Thank you!! Just emailing about starting the new thread ;)
PLEASE VOTE FOR TERRI ON THIS CBS POLL
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/national/main681495.shtml
Jim McDermott D. WA
"The issue is how it was brought into this body, on St. Patrick's day, rammed through here without discussion...
"What am I supposed to do? You say this is only one case…"
Me: Well, why not write legislation protection all the disabled?? We blew it we should have done this. It would have gone through.
Roy Blunt R.
"We're not deciding anything...we're asking a judge to come in and decide what a family couldn't decide."...He says we should have a broader and wider meaning written into this legislation.
John Conyer D.
"We will send a signal that the rules of procedure no longer apply when they apply to the ruling party."
"W will be casting aside aside separation of power and taking on the role of judge of doctor of priest of parent or spouse."
"If the President really cared about the feeding tubes, why did he sign a bill in Texas the hospital could do this OVER a family's objection?" [sounds like that bill was wrong and we should change all bills]
"We are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of men. We will be telling our friends abroad that congress can ignore it when it doesn't suit our needs." Yep!! They'll know that we are 200 million strong, not just one Congress stuck with set rules. When wrong is done, we "men" will rise up when States or Congress does wrong.
Mark Kennedy R Mn
"We as a society will be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us."
Marcy Kaptur D Ohio
"Her being belongs to God and to them [family]. This decision on Terri does not belong in the Congress, OR the courts even when the family is bitter, divided, and unable to reconcile."
Tom Delay R
"The Senate has passed this bill unanimously. the legal and polital issues may be complicomplicated, but the moral issues are not. For 58 long hours her mouth has been parched, and her hunger pains have been throbbing… She is alive and she is still one of us. She has survived her pasion weekend and she is waiting. I call for the vote."
The VOTE PASSED YES!!!!!! But now they have to do an individual vote which should take 15 minutes. Then it will go over to the senate to be recorded, then over to the White House in an hour.