"This is a Schumer motion to suspend the rules and refer the House message, the bill that we're on, to the Rules Committee, which doesn't have jurisdiction over appropriations or spending, and he's trying to call it a vote to fund TSA?" Thune said on the floor.

"I don't know how you come up with this. I will give you credit for coming up with something that's convoluted, but it doesn't do anything that the [Democratic] leader says it does," he added.

Schumer framed the vote as a simple "yes or no" on whether TSA agents should get funded during the shutdown.

"If senators want to pay TSA workers and end the airport chaos, they should support my motion," he said.

Thune, however, countered that Democrats on Friday voted for a fifth time to block a House-passed bill to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security, including TSA.

This is a stupid, losing battle for Democrats.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger

The dems would gladly stretch this out to midterms.
They would have people upset in order to toggle the seesaw.
Meanwhile the billionaires actually in charge are not concerned with the position of the seesaw.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

you're skirting the edge of free speech and making threats.

please continue and GO ALL THE WAY..

maybe you and Rcade can share legal expenses.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan

So here's the play - defund DHS...
#11 | Posted by Clown hack

Er, that's the democrats' play...

>Dems have voted to fund TSA 7 times.
#14 | Posted by Clown hack

thx I didn't know that!! hey tell somebody, no one else knows either!

(>Dems have voted to fund TSA 7 times. )

there were no votes, just proposal and protest. never came up for vote.
dems though are actually voting down the actual cr

If they want so badly to nut ice et al, there's a legislative path for that, instead of simple redesigning dhs on the fly illegally.

>Congress drafted bipartisan legislation to fund the TSA.

A Democrat proposed an irregular partisan proposal which was rejected along partisan lines.