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Ron Johnson gets off to a slow start in D.C. while dodging the press
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Sep 01, 2011 08:14pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Joe Tarr |
| News Date | Friday, August 26, 2011 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In late June, with a crisis looming over the country's debt ceiling, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) took a stand on the Senate floor.
On June 28, he threatened to bring the Senate to a screeching halt if the body didn't make progress on a budget plan.
Johnson said he would withhold his consent on issues before the Senate. That would drag out proceedings indefinitely and require a two-thirds majority to overcome his objection in order to do anything.
"Unless we receive some assurance from the Democrat leadership that we will actually start addressing our budget out in the open, in the bright light of day, I will begin to object," Johnson said on the Senate floor. "I will begin to withhold my consent."
It was the first time the freshman senator had attracted notice on the Senate floor, and he spoke with tea party righteous indignation. He quickly backed down from his threat, but he grabbed, at least for a moment, the national spotlight. He eventually voted against the agreement that raised the debt ceiling.
Johnson, who won a stinging upset over Democrat Russ Feingold last November, has been mostly silent since taking office. He has proposed just one bill and has had seemingly little impact on the nation's governance. |
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