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Originally Posted by
Vacuum7
Parnas is a disgruntled associate of Rudy? There is something about being up for felony charges that makes you start making stories up....and digging your hole deeper: PARNAS IS A JOKE! Did you know Parnas is one of the turd's that helped fabricate the Steele Dossier? He is also tied in with Hillary Clinton: The Demos keep finding scum and trying to make them into something nice: YOU CAN'T POLISH A TURD AND MAKE IT ANYTHING OTHER THAN A TURD!
Nothing like getting caught doing dirt to make you sing like a bird and that's just the way criminal and criminal enterprises work Vac. You can't catch a turd without using a turd can you?
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Originally Posted by
jlisenbe
Why didn't the House do that? Wasn't that their job?
I'll make it simple for you. The dufus is using every trick in the book to keep people from knowing the truth about his antics and is covering up bad behavior hiding behind the law, courts take time, and with holding evidence using executive privilege which is illegal when wrongdoing is suspected and thus we have a charge of obstructing the congress.
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As to the Impound Act, you might have a legitimate gripe there, but I imagine that it is routinely violated and has been for years by other presidents. If that is true, then are you suggesting we prosecute all of them?
And your evidence for that is what? You are assuming facts NOT in evidence.
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BTW, there is a counter argument about Trump's violating that act. "The funds were a special appropriation, not a budget line item. Congress is working on a continual string of appropriations bills and continuing resolutions, rather than passing a budget as they’re supposed to.
I think the impound act covers ALL appropriations by the congress and signed into law by the president.
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By The Impoundment Act of 1974 ( more properly, Article X of The Budget Act of 1974) the President may hold funds (impound them) for up to 45 days to ask Congress to rescind an appropriation. Since Congress has always ignored such requests, and never honored one - the practice has become to impound for not more than 45 days, then release.
Here's the timeline, so lets actually count the days.
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Sept. 11: The hold is lifted on the Ukraine assistance, 85 days after the Pentagon announced that aid had become available. That leaves only 19 days to obligate that funding. Sept. 30: End of the fiscal year. According to OMB's Sandy, $35 million in funds do not get spent in time to meet the deadline. Congress includes that same amount in a continuing resolution to ensure the aid reaches Ukraine.
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The President didn’t violate the letter or spirit of either the non-existent budget nor the appropriation nor the Bufget Act of ‘74, Article X.
That's what the impeachment trial is all about!
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He says he impounded the funds over concern that other European countries were doing more to help Ukraine. I suppose one would have to examine the evidence that any other country did anything more than they would’ve otherwise in order to see if the President was effective at his stated purpose."
https://www.quora.com/Did-President-...s-from-Ukraine
You mean it took him several months to get those documented facts that are public records? Really? Sounds like a dodge, an excuse to justify HIS actions and why ignore his asking for a PERSONAL favor, get dirt on his political opponents and clear Vlad of meddling with the 2016 election by blaming the Ukraine. Man that's some favor.
At least we are arguing facts and not just throwing rocks and talking trash.
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Originally Posted by
tomder55
basically it is a classic bill Congress passes when they decide to abrogate their constitutional mandate until it is convenient for them to assume their defined role. Think the war power's act .
Thank Nixon for the need of congress to CTOA!