John Bickley
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And so you've got Trump derangement syndrome on full display among Democrats in the country today. But you look at even the things that they blocked, they used the filibuster, which interestingly enough, they were really ready to get rid of. If they had gotten the majority, they were gonna get rid of it in a New York minute.
They use it to block a vote, even getting a vote on preventing biological males from competing against girls and girls sports. I mean, they literally didn't even allow us to get on that bill. They blocked through the use of the filibuster legislation that would have ensured that babies born after a botched abortion would be protected under the laws of this country.
They use it to block a vote, even getting a vote on preventing biological males from competing against girls and girls sports. I mean, they literally didn't even allow us to get on that bill. They blocked through the use of the filibuster legislation that would have ensured that babies born after a botched abortion would be protected under the laws of this country.
I mean, that's how far out of the mainstream and how far out of step they are with, I think, core American values. And that's why I think the president was so successful. And I think, again, it's a basic level of common sense. I had a professor in business school at the University of South Dakota used to say, there are certain things that are just intuitively obvious.
I mean, that's how far out of the mainstream and how far out of step they are with, I think, core American values. And that's why I think the president was so successful. And I think, again, it's a basic level of common sense. I had a professor in business school at the University of South Dakota used to say, there are certain things that are just intuitively obvious.
And some of these things are intuitively obvious, and the Democrats can't seem to acknowledge that. So Lincoln-Riley, we did get cooperation. There were some Democrats who voted for it.
And some of these things are intuitively obvious, and the Democrats can't seem to acknowledge that. So Lincoln-Riley, we did get cooperation. There were some Democrats who voted for it.
And that was at least something where I think they recognized they were so far out of step that they actually realized that they needed to put up a vote that actually recognized that people who'd been harmed in this country by illegal immigrants, that those people needed to be prosecuted under the laws of this country.
And that was at least something where I think they recognized they were so far out of step that they actually realized that they needed to put up a vote that actually recognized that people who'd been harmed in this country by illegal immigrants, that those people needed to be prosecuted under the laws of this country.
We have under the there was a law passed by Congress back in the 1990s called the Congressional Review Act. It enables Congress to repeal, if you will, regulations. put into place by the executive branch of the government by a vote in the House and the Senate. It obviously has to be signed into law by the president. So what happened is there's what they call a look-back period.
We have under the there was a law passed by Congress back in the 1990s called the Congressional Review Act. It enables Congress to repeal, if you will, regulations. put into place by the executive branch of the government by a vote in the House and the Senate. It obviously has to be signed into law by the president. So what happened is there's what they call a look-back period.
And so these regulations that were put in place by the Biden administration and that are eligible for this procedure, we have looked at a whole bunch of them, House and Senate, and we are in a systematic way, just going in and repealing a lot of these crazy regulations. And so we've done several of those already in the Senate.
And so these regulations that were put in place by the Biden administration and that are eligible for this procedure, we have looked at a whole bunch of them, House and Senate, and we are in a systematic way, just going in and repealing a lot of these crazy regulations. And so we've done several of those already in the Senate.
The House is voting on more this week, and we're going to vote on two to three. We'll finish three of those this week too. So a lot of them are just part of the Biden administration's proposal to do away with conventional energy production. They're part of the whole Green New Deal initiative, but they all have a cost to our economy and a cost to the American people.
The House is voting on more this week, and we're going to vote on two to three. We'll finish three of those this week too. So a lot of them are just part of the Biden administration's proposal to do away with conventional energy production. They're part of the whole Green New Deal initiative, but they all have a cost to our economy and a cost to the American people.
And so our view is if they're eligible for this particular legislative procedure, we're going to do everything we can to get rid of them because they are costing consumers in this country more, they create more inflation for people in this country, and they make it more expensive and harder to do business in America.
And so our view is if they're eligible for this particular legislative procedure, we're going to do everything we can to get rid of them because they are costing consumers in this country more, they create more inflation for people in this country, and they make it more expensive and harder to do business in America.
I think the president, just by virtue of changes in leadership in a lot of those departments and agencies, is accomplishing that objective. And obviously, we've helped him get the right people into those positions that he wants. wanted to see filling those positions. And so we're, that's a part of it. I think a big part of it's on him.
I think the president, just by virtue of changes in leadership in a lot of those departments and agencies, is accomplishing that objective. And obviously, we've helped him get the right people into those positions that he wants. wanted to see filling those positions. And so we're, that's a part of it. I think a big part of it's on him.
And I think a part of it is too, just us fulfilling our role constitutionally to confirm the people that he wants in those key positions. I mean, we're always gonna be looking, you know, Congress has an oversight role over all these departments and agencies. And, you know, it's up to us to have oversight hearings to examine how these agencies are implementing the policies or whether they are.