Congressional Trump Supporters Are Racing to Supplicate With ‘Messaging Bills’ Meant to Hype the President

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Messaging bills are pieces of legislation brought forth by Congress that signal their take on a particular issue. They are usually reserved for election cycles, meant to show where a politician stands and the issues they take seriously. However, Republican members of Congress are rushing them onto the floor right now all in the name of President Trump. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00Messaging bills are pieces of legislation, brought forth by Congress members that signal their take on a particular issue.

00:06They're usually reserved for election cycles, meant to show where a politician stands and the issues they take seriously.

00:12However, Republican members of Congress are rushing them onto the floor right now, all in the name of President Trump.

00:18Some of them are innocuous enough, seemingly only to ingratiate them with the man in the Oval Office.

00:23Those include the still-yet-to-be-cosponsored bill to, quote,

00:26"...arrange for the carving of the figure of President Donald J. Trump on Mount Rushmore."

00:30That was brought forward by Representative Ana Paulina Luna of Florida in January.

00:35Another bill seeks to rename Dulles Airport in Virginia after the president.

00:39This is the second time in less than a year this identical bill has been brought before Congress, the last of which died in committee.

00:45However, Republican Andy Ogles from Tennessee proposed a more impactful one,

00:49one that would allow presidents to serve a third term as long as they were not consecutive terms.

00:54Luckily, checks and balances require a two-thirds majority vote by both chambers

00:58and a ratification by three-fourths of states to get constitutional amendments through.

01:02Still, others don't require constitutional changes, but are equally dangerous,

01:06like Arizona Representative Andy Biggs' recent proposal to abolish worker health and safety watchdog OSHA, among others.

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