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@Mott-The-Hoople saidThe lying Gateway Pundit:
the house passed the bill, schumer was holding it up.
but liberals read their leftist propaganda and run with it…like shathouse and several here do
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/democrats-run-disinformation-campaign-blaming-musk-trump-child/
"There was bipartisan support for this legislation until Elon Musk and Donald Trump stepped in, at which point Republicans removed the cancer funding from the updated continuing resolution.
At the same time, Senator Rand Paul was blocking the bill from moving forward as a stand alone bill in the United States Senate.
For a while it seemed as though this critical cancer research funding would not be included in any final continuing resolution given the Republican Party's opposition in the House. But, overnight, the United States Senate passed the bill via unanimous consent after Paul dropped his objections to the bill. "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/united-states-senate-passes-pediatric-cancer-research-funding/ar-AA1whLBz
The program was enacted under Obama in 2014 and funded for 10 years, but needed to be reauthorized with more funding which was done by folding it into the original spending compromise which Musk blocked:
"he bill's funding needed to be extended this year, and Mike Johnson's initial bill dedicated approximately $190 million to continue research through 2033. However, according to Bulwark, it was one of the many health programs cut when the bill was reduced from 1,500 pages to just 116 pages, which Musk later gloated about on his platform, X."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/republicans-quietly-remove-child-cancer-research-funds-from-budget-after-elon-push-to-kill-government-spending-bill/ar-AA1weAnJ
Your source (msn)is state run media lying
“Democrats are using children with cancer as political shields in the shutdown game to blame Republicans after using them as political shields to help defend all the slop Democrats wanted included in the bill. If this funding is so important, it can be passed on its own as a stand-alone bill. You know, like how the government is supposed to work, instead of cramming hundreds of useless proposals into the same bill as pediatric cancer research funding in a 1,500-page mess that no one actually reads so that you can attack anyone who doesn’t support the useless stuff by claiming they hate children with cancer.”
this was a stand alone bill passed by the house 9 months ago. Rand Paul does not have the power nor ability to hold it up. schumer does.
Democrats were holding this bill hostage to get their pork in
The bill has now passed as a stand alone
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3267146/why-are-democrats-blocking-funding-for-child-cancer-research/
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThe only state-run media outlets the US has that I can think of are C-SPAN and Voice of America. 😆
Your source (msn)is state run media lying
@Mott-The-Hoople saidAny Senator can put a hold on legislation by refusing to agree on unanimous consent which is how the Senate usually conducts business. Paul's hold blocked passage of the standalone until he relented two days ago; otherwise it would have had to go through the arcane arduous Senate rules.
Your source (msn)is state run media lying
“Democrats are using children with cancer as political shields in the shutdown game to blame Republicans after using them as political shields to help defend all the slop Democrats wanted included in the bill. If this funding is so important, it can be passed on its own as a stand-alone bill. You know, like how the governme ...[text shortened]... m/opinion/beltway-confidential/3267146/why-are-democrats-blocking-funding-for-child-cancer-research/
Your sources are telling you BS and you, like most right wingers these days, prefer to keep believing a lie even when confronted with the truth.
LMAO, you use a Washington Examiner opinion piece as a source.
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@no1marauder saidschumer could have made a motion to proceed
Any Senator can put a hold on legislation by refusing to agree on unanimous consent which is how the Senate usually conducts business. Paul's hold blocked passage of the standalone until he relented two days ago; otherwise it would have had to go through the arcane arduous Senate rules.
Your sources are telling you BS and you, like most right wingers these days, prefer ...[text shortened]... en when confronted with the truth.
LMAO, you use a Washington Examiner opinion piece as a source.
@Mott-The-Hoople said"A large majority of measures reach the floor of the Senate when the Senate accepts a unanimous consent request to proceed to consider them made by the majority leader (or his designee). "
schumer could have made a motion to proceed
"Alternatively, the majority leader may instead offer a motion that the Senate proceed to
consideration of a measure, particularly if he has been unable to negotiate a unanimous consent
agreement to do so.5 Although this motion requires only a simple majority for approval, in most
parliamentary situations it is debatable. As a result, the motion to proceed is itself susceptible to
extended debate. Accordingly, even before a measure can itself reach the Senate floor, there may
be a filibuster on the question of whether the Senate should consider it at all.6
The majority leader may attempt to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed but may still be faced
with a filibuster against the underlying measure. Since 1959, the rules of the Senate have allowed
cloture to be invoked on the motion to proceed regardless of the type of underlying measure.7
On January 24, 2013, the Senate amended Senate Rule XXII to establish an additional, optional
process of invoking cloture on a motion to proceed that differs in some respects from the normal
cloture process.8 Under this process, if a cloture motion filed on a motion to proceed to consider a
measure or matter is signed by both floor leaders, seven additional Senators not affiliated with the
majority party, and seven additional Senators not affiliated with the minority party, it will be
eligible for a vote on the next session day (as opposed to the second day of session, as would
otherwise be the case). If cloture is invoked, the vote will immediately be put on the motion to
proceed without the usual 30 hours of post-cloture consideration.9"
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RS20668.pdf
So if Paul hadn't put a "hold" on it, it probably would have been passed months ago. Schumer didn't "block" anything.
You were told BS and believed it. Worse, you still believe it. The idea that the Democratic leadership would block pediatric cancer research as part of a program passed 10 years ago under Obama is facially absurd to all but the most gullible MAGA morons.
@no1marauder said“"Alternatively, the majority leader may instead offer a motion that the Senate proceed to
"A large majority of measures reach the floor of the Senate when the Senate accepts a unanimous consent request to proceed to consider them made by the majority leader (or his designee). "
"Alternatively, the majority leader may instead offer a motion that the Senate proceed to
consideration of a measure, particularly if he has been unable to negotiate a unanimous co ...[text shortened]... program passed 10 years ago under Obama is facially absurd to all but the most gullible MAGA morons.
consideration of a measure, particularly if he has been unable to negotiate a unanimous consent ”
read it dumbass
@Mott-The-Hoople
Democrats were holding this bill hostage to get their pork in...
The bill has now passed as a stand alone
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PORK is the democrats middle name, for gawd's sake
@spruce112358 saidPublic Broadcasting Service (PBS), and their associated radio network
The only state-run media outlets the US has that I can think of are C-SPAN and Voice of America. 😆
@Mott-The-Hoople saidDon't tell me you caught No1 lying again... OH MY GOD 😲 😲 😲 😲
“"Alternatively, the majority leader may instead offer a motion that the Senate proceed to
consideration of a measure, particularly if he has been unable to negotiate a unanimous consent ”
read it dumbass
@Earl-of-Trumps saidits not that hard ya know 🤓
Don't tell me you caught No1 lying again... OH MY GOD 😲 😲 😲 😲
@Earl-of-Trumps saidPBS and NPR are not state-run media. 😆
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and their associated radio network
About half their funding comes from the CPB which is a bipartisan non-profit organization. It essentially filters out any state interference Congress might try to apply against PBS, since the funds go to the CPB which then distributes them to PBS and NPR stations. CPB doesn't develop any content.
"Stations that receive CPB funds must meet certain requirements, such as the maintenance or provision of open meetings, open financial records, a community advisory board, equal employment opportunity, and lists of donors and political activities."
"The CPB is governed by a nine-member board of directors selected by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate; they serve six-year terms, and are allowed to continue serving until the end of the calendar year that their term ends or until their successor is seated on the board. Under the terms of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the president cannot appoint persons of the same political party to more than five of the nine CPB board seats."
Only once has a political activist tried to take over the CPB. That was Kenneth Tomlinson, a Republican. He was ousted.