Here We Go Again: A House Bill That No One Will Have Read, Let Alone Analyzed
Nancy Pelosi belongs in a banana republic, not the U.S. House of Representatives.
This is from Politico:
Republicans say Democrats are ramming their climate-change legislation through the House without enough time for members to read the bill — let alone to understand it — all in violation of their promises about creating a more transparent legislative process.
(Aside: What’s this “Republicans say” crap? It’s an objective fact that what Pelosi has done violates her promises, and that few members could possibly understand a 300-page add-on to a 1,000 page-plus bill in less than 12-24 hours. — Ed.)
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), running the debate for his party, asked repeatedly Friday afternoon if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher – sitting in the speaker’s chair although she’s already been confirmed as Obama’s undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security — repeatedly dodged the question.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), one of the bill’s sponsors, finally rose to say that a single copy of the current version of the bill was available at the speaker’s desk and on the Internet, which members would have to leave the floor to access.
But that wasn’t enough for Boehner, whose move threatened to postpone a vote well into the evening – on a day that has already seen hours of contentious debate.
Rep. Geoff Davis, a Republican from Kentucky, said earlier in the day that the cap-and-trade bill represented the “economic colonization of the heartland” by New York and California. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) called the bill a “scam” that would do nothing but satisfy “the twisted desires of radical environmentalists.” Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Mich.) called it a “massive transfer of wealth” from the United States to foreign countries.
Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio countered that, without the bill, the United States would remain energy-dependent on people who want to “fly planes into our buildings.”
Somebody needs to remind Rep. Ryan that we have TRILLIONS of dollars’ worth of fossil fuel resources ready and waiting to be accessed and used — if only he and his party would stop obsessing over ways to choke the economy and start working on ways to grow it again, and stop giving into what may the the biggest hoax in human history.
Just received this e-mail from House Leader Boehner’s office:
Folks – Last night, at 3 AM, the House Democrats released a 300-page amendment to their 1,200-page national energy tax legislation. No one – not one single Member of Congress – has read the bill that the Democratic Leadership is bringing up for a vote today. Speaker Pelosi promised the American people at least 24 hours to read a bill before a vote in her “New Direction for America” document distributed in 2006 that remains on her website today. Another broken promise from Washington Democrats.
So House Republican Leader John Boehner is reading portions of it to the American people. By tradition, three Members of the House have the right to deliver unlimited floor remarks – the Speaker, the Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader. This is the House equivalent of the filibuster in the Senate. We expect it may take a while, but Members of Congress, and – more importantly – the American people have a right know what the House is voting on.
The relevant passage, seen at Page 22 from the PDF Boehner’s office refers to, is here:
PROHIBIT “DEAD OF NIGHT” SPECIAL INTEREST PROVISIONS
Require that all conference committee meetings be open to the public and that members of the
conference committee have a public opportunity to vote on all amendments. Make copies of conference reports available to Members and post them publicly on the Internet 24 hours before consideration (unless waived by a supermajority vote). Disclose all earmarks.
A real establishment press would be holding Pelosi accountable for all of this, and for telling us without proof how the CIA lied to her for years (it’s been about six weeks, and she’s failed to prove it), and for ramming through the mislabeled “stimulus” bill under similar “no one has read it” conditions, and …. and ….
Ah, the never dying “energy independence” myth. Sorry, folks, it’s not possible to be completely energy independent and it’s never going to happen. Of course there are ways we could beef up our domestic supplies of oil and coal, but the enviros and the libs won’t have any of that sadly. Oh, and they won’t let us build nuclear power plants either. (But Obama funnily enough thinks it’s great for Iran and North Korea to have them.)
And last time I checked, scumbag Osama’s money for 9/11 came from his fathers construction business, not oil transactions and Afghanistan which harbored him is not known for its vast oil reserves. Trying to link 9/11 with oil is intellectual dishonesty. And in point of fact only about 16% of our oil even comes from Middle Eastern countries to begin with. Let alone no one has been or can prove any link from oil money going directly to any terrorist group. And even if the oil supports terrorism fallacy were 100% true, if the jihadists of the world had no oil, they would simply find another funding resource and continue on.
The terrorist angle is merely a lame attempt by the demos to try to appeal to conservatives. As if crippling our economy further will help us against terrorism.
And Pelosi is a fanatic, pure and simple.
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