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righteous » 19 Dec 2024, 8:20 pm » wrote: ↑

19 Dec 2024, 8:20 pm

• Members of Congress would be allowed their first pay raise since 2009
• A provision that allows lawmakers to opt out of Obamacare and use the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program instead
• Language on transparency in concert ticket pricing
• The federal government paying the entire bill to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge
• Accountability for recycling and composting fraud
• A Feral Swine Eradication program
• A continuation of the “Wool Trust Fund” until 2025
• Paying for juvenile delinquents to get their driver’s license
• No longer calling homeless adults and children “homeless”
• Extending a “sheep marketing grant program” until 2025
• The Global Engagement Center, the State Department’s office dedicated to censorship, will get another year of funding
• Spending $3 million dollars to test the inspection of molasses

These provisions and more have many House Republicans extremely frustrated with GOP leadership.

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