CONGRESS CAN’T EVEN DO THE SMALL STUFF POLITI
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Posted On: 01/23/2014 1:25:00 PM
CONGRESS CAN’T EVEN DO THE SMALL STUFF
POLITICO’s Darren Samuelsohn and David Nather: “Congress can’t do anything big, and it turns out getting the small stuff done is no easy lift, either. All the dysfunctional partisan gridlock keeping the House and Senate worlds apart on the big issues of the day also means little progress on the simple things, like technical corrections and minor fixes to Obamacare and … Dodd-Frank … Revamping the nation’s energy policies with low-hanging fruit proposals championed by both Democratic and GOP lawmakers are stuck, too. It’s a broken government with messy consequences.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has become an expert at blocking floor votes on politically tinged amendments … House Speaker John Boehner has declared that his legacy shouldn’t be measured by how many laws make it to President Barack Obama’s desk … It’s a similar story for Dodd-Frank. Multiple bipartisan proposals circulating on both ends of the Capitol would tweak the 2010 law, but the same fear exists among Democratic leadership that critics would just go gangbusters trying to unravel the whole thing.”
http://politico.pro/1imdKjE
POLITICO’s Darren Samuelsohn and David Nather: “Congress can’t do anything big, and it turns out getting the small stuff done is no easy lift, either. All the dysfunctional partisan gridlock keeping the House and Senate worlds apart on the big issues of the day also means little progress on the simple things, like technical corrections and minor fixes to Obamacare and … Dodd-Frank … Revamping the nation’s energy policies with low-hanging fruit proposals championed by both Democratic and GOP lawmakers are stuck, too. It’s a broken government with messy consequences.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has become an expert at blocking floor votes on politically tinged amendments … House Speaker John Boehner has declared that his legacy shouldn’t be measured by how many laws make it to President Barack Obama’s desk … It’s a similar story for Dodd-Frank. Multiple bipartisan proposals circulating on both ends of the Capitol would tweak the 2010 law, but the same fear exists among Democratic leadership that critics would just go gangbusters trying to unravel the whole thing.”
http://politico.pro/1imdKjE
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