fockin dems

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WHIP FLOOR UPDATE:

 

 

The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.

 

 

 

the bastards

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germaneness

 

Nazis

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DRUDGE REPORT: PELOSI LOWERS THE BOOM

Wed May 16 2007 14:43:59 ET

 

After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority.

 

The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.

 

In protest, the House Republicans are going to call procedural motions every half hour.

 

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DRUDGE REPORT: PELOSI LOWERS THE BOOM

Wed May 16 2007 14:43:59 ET

 

After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority.

 

The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.

 

In protest, the House Republicans are going to call procedural motions every half hour.

 

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This is an OUTRAGE!!!

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It will just be another nail in her coffin.

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i have no idea what this thread is about or why the germans are involved

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"The Republican do-nothing Congress is rearing its ugly head once again. Now that they’re in the minority Republicans are preventing critical legislation from being debated by calling for a constant series of procedural votes. Republicans are playing games with troop funding by holding up legislation which includes provisions to improve troop readiness, strengthen the National Guard, provide much-needed equipment and training, upgrade military health care and give the military a pay raise.

 

"Furthermore, they’re stopping important business at committee markups and hearings and wasting the time and resources of constituents who have traveled to Washington to meet with their Representatives. This wasteful and obstructionist behavior must come to an end so we can return to legislation which strengthens our military and provides them with the resources they desperately need."

 

GOP threatens to shut down House over rules change

 

House Republicans Wednesday threatened to shut down House business by calling a series of procedural votes until the Democratic leadership assured them that rules governing key parliamentary procedures would go unchanged.

 

Republicans began their assault in the mid-afternoon after hearing that the Democratic leadership allegedly planned to change the germaneness rule, which would limit the ability of the minority to challenge provisions in a bill on the floor.

 

“This is an astonishing attempt by the majority leadership to duck accountability for tax-and-spend policies the American people do not want,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). “The majority leadership is gutting House rules that have been in place for 185 years so they can raise taxes and increase government spending without a vote. House Republicans will use every tool available to fight this abuse of power.”

 

Stacey Bernard, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), said the Republican antics were counterproductive and that they had not even seen the content of the bill they were protesting.

 

“They are delaying a bill that is critical,” she said, referring to the defense authorization bill that was scheduled to come to the floor. “They don’t know what they are doing.”

 

A GOP leadership aide said if the rule were changed, Republicans would continue to call the procedural votes and begin to thwart progress on the committee level as well.

 

“We will bring down the House,” the aide said.

 

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gop-th...2007-05-16.html

These are the same folks who, when they were the majority in Congress, threatened to change the rules so the Dems could not filibuster.

 

The GOP Congress: at best, a Bush-agenda rubber-stamping, pork-barrelling gaggle of crooks; at worst, a collection of corrupt, useless and whiny party hacks who lie to the American public.

 

GOPpers are as useless as boobs on a bull.