#Omnibus Bill

[amtrak-official]

Why does the DOD get over a trillion dollars in the omnibus when it is a glorified money laundering scheme which has the added benefit of systemically disenfranchising minorities while trapping them in cycles of poverty when that money could be put to actual good like prison reform,voting rights, and building a high speed rail network.

#omnibus #omnibus bill #us politics #social justice #all in all it is a good bill just wish the military didn’t get such a large payout #also yeah AOC definitely still should have voted for it

[meandmybigmouth]

THE RICH NOT GETTING THEIR FAIR SHARE?

#congress #republicans #omnibus bill #jim mcgovern #clay higgins

[bighermie]

#gun control #guns #omnibus bill #second amendment

[roboe1]

In The News Today.12/21/2022.

US News, Politics, World News, Commentary/Opinion and Video Post. US. News: Texas National Guard ‘Border Force’ Blocking Illegal Crossings Illegal immigrants cross the razor fence placed by elements of the Texas National Guard on the banks of the Rio Grande, in El Paso, Texas, border with Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Dec. 20, 2022. (Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty…

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#Commentary/Opinion #Convention of States #Dr. John Campbell #Economy #Free Speech/Censorship #Hunter Biden #In the News #Omnibus Bill #Politics #Spending Bill #Tech Watch #Twitter #Ukraine #US News #Vaccines #Video post #World News

[minnesotafollower]

Congress Fails To Adopt Important Immigration Legislation

Congress Fails To Adopt Important Immigration Legislation

Previous posts documented Congress’ earlier failure this Session to adopt (a) the Afghan Adjustment Act to improve the legal status of Afghan evacuees in the U.S. and (b) important bipartisan immigration reform, one of which was offered by Senators Kyrsten Sinema (ex-Democrat & now Independent) and Thom Tillis (Rep., NC) that would have addressed the legal fate of so-called Dreamers and provided…

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#Afghan Adjustment Act #Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) #Greisa Martinez Rosas #Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas #Omnibus Bill #President Joe Biden #Title 42 #Trump Administration #U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts #U.S. Department of Homeland Security #U.S. Justice Amy Barett #U.S. Justice Bret Kavanaugh #U.S. Justice Clarence Thomas #U.S. Justice Elena Kagan #U.S. JUstice Ketanji Jackson #U.S. Justice Neal Gorsuch #U.S. Justice Samuel Alito #U.S. Justice Sonia Sotomayor #U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema #U.S. Senator Mike Lee #U.S. Senator Tester #U.S. Senator Thom tillis #United We Dream #Wall Street Journal #White House Press SecretaryKarine Jean-Pierre

[nfcomics]

BATMAN NO MANS LAND OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 • cover art • Bill Sienkiewicz [Sept 2022]

Months after a massive earthquake cut off Gotham City from the rest of the United States, Batman and his allies are still struggling to maintain law and order. When an unlikely savior arrives offering to help rebuild Gotham, their assistance might come at a grave cost.

The epic conclusion to Gotham’s darkest hour includes all of the crossover issues from one of the biggest story events in DC Comics history.

Contains: Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight no.122-126; Azrael: Agent of the Bat no.58-61; Batman no.569-574; Batman: Shadow of the Bat no.89-94; Detective Comics no.736-741; Catwoman no.75-77; Robin no.68-73; The Batman Chronicles no18; Nightwing no.38-39; Batman No Man's Land no.0; Batman: No Man's Land Secret Files no.1

Written by Chuck Dixon, Greg Rucka, Dennis O'Neil, and others Art by Dale Eaglesham, Scott McDaniel, and others (W) Various (A) Various (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz

#BATMAN NO MANS LAND OMNIBUS HC VOL 02 #Bill Sienkiewicz #Batman #Chuck Dixon #Greg Rucka #Dennis O'Neil #Dale Eaglesham #Scott McDaniel #Legends of the Dark Knight #Azrael: Agent of the Bat #Batman: Shadow of the Bat #Detective Comics #Batman Detective Comics #Catwoman #Robin #The Batman Chronicles #Nightwing #Batman No Man's Land #Batman: No Man's Land Secret Files

