i must have missed that add in the help wanted section of the paper....
read this....
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-block-senate-gop-bill-on-infants-surviving-abortions
democrats didn't pass any bill....republicans presented a bill they knew was doomed to failure, and was pointless, as laws already existed to stop these thing ..the entire thing was a republican ploy to influence the simple minded.....
Republicans use them to kill people...knock it off and they might back off a little...
The $400 million was Iran's to start with, placed into a US-based trust fund to support American military equipment purchases in the 1970s. When the Shah was ousted by a 1979 popular uprising that led to the creation of the Islamic Republic, the US froze the trust fund. Iran has been fighting for a return of the funds through international courts since 1981.
whether the deals politicians make are good or not, they're made...do we want to start comparing the size of fuckups either party has made for the past 30 or 40 years?