama.
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