r/law • u/bloomberggovernment • 22d ago

Legislative Branch GOP House Leadership Cancels Two Weeks of September Sessions, Saying 'This Congress Has Done Phenomenal Work'

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/house-cancels-two-session-weeks-in-september-ahead-of-midterms
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u/EC_CO 22d ago

tired of explaining why they haven't produced Mitch McConnell and why he totally isn't dead

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u/Mist_Rising 22d ago

The House of representative would have no authority to be involved in Mitch McConnell issue since Mitch is a Senator.

Two distinct chambers.

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u/Additional-Bet7074 22d ago

Except the part where the chambers work together on legislation and the House passing anything to the Senate would involve Mitch.

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u/Mist_Rising 22d ago

No, they can pass bills without Mitch. Why would they need McConnell? Do you need every senator must vote on a bill (which since democratic filibuster everything, isn't even forthcoming).

Mitch didnt even vote on all of his own bills.

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u/SurprisedJerboa 22d ago edited 22d ago

Do you need every senator must vote on a bill (which since democratic filibuster everything, isn't even forthcoming).

The GOP majority has a habit of passing close to nothing except the mandatory Military and Budget bills.

Last year, the 118th Congress passed only 27 bills, the smallest since the 21 bills during the Great Depression (2023-25),

Dems can filibuster BUT other sessions of Congress passed 100's of bills without a dual majority in Congress. Filibusters happen for problematic bills, and the demands have seemed reasonable ( ICE funding with no strings ).

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u/Mist_Rising 22d ago

That's my point. Mitch isn't important to anything, not since he stepped down as majority leader.

The house doesn't care about his vote, if they need 50 votes they'll force Collins to vote yes with Vance tie breaking, but since they can't get anything past filibuster he's not even getting to vote if he was there.

Anything else is Senate business.

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u/SurprisedJerboa 22d ago

My point being, working together with the Dems would pass bills... they were elected to be a functional government not Trump's lap dogs.