Subject: RE: The Aftermath of the House vote
From: "Randy Russell" <[email-masked]>
To: "Charles Dujon" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:29:38 +0000

Charles-thanks for all the updates-occasionally the system works. Very solid victories for you guys on funding of key food aid accounts-great work! Have a good weekend. Randy

From: Charles Dujon [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 9:24 AM
Subject: FW: The Aftermath of the House vote

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Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 at 9:06 AM
To: Charles Dujon <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: The Aftermath of the House vote

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December 12, 2014

Shortly before 11 PM last night the Senate approved the two-day CR which will give the Senate time to debate and pass HR 83, the FY 15 CRO.  Passage could come as early as today or as late as Monday.

Articles this morning provided details on what happened yesterday between 2 PM when the House recessed and 10 PM when it finally passed the CRO.  We know the Democrats caucused for hours and that the White House sent the Chief of Staff to the meeting to try to get more yes votes.   According to the NYT, caucus members said a no vote "was one of conscience, and a chance for Democrats to demonstrate their allegiance with the middle class."

"We've got to stand up for principle at some point, or they're going to kick us even more next year when they have a bigger majority," said Representative Peter A. DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon. "They know we will stand our ground on principle in the future and not roll us so easily again."

 Roll Call  broke down the final votes and found that some were predictable and some were surprising.   According to Roll Call, appropriators split and one announced "No" voter switched sides:  click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001c_uVbdLzHG2uL2Z1MWayjJLz3XJhvED_RgrrwAPwcGgHQASc2krdGzHT2KRyYyvdqd9PKsM056pXff--ubxrcoqtoLtDOe5rNKs-mVyur7mTYm2sS0CQ_U42l5toqt2iEqf_ZWEd2CBxpia4CKKYI9bz2CYK0Np0NbLsJRGI15KUidMYJ1bHnAPOxSGSdmXM5CVbJ7T4izN16nQSkkUDgpGK4GrTZyEoZnoc4lxey3k=&c=7kQbsGAuJHA3Mo_XEcIe_jwMxct0sU5zGzUch7rqqNyDGCc4_gQwQw==&ch=4ZQkw9F4LAT9jj0lxvJL94U_BLQkCDID-05YsJMTL4eRrToiZ8klNg==>

In summary of yesterday The NYT's Carl Hulse reflected on the loss of good legislative compromise:

As veteran lawmakers and congressional aides watched the struggles of a measure that was backed by the majority leadership of both the House and the Senate as well as the White House, they acknowledged that the deep partisanship and procedural disorder of recent years have taken a significant toll on the ability of the House and the Senate to get things done.

"You have a real breakdown in the institution, and this is the result of that breakdown," said Representative Doc Hastings, the retiring Washington Republican. ...

Congress used to be a place where lawmakers tried to cut the best deal they could. Then they would back the final product even if it had elements they didn't like as a way to advance their own priorities. If every lawmaker insists on ideological perfection in every bill, not much can get done.

Hulse also pointed out that there is a new term on Capitol Hill to describe these uncertain legislative times - "going to the blue screen"

 Any visitor to the Capitol must have wondered what happened on Thursday afternoon when the House went into an unexpected break and a loud wail went through the congressional press corps followed by this strange exclamation: "Blue screen!"

Here's the backstory. In recent years, the sign of an imminent legislative collapse - and a potentially long day and night ahead - was signaled by the House suddenly going into recess with no explanation. C-Span, which is on most television monitors around the Capitol, would respond by showing a blue screen for long stretches with a notice that the House was in recess subject to the call of the chair.

It quickly became known as the Blue Screen of Death because it meant that some piece of legislation was in serious trouble.

And finally because it is Friday and many of you will be going to office parties and will talk about something less serious - here's a little bit of humor from an interview that Stephen Colbert did with outgoing House LHHS Chairman Jack Kingston.    It gets funnier as it goes on and ends with some unexpected moves from Kingston and Nancy Pelosi:  click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001c_uVbdLzHG2uL2Z1MWayjJLz3XJhvED_RgrrwAPwcGgHQASc2krdGzHT2KRyYyvdnmeu6Czv9dfVbqKamGNDA4i23ajlpw0ovUaBYWFq44e12-amcK8FMaAFaybsqcrb40OWWYg69rwkpEzdWNAuy-afTwJK-0GUT_lf2Spz3OCjtmBWR1zTi-nJ-_9pDWGTzxpk9mGNWIylx1a4TGdocqtcDfROJSfmwNFZXW-N4e9V48ArAmvOInVzBteAB5Kles7yWf5PUT0dWwX68CCd4IyjrHWiLOGWwbFTgGiuecc_dCGki2u1lwcNFPbx16qwPXPDc_ehYseLF7zjnn_mWQ==&c=7kQbsGAuJHA3Mo_XEcIe_jwMxct0sU5zGzUch7rqqNyDGCc4_gQwQw==&ch=4ZQkw9F4LAT9jj0lxvJL94U_BLQkCDID-05YsJMTL4eRrToiZ8klNg==>

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