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BumRushDaShow

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8. As FYI - the whole point of hearings and reports in Congress
Sat Dec 21, 2024, 12:04 PM
Dec 21

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is so that they can draft legislation to "fix a problem". Reports like this provide justification for the language in any legislation and can uncover any loopholes in existing law.

Of course the passage of that legislation is dependent on who can get the majority of the votes to pass it and only having had a "majority" of 51 votes (but it was more like a minority of 49 with Manchin and Sinema) and no control over the House, then what was left was to build the foundation for when we are back in the position to enact new laws.

We could go "extra-judicial" and drag the asses Alito and Thomas and their wives out of their homes and throw them in prison to "show balls", but THAT is not "democracy"...

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