Tom Carper just made me LOL

Filed in National by on July 30, 2014

When I got to the last sentence I literally LOL’ed.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep federal highway money flowing to the states into December but only after rejecting the House’s reliance on what lawmakers called a funding “gimmick” and moving to force a post-election debate on whether to raise gasoline taxes.

The House could accept the Senate’s changes or reject them and send the bill back to the Senate. Whichever outcome, a highway funding bill is still expected to clear Congress before lawmakers adjourn for the summer later this week.

The Senate took up a $10.8 billion bill the House passed last week that would have kept the federal Highway Trust Fund solvent through next May and voted 66-31 to strip out controversial funding provisions, leaving $8.1 billion.

That’s enough to keep programs going only through Dec. 19. The amendment’s sponsors — Democrats Tom Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California and Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee — said they want Congress to reach a long-term funding solution this year and they hope that will be easier after the November election when partisan tempers will presumably have cooled.

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  1. Jim C. says:

    It could could happen, Carney’s been working real hard to make friends on the other side of the aisle…

  2. PluribusUnum says:

    Carper stripped it of House GOP bullshit provisions…. where’s the breathless coverage of that?

  3. Jason330 says:

    If he did, (and I’m not taking your word for it) whoop-de-fucking-doo for doing his goddam job for a change. If it isn’t begin covered by the media it is probably because he doesn’t want it spoken of for fear of injuring the delicate feelings of his GOP bros.

  4. Jason330 says:

    “Democrats Tom Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California and Republican Bob Corker of Tennessee — said they want Congress to reach a long-term funding solution this year and they hope that will be easier after the November election when partisan tempers will presumably have cooled.”

    I just giggled my ass off again. What a douche.

  5. John Manifold says:

    Carper’s right.

    (1) Highway improvements need to be paid for by taxes, not by underfunding pensions.

    (2) In a bicameral legislature, where each party controls a chamber, support from both parties is needed. It’s logical that one of the less insane Republicans and one of the least liberal Democrats be part of getting a bill done.