[emperornihilus44]

#Batman #batman comics #golden age comics #bob kane #bill finger #1930s #1930s comics #1940s #1940s comics #omnibus #books #hardcover #dc comics #comic books

[omniversecomicsguide]

The link between the Skrulls and the Dire Wraiths is revealed in the build-up to WRAITH WAR (1984-1985) This classic Rom event has been added to the Omniverse Comics Guide! The Avengers, X-Men, Hulk Fantastic Four and more join the Spaceknight from Galador in the final battle against the body-snatching aliens…

MORE: Wraith War

The OCG has…

• The reading order

• The issue-by-issue synopsis

• Key covers

• Fallout - what to read next

• Key Collected Editions

Featured Art:

ROM #50 (1984)

by Mike Zeck

#wraith #wraith war #Rom #rom spaceknight #Rom omnibus #mike zeck #bill manto #marvel comics #Omniverse comics guide

[smashpages]

Now the Micronauts are getting an omnibus, too

Following this week’s Rom announcement, Marvel announces plans to collect stories featuring the team that ‘came from inner space.’

cover by Dave Cockrum/Al Milgrom

#dave cockrum #micronauts #marvel #marvel omnibus #bill mantlo #comics #al milgrom #bug #commander rann #marionette #acroyear #baron karza

[amtrak-official]

Okay so I got bored and started reading through the omnibus bill, and we are getting funded, baby!!

If you want to read the legalese look below

Basically what this is saying is corporate bootlicking Pete can dispense money to the FRA and passenger rail services as he please with a budget of 250 million. This also goes in to detail on 535 million being directly invested into rail expansion and development. Additionally a billion dollars are directly going to amtrak as a result of the bill for the northeast corridor improvements and 50 million are going directly to amtrak. Also Amtrak can't change any route scheduling or remove any routes.

#trains #amtrak #us politics #omnibus bill #god why did I read through this

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

"Republicans stop fantasizing about the Biden family's package size" challenge...

#us politics #memes #shitpost #president joe biden #biden administration #president barack obama #infrastructure bill #omnibus spending bill #federal budget #2023 #gop #conservatives #republicans #conservatives be like #republicans be like #hunter biden's laptop #hunter biden

[graphicpolicy]

Rom's Marvel Years continues in a Second Omnibus

Rom's Marvel Years continues in a Second Omnibus #comics #comicbooks

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#bill mantlo #bill sienkiewicz #bob hall #greg larocque #mark gruenwald #marvel #mike zeck #omnibus #pat broderick #rom #sal buscema #steven grant

[ohfugecannada]

I really wanted to do a deep dive into how unhinged the very first Rocket Racoon miniseries by Bill Mantlo and Mike Mignola was, but I’ll just let the first 4 pages speak for themselves;

#marvel #rocket racoon #gotg rocket #comics #mike mignola #bill mantlo #guardian of the keystone quadrant #1980s comics #1980s #comics out of context #out of context comic panels #I have fond memories of picking up this omnibus pocket book at a comic shop in 2014 #it’s so delightfully nuts and it took me a very long time to realise it was probably on purpose #Mantlo and mignola took an already ridiculous chracter and gave him the most ridiculous and unhinged lore imaginable #and also made the art go hard for no reason

[geekcavepodcast]

“Micronauts” Get New Omnibus Collection

Marvel Comics is reprinting the entire comics run of Micronauts. Micronauts: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 1 will collect Micronauts (1979) #1-29, and Annual (1979) #1-2, as well as material from Micronauts Special Edition (1983) #1-5. The comics have been restored and the collection will also include the letters pages and bonus material like house ads, original artwork, and more. The Micronauts comics were written by Bill Mantlo with artwork by Michael Golden. Other artist featured in the Omnibus are Howard Chaykin & Pat Broderick with Steve Ditko & Rich Buckler.

