Is sanity making a comeback?
A bill preventing transgender women from competing in female sports at schools across the country narrowly cleared the House of Representatives Tuesday.
Just two Democrats joined with 216 Republicans in voting for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which states that schools receiving federal funds would violate the law if they "permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls."
All 206 "nay" votes came from Democrats. Rep. Don Davis (D-NC) voted "present" while a pair of Texans, Henry Cuellar and Vincente Gonzalez bucked party lines to back the bill.
"Common sense is back in charge," the bill's co-sponsor, Rep Greg Steube (R-Fla.) declared on X ahead of its passage. "With a soon-to-be Republican trifecta, my bill reflects a mandate from the American people: no men in women's sports."
Manhattan Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and other Dems denounced the measure as a "cruel attack on transgender children" -- with Nadler even suggesting that the measure could allow authorities to subject biological women to "genital examination."
Right, like 1, you can't just tell women from men by sight and 2, even if you had some questions, you couldn't just look back at past academic records and discover that "Oleander Unicorn" used to be named "Timothy."
Democrats are absolutely insane in pushing the tranny lie that "there's just no way to tell men from women" so we might as well Respecc Pronouns.
The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, like other legislation the House has taken up early in the 119th Congress, was approved along party lines by the lower chamber in the 118th Congress, only to languish in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The GOP is hopeful that the measure will pass the Republican-controlled Senate and head to President-elect Donald Trump's desk after he takes office next week. However, the bill requires 60 votes to clear a filibuster.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a former college football coach, has introduced a Senate version of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act that is co-sponsored by almost three dozen of his GOP colleagues.
Obviously Murkowski and Susan Collins and maybe that jerkoff from Lousiana, Cassidy, might vote against it. They'll claim they're just being "libertarian" and keeping government out of these matters.
As you may have heard, the Senate voted for cloture for the Laken Riley act overwhelmingly. The soon-to-be-law requires immigration officials to detain illegal alien criminals.
The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires immigration officials to detain illegal migrants who engage in theft, shoplifting and related crimes.
Lawmakers voted 82-10 to consider the measure, with dozens of Democrats joining Republicans in approval.
"The bipartisan Laken Riley Act would not only address glaring holes in our immigration policy, but it would hopefully prevent other families from suffering the pain that Laken Riley's has suffered," Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said.
Once it became clear the bill couldn't be stopped, Democrats rushed to support it so it couldn't be used against them in a campaign. (Spoiler: It will be used anyway. You all blocked it for a year.)
The GOP-controlled House passed a similar bill last year, but it was never taken up by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Now that Republicans have the upper chamber, they are hoping to wrangle it through as a ready-to-sign measure when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.
This was the cloture vote, meaning that debate on it has been closed and it can now be voted for actual passage. Democrats were trying to filibuster it, but when they realized they didn't have the numbers to stop it, most of them voted to stop the filibuster.
Courageous heroes, all of them!