Call an Emergency Session Now. Keep Every Republican in Their Seat Until January 3

Where the hell is the urgency? Republicans sat on their hands when they had time to act.

This typcial inaction is why the GOP took such a beating election day.

Call an emergency session now. Every Republican in the House and Senate should be in their seat, ready to vote, through January 3. Cancel the recesses. Work through the holidays. If it takes midnight votes and Sunday sessions, so be it. Every hour they spend jockeying for leadership posts is an hour they could spend doing the jobs voters sent them to Washington to do. Confirm Trump’s judges. Write his border security policies into law. Pass the spending cuts. Put every last piece of unfinished business on the floor and make them vote. Republicans had months to get this done and sat on their hands. Now every damn second counts. If they run out the clock while they still hold the gavel, they’ll have spent their last days in power making excuses for why they never used it.

Save the damn country.

Democrats will be merciless. Give them the votes and they’ll push to pack the Supreme Court, abolish the Electoral College, and make D.C. and Puerto Rico states and bring in millions more illegals (Democrat voters.) They’re willing to shred constitutional safeguards to entrench their power. And Republicans are still acting like they have time to spare.

Florida Senator Rick Scott was one of a number of leaders pressing his colleagues: I believe we must use every available moment of time remaining in the 119^th Congress to deliver for the American people. We ought to stay in session every day, 24 hours per day with a relentless focus on creating jobs , lowering prices, attacking government corruption and holding Washington accountable until we achieve our goals, including: • Confirming every nominee President Trump has sent to the Senate – prioritizing Lifetime judicial appointments (Desiderio).

Scott’s list goes on. The Wall Street Journal makes a similar argument, echoing the need to get judges through: Democrats will block any Supreme Court and nearly all appellate court nominees come January. Three judges are awaiting a Senate floor vote, and 18 district judges and two appellate nominees are pending in committee. Those for the Fifth and Eighth appellate courts are especially important. Confirm them all (Wall Street Journal).

President Trump: Very important for the U.S. Senate to confirm all of our pending 161 Nominations, including 25 Federal Judges. Thank you for your attention to this matter! (Truth).

House Freedom Caucus Presses Their Own Agenda for Lame Duck Session

The Freedom Caucus knows the window is closing quickly on the ability to get anything done. The list the Freedom Caucus is pressing starts with a reconciliation package, goes on to border security legislation (Johnson).

The Hill: The caucus wrote in their letter that there is “an enormous amount of unfinished business to preserve and protect the Republic from an incoming majority party hell-bent on radically changing it.” “We must deny them every legislative leverage point possible,” the caucus wrote. The caucus is calling for a reconciliation package that includes defense modernization, tax relief for families and at least $1 trillion in spending cuts. Other priorities outlined in the letter include codifying President Trump’s border security policies, imposing congressional term limits, banning stock trading by lawmakers and confirming “as many Presidential nominees as possible” in the Senate. Lawmakers are in session for only five more weeks until the new Congress takes over in January. The next few weeks are already consumed by leadership elections across both chambers. Passing another reconciliation bill will also be a heavy lift (The Hill).