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Terrific question and here is the answer.Republicans have been blocking everything forever. How about over 300 bills all designed to grow the economy. Here are just a few that are being blocked.H.R. 1644, Save the Internet Act: 1 yea, 190 nays.H.R. 2722, SAFE Act: 1 yea, 184 nays.H.R. 582, Raise the Wage Act: 3 yeas, 192 nays.H.R. 9, Climate Action Now: 3 yeas, 190 nays.H.R. 7, Paycheck Fairness Act: 7 yeas, 187 nays.H.R. 6, American Dream and Promise Act: 7 yeas, 187 nays.H.R. 8, Bipartisan Background Checks Act: 8 yeas, 188 nays.H.R. 5, Equality Act: 8 yeas, 173 nays.H.R. 397, Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act (Butch Lewis Act): 29 yeas, 168 nays.H.R. 1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act: 33 yeas, 157 nays.In addition to Pelosi, we found about a dozen other Democrats who referred to “275 bipartisan bills,” and some of them also offered examples of major pieces of legislation that, in fact, didn’t receive much bipartisan support.For example, Rep. Dan Kildee issued a press release after the House passed the Voting Rights Advancement Act on Dec. 6 that said: “The House has sent U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) more than 275 bipartisan bills that the Senate so far has refused to take up.” The release then listed 16 pieces of legislation as examples of “bipartisan bills.”Kildee’s list included all 10 of the bills cited by Pelosi. Five of the other six measures Kildee cited as examples of “bipartisan bills” received 14 or fewer Republican votes each:H.R. 1, For the People Act: 0 yeas, 193 nays.H.J. Res 46, a privileged resolution to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration related to the U.S.-Mexico border: 14 yeas, 181 nays.H.R. 986, Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Act: 4 yeas, 183 nays.H.R. 987, Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act: 5 yeas, 183 nays.H.R. 4863, United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019: 13 yeas, 179 nays.The Voting Rights Advancement Act, which was the subject of the press release, received just one Republican vote. Only one of Kildee’s bills — H.R. 1994, SECURE Act — had clear bipartisan support, passing 417-3.REPUBLICANS SEEM TO HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN SUPPORTING EDUCATION UNLESS IT IS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (EDUCATIONAL CHOICE) or public health or anything else that is for the good of the average american.Ask Mitch why? Oh, you cannot make money on it. It isn’t corporate welfare, got it, thanks Mitch, just keep sitting on those bills and hopefully you can take your ill gotten millions with you back to retire to your mansion in Kentucky courtesy of all the deals you did for corporations for you and your wife in the shipping business.

Let’s talk about Veteran’s Day. It’s become a day which has lost it’s true meaning. It has become a day to go to to Veteran Day’s sales and spend money. It has become a day to sit at home and drink or just to waste. It’s just become another day off (if you’re a Federal employee) where nobody really knows why we celebrate.I use to go to the restaurants as most veterans do on Veteran’s Day to get my free meal from the same restaurant every year. This seems to be the only recognition a veteran gets today. But something happened and I can’t quite put my finger on what it was. I started to hear stories not just from the MSM, but also from those who I served with at my Reserve Unit in Marietta, Ga. about how veterans were being treated with disrespect from the people working in the restaurants.I myself didn’t believe this because I had never experienced anything like this, until I returned from my deployment in 2005. I stood in the line to eat at Ryan’s on Veteran’s Day 2006. I don’t really mind the hour wait because I was with Veterans who were worse off than me.When I finally got in, I was questioned by someone who appeared to be a manager about my veteran status. He even came to my table after talking to me at the door just to verify my status. Even though I didn’t need my DD-214, I usually carried it with me to any Veteran Day [celebration] just in case.Well the samething is happening this year.Chili’s Apologizes For Taking Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans DayU.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker says a manager at a local Chili’s in Cedar Hill, Texas took his food after a customer wearing a Trump shirt questioned his service.Soon after, Walker said the the restaurant’s manager approached him and said that a fellow customer said Walker was “not a real soldier because [he] had [his] hat on indoors.” He asked to see identification, and continued to question Walker. Eventually, he took his food away, even though Walker showed him his military ID and discharge paperwork.It isn’t just local restaurant’s that are showing disrespect to veterans, it is also our elected officials in Washington.Recently, the US Senate Democrats voted down the 2017 Pentagon and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs spending bills on Tuesday . . . for the third time! The bill only needed 60 'yea' votes to proceed. For Military-Construction-Veterans Affairs appropriations, the vote was 52-46, with two Republicans voting nay: Sens. Mike Lee, of Utah, and James Lankford, of Oklahoma.