Even more shameful, the Republican leadership's continued actions to
block every effort and refuse to allow Congress to debate and vote on
these wars, I believe, is an insult to the men and women in uniform,
who put their lives on the line every day to protect our country, and
to their families. Americans deserve better, and the bipartisan voices calling for
action will not be silenced, but this is just one example of regular
order being abandoned in order to advance an extreme agenda. Tomorrow, House Republicans will use another legislative trick, the
self-executing rule, to stick taxpayers with a $1.6 billion bill for
President Trump's reckless and ineffective border wall with Mexico. Now, instead of bringing that measure to the floor for an up-or-down
vote in an open process where all voices could be heard, the Republican
leadership is sticking this provision into the rule so that as soon as
the rule is approved, the measure will automatically become part of the
bill. President Trump, as you may recall, promised the American people that
he would make Mexico pay for this wall.
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