“In Micronauts, Commander Rann, Princess Mari, Biotron, Acroyear and Bug traverse the universe aboard the microship Endeavor as they struggle to free Homeworld from the tyrannical Baron Karza. Their exploits also bring them to Earth where our micro-sized heroes encounter big-time heroes and villains including the Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom, S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain Universe and Man-Thing.” (Marvel Comics)

Micronauts: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Vol. 1 goes on sale in April 2024. The Omnibus features a main cover by Dave Cockrum and direct market exclusive variant covers by Steve Ditko, Butch Guice, and Michael Golden.

 In addition to the Omnibus, Marvel will also sell a new Facsimile Edition of Micronauts #1, cover by Dave Cockrum, in September 2023.

#micronauts #micronauts omnibus #micronauts original marvel years omnibus #bill mantlo #michael golden #dave cockrum #howard chaykin #pat broderick #steve ditko #rich buckler #butch guice #marvel comics #hasbro #TGCLiz

[govtshutdown]

Still awaiting President Biden’s signature, so here’s more about the bill from a different source.

#H.R. 2617 #omnibus spending bill #Consolidated Appropriations Act #FY2023 #federal government funding #four days left #$1.7 trillion #takeaways #GovExec #Government Shutdown?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 23, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

Today, by a vote of 225 to 201, the House passed the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill necessary to fund the government through September 30, 2023. The Senate passed it yesterday by a bipartisan vote of 68–29, and President Joe Biden has said he will sign it as soon as it gets to his desk. The measure establishes nondefense discretionary spending at about $773 billion, an increase of about $68 billion, or 6%. It increases defense spending to $858 billion, an increase of about 10%. Defense funding is about $45 billion more than Biden had requested, reflecting the depletion of military stores in Ukraine, where the largest European war since World War II is raging, and the recognition of a military buildup with growing tensions between the U.S. and China. Senators Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) and Richard C. Shelby (R-AL) and Representative Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) hammered out the bill over months of negotiations. Leahy and Shelby are the two most senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and both are retiring at the end of this session. Shelby told the Senate: “We know it’s not perfect, but it’s got a lot of good stuff in it.” House Republicans refused to participate in the negotiations, tipping their hand to just how disorganized they are right now. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) insisted that the measure should wait until the Republicans take control of the House in 11 days. This reflects the determination of far-right extremists in the party to hold government funding hostage in order to get concessions from the Democrats. But their positions are so extreme that most Republicans wanted to get the deal done before they could gum it up. Indeed, right now they are refusing to back Republican minority leader McCarthy for speaker, forcing him to more and more extreme positions to woo them. Earlier this week, McCarthy publicly claimed that if he becomes House speaker, he will reject any bill proposed by a senator who voted yes on the omnibus bill. After the measure passed the House, McCarthy spoke forcefully against it, prompting Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) to say: “After listening to that, it’s clear he doesn’t have the votes yet.” The measure invests in education, childcare, and healthcare, giving boosts to the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and investing in mental health programs. It addresses the opioid crisis and invests in food security programs and in housing and heating assistance programs. It invests in the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service and makes a historic investment in the National Science Foundation. It raises the pay for members of the armed forces, and it invests in state and local law enforcement. It will also provide supplemental funding of about $45 billion for Ukraine aid and $41 billion for disaster relief. It reforms the Electoral Count Act to prevent a plan like that hatched by former president Donald Trump and his cronies to overturn an election, and it funds prosecutions stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “A lot of hard work, a lot of compromise,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, (D-NY) said. “But we funded the government with an aggressive investment in American families, American workers, American national defense.” Schumer called the bill “one of the most significant appropriations packages we've done in a really long time.” And so, members of Congress are on their way home, in the nation’s severe winter storm, for the winter holiday. It is a fitting day for the congress members to go home, some to come back in January, others to leave their seats in Congress to their successors. On this day in December 1783, General George Washington stood in front of the Confederation Congress, meeting at the senate chamber of the Maryland State House, to resign his wartime commission. Negotiators had signed the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War on September 3, 1783, and once the British troops had withdrawn from New York City, Washington believed his job was done. “The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place; I have now the honor of offering my sincere Congratulation s to Congress and of presenting myself before them to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the Service of my Country,” he told the members of Congress. “Happy in the confirmation of our Independence and Sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity afforded the United States of becoming a respectable Nation, I resign with satisfaction the Appointment I accepted with diffidence.” “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.” In 1817, given the choice of subjects to paint for the rotunda in the U.S. Capitol, being rebuilt after the British had burned it during the War of 1812, fine artist John Trumbull picked the moment of Washington’s resignation. As they discussed the project, he told President James Madison: “I have thought that one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world, was that presented by the conduct of the commander-in-chief, in resigning his power and commission as he did, when the army, perhaps, would have been unanimously with him, and few of the people disposed to resist his retaining the power which he had used with such happy success, and such irreproachable moderation.” Madison agreed, and the painting of a man voluntarily giving up power hangs today in the U.S. Capitol, in the Rotunda. It hung there over the January 6 rioters as they tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and put in place their candidate, who insisted he should remain in power despite the will of the American people. Yesterday’s release of the report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol reviewed the material the committee has already explained, but it did have a number of revelations. One is that former president Trump was not simply the general instigator of the Big Lie that he had won the election, and the person egging on his violent supporters, but also that he was the prime instigator of the attempt to file false slates of electors. This puts him at the heart of the attempt to defraud the U.S. government and to interfere with an official proceeding. On page 346, the report says: “The evidence indicates that by December 7th or 8th, President Trump had decided to pursue the fake elector plan and was driving it.” In that effort, he had the help of Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, even after White House lawyers had called the plan illegal and had backed away from it. Committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS)’s introduction to the report put Trump’s effort in the larger context of a history that reaches all the way back to the American Revolution. “Our country has come too far to allow a defeated President to turn himself into a successful tyrant by upending our democratic institutions, fomenting violence, and…opening the door to those in our country whose hatred and bigotry threaten equality and justice for all Americans.” “We can never surrender to democracy’s enemies. We can never allow America to be defined by forces of division and hatred. We can never go backward in the progress we have made through the sacrifice and dedication of true patriots. We can never and will never relent in our pursuit of a more perfect union with liberty and justice for all Americans.”

