Put the Screws to Them

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Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Svinicki Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Limitation
• House: Immigration Law Enforcement Compliance
• House: Criminal Undocumented Immigrants Sentencing Guidelines

The House and Senate are not doing legislative business in their respective chambers  this week.

Lazy pricks, they don't do their job, don't accomplish things they promise to accomplish and constituents be damned, we're going home.

Recent Senate Votes:

Svinicki Nomination - Confirmation, Vote Confirmed (88-9, 3 Not Voting)

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Kristine L. Svinicki to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Sen. Johnny Isakson voted Not Voting

Sen. David Perdue voted YES

A nuke engineer, University of Michigan, has served the last two Presidents. Engineers are awsome.

Recent House Votes:

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Limitation, Vote Passed (218-210, 6 Not Voting)

The House passed a bill that would limit to $250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs first.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

Sounds like a convoluted description to me. All the Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against the law. 

Republicans passed the bill with few votes to spare in a 218-210 roll call vote. A total of 19 GOP lawmakers from both the centrist and most conservative wings of the party voted against the bill, as did all House Democrats. A surprising move by a bunch of lawyers, its all moot anyway, a bill passing this narrowly in the House has no chance in the Senate.  All that said, it is time to start weighing the true impact of lawsuits on real costs  and avoidance costs and weight that against the right to redress. The whole is being punished for the rights of the minority.

Immigration Law Enforcement Compliance, Vote Passed (228-195, 10 Not Voting)

The House passed a measure that would prohibit federal, state and local governments from restricting any federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with immigration laws or from assisting federal law enforcement entities or officials in their enforcement of such laws.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

Also known as Kate's Law.

Explain it to me like I am 5 years old, the Democrats with near near unanimity voted against enforcement of current laws?

The Senate refused to pass an earlier version of this bill in 2016, watch it die in the Senate. In my research of the passage of this bill, found where NBC claimed that here is "scant evidence" of correlation between repeats offenses and subsequent criminal behavior. This belies the reality, these illegal aliens being targeted are being caught breaking laws, repeatedly. The argument  that the law is unfair because targets the hardworking undocumented workers, is an unrelated red herring. The law is about putting the screws to illegal aliens that run afoul of law enforcement.

Criminal Undocumented Immigrants Sentencing Guidelines Vote Passed (257-167, 9 Not Voting)

The House passed legislation that would establish specific possible fines and prison sentences for undocumented immigrants convicted of certain criminal offenses and who illegally return to the United States despite having been previously deported or otherwise excluded from the country.

Rep. David Scott voted NO

You are getting all of these votes wrong Mr. Scott. The prison sentences for repeat offender should be mandatory, and include forced labor. The purpose of prison should be to deter recidivism.

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