PHILADELPHIA ― If Congress is broken, as some critics and lawmakers believe, a major problem is that lawmakers no longer pass regular appropriations bills. They said they would do their damnedest to get all 12 appropriations bills passed. Soon, Ryan was clamping down on the open appropriations process, which allows members to offer an amendment on any issue related to the bill, but the appropriations bills stopped anyway. Leaders seem to want to avoid an internal fight among their own members over passing appropriations bills with conservative provisions. Now that Trump is president, leaders don’t seem to want Republicans to have the power to legislate on individual bills.

Source: Huffington Post January 26, 2017 17:30 UTC