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Notes:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/18/us/politics/defense-contractors-ukraine-russia.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/12/22/omnibus-bill-senate/

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HIGHLIGHTS%20DOCUMENT%20FY%2023.pdf

Ed Markey @SenMarkeyI was proud to vote for this package, but I won't stop fighting for bold, progressive legislation that reigns in the greed of Big Oil and Big Tech and ensures we create an economy that works for all.

8:58 PM ∙ Dec 23, 202280Likes5Retweets

https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/12/house-approves-omnibus-spending-bill-funding-agencies-through-september/381282/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mccarthy-makes-impossible-promises-as-he-scrambles-to-shore-up-conservative-votes

Connor O'Brien @connorobrienNHAfter McCarthy’s speech railing against the omnibus, Jim McGovern rolls his eyes and says: “After listening to that, it’s clear he doesn’t have the votes yet.”

4:48 PM ∙ Dec 23, 20223,304Likes407Retweets

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/23/us/january-6-committee-final-report.html#page-367

John Trumbull, Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters of J. Trumbull, from 1756 to 1841, p. 263, at https://archive.org/details/autobiographyre01trumgoog/page/262/mode/2up

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-06-02-0319-0004

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/january-6-committee-final-report/2095325cbebd8378/full.pdf

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1700s/General-George-Washington-resigning-his-commission-in-Annapolis,-Maryland/

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#History #George Washington #Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #US House of Representatives #US Senate #Omnibus Spending Bill