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, saying it was “hard to explain why, despite the array of terror attacks we've seen across the world, Senate Democrats decided to block a bill that would help keep the American people safer from threats like ISIL.”I don’t know why McConnell is so concerned now? He and Senator Tom Coburn killed the Homeless Women Veterans and Homeless Veterans With Children Act (2010) when it was first introduced. But this isn’t the first time in recent history that Veterans have been screwed.Veterans Affairs Funding Bill (2015)The House Appropriations Subcommittee, met with VA Secretary Bob McDonald to remove more than $1.4 billion in veteran services from President Obama’s proposed 2016 budget. As a result of the cuts, it was estimated that 70,000 fewer veterans would be able to receive needed care.Women Veterans and Families Health Services Act (2014)This bipartisan bill would have provided fertility treatment and counseling for severely wounded veterans and their spouses. However, the bill was killed before making it out of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee after Republicans proposed an amendment to prevent any involvement with Planned Parenthood.Veterans Health and Benefits and Military Retirement Pay Restoration Act (2014)This bill, proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders, was a piece of sweeping legislation that would have expanded healthcare and education for veterans. After clearing a procedural vote by a 99-0 margin, the bill was hijacked by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans who attached an amendment to the bill which would have levied sanctions on Iran.It was ultimately defeated with 41 of 45 Senate Republicans voting against the bill.Veterans Jobs Corps Act (2012)Originally submitted by democratic Representative Bruce Braley of Iowa, this bill would have established the Veteran’s Jobs Corps to provide gainful employment to more than 20,000 veterans through public works projects in their own communities at a cost of $1 billion over 5 years.Ultimately, Senate Republicans blocked the bill because it was unpaid for… while simultaneously proposing a bill to increase military spending with no way to pay for it.Let’s hope that the new administration shows some well earned respect to our veterans.

Well, I think there has always been a migration of belief in political thought. Some traditionally conservative ideas were once held by Democrats and some traditionally liberal ideas were once held by Republicans. However, the switch you are probably thinking of started with efforts towards desegregation. The Democratic party had a faction called the Dixiecrats (circa 1948), southern democrats who were pro-segregation, that attempted to preserve “states rights” (can anybody hear echoes of the civil war here?) by putting obstacles up to federal rulings on desegregation, saying that states should be allowed to decide. A party unit initiative leading into the 1952 Democratic National Convention along with the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 took some of the wind out of their sails but it would only be another decade or so before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would push those Southern Democrats to essentially abandon the Democratic Party and shift their allegiance to the Republican Party. Lyndon Johnson was President though it was JFK’s landmark bill in the works before he was assassinated.Look at the voting tally’s for the Civil Rights Act to give you some perspective (taken from Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia).Vote totalsTotals are in "Yea–Nay" format:The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).By partyThe original House version:Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)Cloture in the Senate:Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)The Senate version:Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)The Senate version, voted on by the House:Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)By party and regionNote: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.The original House version:Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)The Senate version:Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) * (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)* Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) (John Tower of Texas)* Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)* Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)It would difficult to say this was a hard shift. There were still people that stayed in the Republican Party that had the same ideology before as after the shift and there were people in the Democratic Party that had the same ideology after the shift. But the ideological lines had been drawn around race in this country and, with all do respect to the Republicans, they absorbed most of the racists because of it.