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Halt. And he can do it using a Senate Protocol that allows for any single senator to block any nomination by placing a hold on it. But thats how Lindsey Graham is able to block all nominees, not why. To understand why graham wants to bring government to a halt, you have to meet Lindsey Grahams primary challenger, South Carolina state senator lee bright. Patrick henry said give me liberty or give me death. Weve got folks in our country thats getting above 50 that say give me liberty or give me a card. Lindsey graham, like john boehner and the House Republicans before him, is threatening to esse...

Senate until the survivors are being made available to congress. Im tired of hearing from people on tv and reading about stuff in books. We need to get to the bottom of this. Just 12 days since the government reopened, and Lindsey Graham is promising to bring executive appointments to a halt. And he can do it using a Senate Protocol that allows for any single senator to block any nomination by placing a hold on it. But thats how Lindsey Graham is able to block all nominees, not why. To understand why graham wants to bring government to a halt, you have to meet Lindsey Grahams primary challenge...

Single senator to block any nomination by placing a hold on it. But thats how Lindsey Graham is able to block all nominees, not why. To understand why graham wants to bring government to a halt, you have to meet Lindsey Grahams primary challenger, South Carolina state senator lee bright. Patrick henry said give me liberty or give me death. Weve got folks in our country thats getting above 50 that say give me liberty or give me a card. Lindsey graham, like john boehner and the House Republicans before him, is threatening to essentially shut down part of the government so he can defend himself f...

The gentleman from wisconsin. Mr. Ryan i yield two minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Rothfus. Mr. Rothfus i thank chairman ryan for the hard work he has been doing over the last several years as we look to get a handle on the spending problem we have here in washington, d. C. Mr. Chairman, our debt is out of control. In the past 10 years it has doubled from 7. 1 trillion to 17. 6 trillion today. We paid 416 billion in interest just last year. Imagine where that money could have been better spent. Failure to address the debt and deficits reduces opportunity and prosperity for futu...

Work. Exert their efforts. Thats where they want to concentrate. Thats where when you have a bill that comes to committee, you can have maybe 200, 300 amendments in committee. And the chairman and the Ranking Member thats the name we give to the person with the most seniority in the minority can sit down together and sort through these amendments. And out of the 200, there are probably 100 that nobody would really in their right mind offer. And out of the remaining ones, youll find that there are people on both sides that have very similar ideas on how to solve that problem. And you get those ...