house Bill H.R. 3055
Funding the Federal Gov’t Thru December 20th to Avoid a Shutdown
Argument in favor
There isn’t enough time for the Democratic House and Republican Senate to reach bipartisan consensus on spending with the White House. It’s not ideal, but this bill would prevent a partial government shutdown on November 21st and give Congress until December 20th to cut a deal.
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06/25/2019
Pass the bill but, make sure you are not screwing around with the Census. Make sure you Properly fund the VA & NASA.
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06/25/2019
What’s wrong with this bill, Col. Cook? Not enough money for the wall? Trump could always negotiate with Mexico as promised....
06/25/2019
Looks Good!! NOT a “nightmare for transparency” Oversight is the job of the House and Nancy Pelosi is in charge!
Argument opposed
Rather than procrastinating by extending government funding for a month, Congress should focus on reaching a bipartisan spending agreement before November 21st so that a stop-gap funding bill like this isn’t needed.
06/24/2019
Too many issues in one minibus bill. Lots of it good but...Too much military spending. No money for a physical wall. I won’t support Census spending with a citizenship question or pass it and I won’t answer the census. Your choice. All humanitarian aid must be spent on the asylum seekers path to citizenship and working, not detention and deportation. No more money for private prisons and nothing for DOJ til Barr is gone.
06/23/2019
You cannot put five different departments into one funding bill, regardless of the breakdown. This is where the United States gets into trouble financially. We must be able to accurately debate each department with its own funding bill, but not take too long to deliberately derail funding for the year.
So no, stop putting so many departments and agencies into one spending bill.
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06/25/2019
I want to see how each is funded . Too many very important agencies may not get the funding actually needed at the end of the day.
Pass the bill but, make sure you are not screwing around with the Census. Make sure you Properly fund the VA & NASA.
Too many issues in one minibus bill. Lots of it good but...Too much military spending. No money for a physical wall. I won’t support Census spending with a citizenship question or pass it and I won’t answer the census. Your choice. All humanitarian aid must be spent on the asylum seekers path to citizenship and working, not detention and deportation. No more money for private prisons and nothing for DOJ til Barr is gone.
You cannot put five different departments into one funding bill, regardless of the breakdown. This is where the United States gets into trouble financially. We must be able to accurately debate each department with its own funding bill, but not take too long to deliberately derail funding for the year.
So no, stop putting so many departments and agencies into one spending bill.
What’s wrong with this bill, Col. Cook? Not enough money for the wall? Trump could always negotiate with Mexico as promised....
Looks Good!! NOT a “nightmare for transparency” Oversight is the job of the House and Nancy Pelosi is in charge!
I want to see how each is funded . Too many very important agencies may not get the funding actually needed at the end of the day.
I always have a problem with minibus bills and really don’t have a clear yes/no answer. I think there are a lot of good things in this legislation package. I like funding for NASA, NOAA and NSF-good science is key to resolving long-term issues. I like the rider that prohibits the citizenship question from being part of the census. I like keeping federal agencies and the VA funded. I hate the whole concept of rolling these into a big package which obfuscates “who supports what” without debating “why”. Overall, in this case, I feel the good outweighs the bad, so Yeah.
One bill. One vote. We need deep cuts in military spending. Killing poor brown people to help further enrich a malicious class of money changers is not ok with me.
I’m sick you you all doing this. How many bills in this one vote. This is bs that we can do without drain the SWAMP.
I don’t get what you all are doing
NO MONEY FOR THE CENSUS UNTIL THE RACIST CITIZENSHIP QUESTION IS REMOVED!
This spending is needed, the citizenship question in the census must end.
👎👎The ”Minibus” Appropriations Bill 👎👎
👎🏻👎🏻This package also includes partisan riders, such as the prohibition on including a citizenship question in the Census.👎🏻👎🏻
I stand opposed to This “minibus” appropriations bill would provide $383.3 billion in FY2020 appropriations for agencies funded under five appropriations titles: Commerce-Justice-Science; Agriculture-Rural Development-FDA; Interior-Environment; Military Construction-Veterans Affairs; and Transportation-Housing and Urban Development. A breakdown of its various provisions can be found below.
Packaging five appropriations bills into one “minibus” package that totals more than $383 billion is a nightmare for transparency.
Sneaky Pete........ 👎👎👎👎 6.25.19......
Do your F-ing job! Congressional duplicity is intolerable. Stop this assault on the American taxpayer. Vote the do-nothing Democrats out of office.
This ‘Minibus’ bill is much better than the other one. Less military funding, no Hyde amendment, and includes the removal of the citizenship question on the census. It is also only including about 1/3 of the money that was being used for the previous ‘Minibus’ bill. It’s not cramming so much federal funding into one bill as well, so this bill should definitely pass.
I hate these mega bills. Do you guys even read them? We are still underfunding our critical non-military scientific research agencies. NOAA, NASA, NSF, EPA, CDC to name a few. This is a shoestring budget for agencies that actually help protect America from real threats. Like disease, deadly hurricanes, tsunami, and corporate malfeasance. Maybe cut some of that bloated military budget and give it to the agencies that are actually protecting Americans from the things that really can hurt them. I hate these kind of bills because reading them takes forever and there’s stuff in here that I really don’t want, but we also have to pass it.
F U Bastards for NOT DOING YOUR JOBS. I AM ASHAMED OF ALL OF YOU! Stop kicking the can down the road! We are sick of you all!
Do the job you were elected to do! No border wall. Pay back the money you stole from us from Social Security. Support climate change, healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc. Cut the outrageous military spending. Stop Humpy Dumpy from taking trips to his properties and save us millions of dollars. DO THE JOB YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO! QUIT PROCRASTINATING!
I’m happy to see that my party is trying to get things done, it’s unfortunate that republicans keep blocking everything we bring to the table. It is really petty and childish
This issue definitely separates the readers from the just-vote-and-ramble folks.
The plethora of different responses is a great example of the reason everything was put into a minibus like this; taking even one of these issues out makes this a partisan dog-fight.
Nobody wins if this doesn’t pass, we just go back to more fighting. Bottom line, this does a lot for maintaining the status quo and keeping as much insanity as possible out of our national debit account.
This is a solid bill. Let’s see it passed and ready to go by the time the fiscal year rolls over so we are shutting down our government any more. Make the president sign it or own another shutdown (again).