White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday declined to respond to proposals that would punish members of Congress in the event of a government shutdown. Funding for the federal government currently runs out on April 28, just days after Congress returns from recess.
“There’s a proposal now to punish members of Congress who do not pass this spending plan in a variety of ways, withhold salary, even arrest,” McClatchy’s Anita Kumar asked Spicer during his daily briefing. “Do you support that Congress should be punished?”
“Let’s see. I think we’re making significant progress,” Spicer said. “I feel very good about their momentum and so I don’t want to start getting into whether who’s going to be naughty and nice.”
Sens. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) introduced bipartisan legislation earlier this month that would force senators to remain in Washington, D.C., until the resolution of such a shutdown. The bill calls for the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms to “arrest missing senators” who fail to respond to a request for quorum, the minimum attendance necessary to conduct Senate business.
The “No Budget, No Pay Act,” which Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) introduced in March, would stop the pay of members of Congress in “any fiscal year in which Congress has not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the regular appropriations bills.”
Rep. Rick Nolan (D-MN) also introduced in March the “No Government No Pay Act,” which would “prohibit the pay” of members of Congress during a governmental shutdown.
Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) in March introduced a bill “to reduce the annual rate of pay of Members of Congress if a Government shutdown occurs during a year.”
“In every other profession, if you don’t do your job, you don’t get paid,” Schrader told McClatchy in a report published Wednesday. “Why on earth should we be any different?”
“In every other profession, if you don’t do your job, you don’t get paid,” Schrader told McClatchy in a report published Wednesday.
“Naughty and nice?” Munt first does the Easter Bunny and is now channeling Santa Claus.
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Mike Mulvaney won’t ask a single mom in Detroit to pay for Sesame St. or Meals On Wheels, but he will ask her to pay for the biggest bomb ever dropped by the man with the tiniest hands. I am going to explode.
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“In every other profession, if you don’t do your job, you don’t get paid,” Schrader told McClatchy in a report published Wednesday.[/quote]
Except that the idea is unconstitutional. This was a big deal in the previous government shutdowns - see the 27th amendment.
Naughty was a 5-yo me saying ‘butt’ out loud. Or
My brother 5 years older than me telling me this joke…He- KnockKnock Me-who’s there? He - Centipede . Me Centipede who? Centipede on a Christmas tree… I didn’t get it …until I told the joke to my Mom…