/substancePolitics & policyBreakling reply @ToscaAusten /substance 2026-08-17
Original · Tosca Austen
🐍🏛️✨𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Tom Cotton —or another lone Fox in the henhouse, gavels the Senate chamber in and out every three days. Leader John Thune and Senate Republicans scheduled 11 of these 15-second pro forma sessions. Eleven. No debate…
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The Senate is faking being in session. Leader Thune scheduled eleven of these 15-second pro forma sessions. no debate, no votes, no real work. just enough theater to say they're 'in session' while taking a five-week paid recess on the taxpayer's dime. They call it procedure. It looks like institutional absenteeism dressed up as rules. Meanwhile the SAVE Act got sidelined instead of a real vote, and the people paying their salaries are left waiting while Congress protects its own break.