Congress Now Not Even Bothering to Name the Bills They Pass

Gateway Pundit ^ | August 9, 2010 | Warner Todd Huston

[goldendays]

U.S Senate Passing Bills In Secret
U.S Senate Passing Bills In Secret
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmSS5H8yUKE&playnext=1&videos=vAeltxpjcm0

[Rodamala]

Why name bills when they are merely “deemed passed” without a calling of the yeas and nays anyway??? nameless bills passed by nameless congressmen.

[Kimberly GG]

Well....if that’s suppose to provide cover for RHINO’s, they’re sadly mistaken!

[VanDeKoik]

They are all either Intolerable or the Coercive Acts anyway.

[bigheadfred]

Why not just go alphabetical each year like they do hurricanes. The Aardvark act of 2010. The Bear act of 2010. The Cat act of 2010. Etc.

I'm surprised they just haven't started using pictographs.

[SunkenCiv]

Or Chinese year names — they can get a free list of those at any chop suey joint. ;’)

[JrsyJack]

Name them...they neither read nor vote on them anymore, they are deemed passed whatever that means. Next year I am deeming my taxes paid.

[JrsyJack]

I know you’re right. I guess we just found a small flaw in the Constitution as written: the Congress and the President don’t really need to follow it because there is no mechanism beyond the ballot box for more urgent action.

Reread the Declaration of Independence...the next step is clearly enunciated there.

[JrsyJack]

This is a common error. A bill becomes law automatically when passed by both houses of Congress with or without the President’s signature. Except if the POTUS vetoes it. See Const., Art 1, Sec. 7. The intent of the FF was to make Congress supreme in passing laws. Signing bills is merely for publicity, practiced by every president, to show his agreement.

If so then how does a pocket veto kill a bill?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Is there nowhere we can turn for redress for criminal and Constitutional negligence like this Congress has shown?

Sorry. We're just The People. We have no 'standing'.

[rlmorel]

Okay. THAT made me laugh!

[rlmorel]

The Anal Penetration Act of 2010

The Butt-twisting Screw act of 2011

The Circumcision With a Dull Butter Knife Act of 2012

One might think from reading these names that I have a fixation on the concept of being an unwilling participant in painful, forced sexual acts by a third party.

Given this government of ours and how we are being treated, I cannot deny it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The sitting _resident is considerably less horny than the horndog from Arkansas. I doubt he leaves any DNA in the Oval Office. That cannot be said about his appointees.

[rlmorel]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit at that visualization.

[rlmorel]

Amazing, isn’t it?

[Uncle Miltie]

"Punish Success, Reward Failure Act, Version 2,371.3."

They can just increment the numbers.

[huldah1776]

Aired in 2008 - how many secret bills have been passed since then?

[rickb308]

“The totals were 10 Present/Not Voting”

How does Obammy still get to vote? Oh, that’s right. “The Chicago Way”.

[mewzilla]

I suspect that the legislation is easier to hide if it goes unnamed. Harder to know which number applies to which bill when you’re trying to look up legislation.

[Texas Fossil]

Not Voting-

(UT) Bennett, Robert [R]

(WV) Byrd, Robert [D] (deceased)

(SC) DeMint, Jim [R]

(GA) Isakson, John [R]

(VT) Sanders, Bernard [I]

(NM) Udall, Tom [D]

(MS) Wicker, Roger [R]