Call an Emergency Session Now
Where the hell is the urgency? Republicans sat on their hands when they had time to act.
This typcial inaction is why the GOP took such a beating election day.
Call an emergency session now. Every Republican in the House and Senate should be in their seat, ready to vote, through January 3. Cancel the recesses. Work through the holidays. If it takes midnight votes and Sunday sessions, so be it. Every hour they spend jockeying for leadership posts is an hour they could spend doing the jobs voters sent them to Washington to do. Confirm Trump’s judges. Write his border security policies into law. Pass the spending cuts. Put every last piece of unfinished business on the floor and make them vote. Republicans had months to get this done and sat on their hands. Now every damn second counts. If they run out the clock while they still hold the gavel, they’ll have spent their last days in power making excuses for why they never used it...
Florida Senator Rick Scott was one of a number of leaders pressing his colleagues: I believe we must use every available moment of time remaining in the 119th Congress to deliver for the American people. We ought to stay in session every day, 24 hours per day with a relentless focus on creating jobs , lowering prices, attacking government corruption and holding Washington accountable until we achieve our goals, including: • Confirming every nominee President Trump has sent to the Senate – prioritizing Lifetime judicial appointments...
The Wall Street Journal makes a similar argument...