Dems Changing the Rules, (ahem) THEIR Rules Already
Posted by Andy on March 30th, 2007
Via GreenEyeShade (Rep. John Campbell’s blog)
As CQ reported yesterday, just three months after taking the majority, Democrats are going to amend the very budget rules they created to promote fiscal responsibility. The Democrats say they are amending these rules to keep Republicans from being able to amend bills, I think they are doing it to spend more money. Either way, Americans are getting a raw deal.
Click here to read the story or read excerpts below:
Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday that during the upcoming two-week recess he will craft changes in the pay-as-you-go spending rules adopted in January (H Res 6) so that the GOP can no longer blindside the majority with broad and politically loaded motions to redraft legislation….
The GOP has made 19 motions to recommit bills, and has been successful six times. They might have added a seventh to that string, but a bill providing for a vote in the House for the District of Columbia (HR 1433) was withdrawn from floor debate to avoid a vote on a Republican motion regarding gun laws….
Democratic leaders said the bill will return to the floor in April, after new House rules have been adopted….
“The majority should try to figure out how to debate bills rather than further minimize procedures available to the minority,” said Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo.…
“No matter how they do it, they’d be eroding at least decades of germaneness precedents and rolling back the minority’s ability to offer motions to recommit,” one Republican aide said.
I hope voters are aware of the absolute disregard for decency that the Democrats have, not to mention the hypocrisy. They ran on the message of working together in the Red Districts that gave Pelosi the gavel. Now she’s using that gavel to work the remaining Republicans, that is work them into the hallway and shadows so they can’t derail the liberal tax and spend train, not to mention throwing a wrench in the special interest election payback machine.
Let’s just hope Republicans can utilize this in 2008, so that Pelosi’s reign as Speaker is short lived.
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