115th Congressional Dumpster Fire

The purpose of this page will be to compile Fark threads dealing with the dumpster fire that is the 115th U.S. Congress.

=Background= This section will provide background information about the members of the 115th U.S. Congress, or their party affiliation, etc. any information to give a basic overview of the 115th U.S. Congress that does not necessarily need a Fark-related thread.


 * date first called into session: January 3, 2017
 * date Americans can first expect relief: January 3, 2019
 * to read about all the legislative crap they're up to click here, for outstanding individual achievements in assholery, click here, for "investigations" click here and for confirmation hearings click here

Congresscritters and how to contact them

 * all members on Gov Track
 * House members
 * Senators

Current Pending Bills

 * all bills on Gov Track

=Fark Threads on Legislation= To stare into the abyss that is the previous months of this circus, please click here (Don't say you weren't warned)
 * February, 2017

Governing D.C.

 * 1) Having solved all problems of national and global significance, Congress decides to resume governing the District of Columbia

H.R. 621 Land is Disposable Act of 2017
better known as Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2017
 * 1) Rep Chaffetz (R-epulsive Cancerous Growth) is sponsoring HR 621 because f*ck America, that's why
 * 2) Rep Jasn Chaffetz withdraws his bill to require the Dept of the Interior to sell off millions of acres of publicly held land after discovering there is such a thing as going too damn far even in the eyes of Utah voters

Stop Protecting Streams and Start Protecting Coal

 * 1) House to repeal Obama's Coal Ruling which prohibits polluting streams. #DAMMITDONALD

Repeal of ACA

 * 1) Prelude and/or background
 * 2) Backlash
 * 3) Repeal
 * 4) Replacement
 * 5) "Repair"
 * 6) Republicans quietly giving up on "Repeal and Replace", shift to "Repair" on Obamacare

Overturning Obama-era Regulations

 * 1) Okay I get that things are crazy in America right now, but what if we let schizophrenics buy guns again?

=Fark Threads on Congressional Investigations= To view the full mess starting from January, 2017, please click here (Don't say you weren't warned)

Possible Russian Interference Of 2016 POTUS Election
=Fark Threads on Trump cabinet confirmation hearings= There was a whole lot more than appears here, please check the archive for the full horror show

General

 * 1) Trump so good at 9 dimensional Kerplunk he's got libs protesting outside Chuck Schumer's house

Sessions for Attorney General

 * 1) The Enforcement of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights act is now close to being in the hands of Jefferson Davis Beauregard Davis III

Tillerson for Secretary of State

 * 1) Tillerson confirmed as Exxon ambassador to Russia
 * 2) Great Milestones in American Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine (1823) The Roosevelt Corollary (1902) the Truman doctrine (1948). The Reagan Doctrine (1983). The Putin Doctrine (2016)

DeVos for Education Secretary

 * 1) Two down, one to go

Bannon for Führer of National Security Council

 * 1) Let's ramble through some of Steve Bannon's thoughts in 2015: "Here's Why There Ought To Be A Cap On Women Studying Science And Maths". Oh Lawd

Gorsuch for Justice on the Supreme Court

 * 1) No
 * 2) Remember when Harry Reid triggered the "nuclear" option and he was warned it was a bad precedent to set?
 * 3) Millennial to Pelosi: Is there anything Democrats can do to differentiate themselves from Republicans in terms of economic policy? Pelosi to Millennial: We're capitalists. That's just the way it is
 * 4) Will Gorsuch be another Scalia when it comes to criminal law? A look at the many Scalia opinions favoring defendants, except those who got their doors busted in or were driving while black
 * 5) Remember a time when Judge Gorsuch was praised by the Democrats and Liberals as a well qualified, mainstream, and moderate Judge? You know from the time he made it on the Appellate Court until the day Trump nominated him for SCOTUS

=Fark threads on Trump Ambassadorships= Please check the archive for previous threads on Ambassadorships since there probably won't be any more ambassadors in the future

=Fark Threads on Congresscritters= The only reason why there is an archive for these assholes is so people might see them as an example of what not to do

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R, UT 3rd)

 * 1) Rep Chaffetz (R-epulsive Cancerous Growth) is sponsoring HR 621 because f*ck America, that's why
 * 2) Rep Jasn Chaffetz withdraws his bill to require the Dept of the Interior to sell off millions of acres of publicly held land after discovering there is such a thing as going too damn far even in the eyes of Utah voters

Senator Mitch McConnell (R KY)
Senate Majority Leader

Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI 4th)
Speaker of the House

Rep. Lamar Smith (R, TX 21st)
Chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

J.V. Team
State Rep. Matt Gaetz (R, FL, 1st)
 * 1) State Senator Rob Bradley (R, FL, 5th)
 * 2) Holster your Skittles: NRA-backed bill would make it much easier to claim self-defense in murder cases
 * 1) Florida GOP congresscritter drafts bill to abolish the EPA, because of course he did

WTF?
No one was expecting these

JV Squad

 * 1) State  Rep. Charlene Lima (D, RI 14)

Senator Chuck Schumer (D NY)
Senate minority leader

Senator John McCain (R AZ)

 * 1) McCain to Trump: How about you do some Presidentin' and help Ukraine fight off current Russian aggression? Is this thing on?
 * 2) Like an abused spouse calling a party host to apologize for their partner's drunken and boorish behavior at the event, today John McCain called the Australian Ambassador " to express my unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance,"

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D CA)
House Minority Leader
 * 1) Nancy Pelosi (D) decides that the call for less political correctness goes both ways, calls Steve Bannon a white supremacist during press conference. Twice

Rep. Richard Neal (D, MA, 1st)

 * 1) Remember the 1980s, when Democrats and Republicans talked to each other about tax policy? Representative Richard Neal (Old-MA) does

J.V. Squad

 * 1) State Senator Nancy Skinner (D, CA 9th)
 * 2) State Rep. Beth Fukumoto (R?/D?, HI, 36th) Hawaii state House minority leader
 * 3) Fukumoto may leave GOP. Trump last seen trying to figure out which Japanese island that was and where it was located

=See Also=
 * Drumpfster Fire
 * ALECworks
 * the archive for this page