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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: edpc on March 06, 2019, 09:32:53 pm

Title: GOP could face emergency vote every 6 months
Post by: edpc on March 06, 2019, 09:32:53 pm

President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration on the border will come to a head on the Senate floor next week. And potentially six months after that. And six months after that.

And as the first vote approaches, there are signs the president is getting increasingly interested in the final tally, though he still faces an uphill battle to fending off a bipartisan rebuke.

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The Act, which became law in 1976, states “not later than six months after a national emergency is declared, and not later than the end of each six-month period there- after that such emergency continues, each House of Congress shall meet to consider a vote on a concurrent resolution to determine whether that emergency shall be terminated.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/trump-national-emergency-1207473 (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/trump-national-emergency-1207473)

Title: Re: GOP could face emergency vote every 6 months
Post by: Cyber Liberty on March 06, 2019, 10:22:25 pm

Rule of thumb for what's "permitted" to be an "emergency":  Protecting the borders of Yemen is OK (that order has been in place since, I believe, 2012), Restricting trade to Syria is OK, Protecting the borders of the United States is not OK.

Title: Re: GOP could face emergency vote every 6 months
Post by: corbe on March 06, 2019, 10:48:27 pm

   FTA:

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One Republican senator considering how to vote said the White House is beginning to engage on the effort after standing by for several weeks. This senator received a call from a top White House official on Wednesday urging a vote for the president’s position; the senator said “a lot of people are praying” they don’t have to take the vote and defy the president.

“Why make people walk the plank?” The senator mused.

   Is that you, Sen. Cruz?