Tom Carper just made me LOL
When I got to the last sentence I literally LOL’ed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep federal highway money flowing to the states into December but only after rejecting the House’s reliance on what lawmakers called a funding “gimmick” and moving to force a post-election debate on whether to raise gasoline taxes.
The House could accept the Senate’s changes or reject them and send the bill back to the Senate. Whichever outcome, a highway funding bill is still expected to clear Congress before lawmakers adjourn for the summer later this week.
The Senate took up a $10.8 billion bill the House passed last week that would have kept the federal Highway Trust Fund solvent through next May and voted 66-31 to strip out controversial funding provisions, leaving $8.1 billion.
That’s enough to keep programs going only through Dec. 19. The amendment’s sponsors — Democrats Tom Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California and Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee — said they want Congress to reach a long-term funding solution this year and they hope that will be easier after the November election when partisan tempers will presumably have cooled.
It could could happen, Carney’s been working real hard to make friends on the other side of the aisle…
Carper stripped it of House GOP bullshit provisions…. where’s the breathless coverage of that?
If he did, (and I’m not taking your word for it) whoop-de-fucking-doo for doing his goddam job for a change. If it isn’t begin covered by the media it is probably because he doesn’t want it spoken of for fear of injuring the delicate feelings of his GOP bros.
“Democrats Tom Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California and Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee — said they want Congress to reach a long-term funding solution this year and they hope that will be easier after the November election when partisan tempers will presumably have cooled.”
I just giggled my ass off again. What a douche.
Carper’s right.
(1) Highway improvements need to be paid for by taxes, not by underfunding pensions.
(2) In a bicameral legislature, where each party controls a chamber, support from both parties is needed. It’s logical that one of the less insane Republicans and one of the least liberal Democrats be part of getting a bill done.