House leaves town without a solution as government shutdown deadline looms - MSNBC Reports

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NBC News' Sahil Kapur reports from Capitol Hill as lawmakers leave town for the weekend without a solution in place to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. - Aired on 09/22/2023.

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1. Wait, what?

What's a minibus rule? Kevvy said they were doing a minibus rule. What is that? At 2:15

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2. I listened to this 3 times and all I could figure is that it's a small majority?

I'm not sure, either. Except it sounds like McCarthy is trying to sound like he knows what he's doing.

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3. He's trying so hard...

And falling on his face on the asphalt. I think he meant omnibus but he doesn't even know what that is even though he's voted for them in the past.

He's so out of his league that I would feel sorry for him if he wasn't such an asshole.

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4. I know, he's trying to sound like he has some sort of control over this confederacy of dunces

And I looked it up - see if this helps:

What is a minibus in government?
Packaging all or a number of appropriation bills together creates what are called omnibus or minibus measures. These bills appropriate money to operate the federal government and make national policy in scores of areas.

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5. Well I'll be...

There is such a thing!

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6. Apparently so, it would have helped if he'd explained to the reporters what he was talking about

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7. Probably.

I had never heard of that before, now I have to go see what the difference is between omnibus and minibus! Another reason to not like the guy, geeze, make me do homework at this hour!

Wikipedia says:

Omnibus bill

An omnibus bill is a proposed law that covers a number of diverse or unrelated topics. Omnibus is derived from Latin and means "to, for, by, with or from everything".

What is a minibus in government?
Packaging all or a number of appropriation bills together creates what are called omnibus or minibus measures. These bills appropriate money to operate the federal government and make national policy in scores of areas.

Okay, they're the same thing, never heard it called minibus before. Weird.

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8. Thank you! I learned something today, too.

I'd never heard it before, either...

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9. Okay, so I have to say this here...

Thanks, Kevin!

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10. LOL! Well, I wouldn't go that far...

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11. Actually...

It was supposed to be a play on the "Thanks, Obama!" thing but I guess I didn't indicate that clearly.