Senate Live Vote on Obama's 3.5T Dollar Budget- C-SPAN 2

04/02/09

[TornadoAlley3]

Live on C-Span 2, Amendments being voted on @ present.

[remaxagnt]

everyone please pray that this gets voted down!

[TornadoAlley3]

If the Senate approves a budget proposal, the matter would then go before a House-Senate conference committee where differences between the two measures would be mediated.

[TornadoAlley3]

6 more Amendments, then final passage vote.

[AirForceMom]

I may throw up before then.

[TornadoAlley3]

De Mint has amendment to Consumer Protection Act so thrift stores can sell clothes etc...amends lead bill.

[tapatio]

Bump

[TheZMan]

Previous amendment allowed people to choose their own plan and doctor, effectively preventing the government mandating of the same. It was (I believe) approved.

[romanesq]

Already? This atrocity is being shoved right down our throats. It’s a damn nightmare.

[TheZMan]

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx

[St. Louis Conservative]

I don’t think this is the actual budget. It’s just a frame of the actual budget that will be voted on later. Am I wrong?

[tapatio]

Watching this is like waiting for a hurricane.

You know it is coming,yet all you can do is sit and wait for it.

[TornadoAlley3]

If the Senate approves it, it would then go before a House-Senate conference committee where differences between the version the House passed earlier and this one will be mediated.

[Son House]

Øbama’s 3.5T Dollar Budget

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Spend more than you confiscate in taxation and you’ll end up bankrupt, even a caveman could vote against excessive Congressional spending

[Wisconsinlady]

Didn’t the senate approve it already” 61 to 36 ai think

[TornadoAlley3]

Not to my knowledge.

The House version of the budget passed today by a margin of 233-196 in a virtual party-line vote. All but 20 House Democrats supported it; no House Republican voted in favor.

[9YearLurker]

I thought it must be something like that: the AP has a long story about it without mentioning any specifics other than the vote ‘largely’ following party lines.

[Nervous Tick]

>> 6 more Amendments, then final passage vote.

The amendments are just “feelgood” nonsense, so the RINOs can say they were justified in voting for this monstrosity.

When the bill passes, every damn one of the amendments with any teeth in it will be tossed out in conference.

What do you want to bet?

[mojo114]

Hi, thanks for the Live Thread about this catastrophe of spending.
Greta’s show is on it, she thinks it’ll go to midnight.

[tapatio]

Does that mean thrift stores can’t sell used children’s items?

[AirForceMom]

Nothing like helping out the poor right?
These b@stards can all rot in hell.

[TornadoAlley3]

won't take that bet:)

Lead Amendment to allow thrift stores to sell children's clothing, library books remain, dealers sell ATV’s to children failed, Gregg voted against...

Coburn now up, his amendment is to allow health care providers to refuse to participate in abortions, etc...

[tapatio]

I used to work at a very large Goodwill store.The children’s clothing was a majority of the sales.

[TornadoAlley3]

go to midnight

well, I can't stay awake much longer, will have to check back in the am:)

[AirForceMom]

My Mom clothed 7 of us through Goodwill and one of my girls has 3 boys and relies on thrift stores. Or did.

[TornadoAlley3]

Does that mean thrift stores can’t sell used children’s items?

They can, but they have to pay a lot of $ to have the clothes tested first, many have said cannot afford it.

[tapatio]

What I am wondering..does this apply to clothing that is donated for disaster victims also?

[mojo114]

Me too!

[TornadoAlley3]

I do not know about donations, I think it is with sales.

[AirForceMom]

Im sure it does. Anything used has to be tested.
I guess this outlaws garage sales too. Going to create underground swaps.

[mojo114]

Call your Senator quick!

[Wisconsinlady]

They are voting now.

[AirForceMom]

All thrift shops are from donations, or most of them. I’m sure any donated to anyone falls into that.

[Wisconsinlady]

It’s more like watching a bad accident=you don’t want to but you can’t help looking.

[AirForceMom]

A train coming at you full boar, but in slow motion, like a horror movie.

[unkus]

The amendments are just “feelgood” nonsense, so the RINOs can say they were justified in voting for this monstrosity.

When the bill passes, every damn one of the amendments with any teeth in it will be tossed out in conference.

What do you want to bet?
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You’re right on target. Damn these vermin.

[popdonnelly]

“The amendments are just “feelgood” nonsense, so the RINOs can say they were justified”

Blame the Democrats, not the Republicans.

[TornadoAlley3]

but the thrift shops sell them, if someone is just giving clothes away, I do not think have to be tested, if you donate to a charity that gives clothes away(a church for example, not tested) but yes, the thrift store has to test.

[Wisconsinlady]

Yeah, you don’t even have time to scream.

BTW, what is in the amendments they are voting on now?

[Former MSM Viewer]

There better not be a single Rep vote...and a few Dems need to come to their senses, as well...

[TornadoAlley3]

Coburn amendment to allow health care providers to refuse a treatment they disagree with on moral or religious grounds.

[AirForceMom]

I hope they dont have to be tested if they are given away. At least Moms can pass things on as always.

[TornadoAlley3]

I thought Landrieu was a blue dog, guess not..she voted no to Coburn amendment.

[TornadoAlley3]

I have 5 children, they never chewed on zippers or buttons or bikes. it is insane.

[TornadoAlley3]

Coburn amendment failed.

[tapatio]

Amendment fails

[Former MSM Viewer]

This is a critically important amendment. If not passed, they will try to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions.

The Catholic church says they will shut the hospitals down rather than perform abortions.

This is the largest provider of charitable medical services besides the Federal Govt and they will shut down rather to violate their moral stand...

Pray for our country. The good people of America are under assault by out of control politicians...

[Former MSM Viewer]

God help us...

[Always Right]

Blame the Democrats, not the Republicans.

Why? The GOP acted like a bunch of Democrats when they were in power. Now they are out of power, their opposition don't mean nothing. The GOP blew their chance and their folly put the Commies firmly in charge.

[TornadoAlley3]

Vitter amendment - agreed to but not read, so don't know what it is.

Final amendment before final passage....another Vitter amendment - drug testing for welfare recipients, if they test positive first time, treatment, 2nd time, denied funds, but their children would still get funding.