Posted on 02/19/2011 9:09:19 AM PST by PROCON
Just before 2 a.m. on February 19, the war on climate science showed its grip on the U.S. House of Representatives as it voted to eliminate U.S. funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Republican majority, on a mostly party-line vote of 244-179, went on record as essentially saying that it no longer wishes to have the IPCC prepare its comprehensive international climate science assessments. Transcript of floor debate follows.
To give you the flavor of how the know-nothings are in the saddle, here’s the debate on the amendment to de-fund the IPCC (my unofficial transcript).
(Excerpt) Read more at climatesciencewatch.org ...
Excellent, no let’s think up a few more corrupt international organizations to defund.
vaudine
I have added quite a bit of text...if you prefer we can delete anything that you wish.
Then bamster elects to shut down the government.
That has been my question too. They have control of the purse strings, just redline all these BS expenditures out of the budget, no bills needed unless it is to throw whole departments into the dustbin.
All spending must originate in the house.
If the house refuses to originate any spending for fryentology, there is nothing Obonghit or the senate can do.
LLS
Also read this morning that the US House stopped the 15 percent ethanol proposal.
Because they do not get to write their first budget until the beginning of the fiscal year. The previous congress didn’t write a budget at all - operating on temporary resolutions to continue the 2009 budget.
These bills are culling unspent money from the previous budgetary period.
Love it!
Good day for the home team.
This “law” to de-fund Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is really an amendment to an omnibus continuing resolution appropriating money to fund the federal government from 4 March 2011 to 30 September 2011. As an omnibus continuing resolution, this bill starts with the default of continuing the same level of funding as that appropriated for the preceding fiscal year, 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2010. This vote here discussed therefore just excludes the funding for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and related items from the spending bill for the balance of this fiscal year.
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an ostensibly private entity that derives or at least derived funding through numerous line items in the federal budget, whereas Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an entity of international diplomacy with a line item in the federal budget. The Congress did not appropriate money to ACORN but to bureaucratic agencies that in turn selected ACORN to receive grants. If eliminating funding for ACORN by name constituted a bill of attainder, then that logic does not apply to IPCC because the latter is essentially an entire government agency, not a private entity.
Yeah...and start with the big ones....
All those 4 letter dingleberries
IPCC, BATF....etc
Yeah...and start with the big ones....
All those 4 letter dingleberries
IPCC, BATF....etc
On the House Vote to Defund the IPCC ( From a real Climate Scientist ...Dr. Roy Spencer)
Heretics! Burn them at the stake!
I like what I am seeing out of the House this week.
As their attempts to dismantle America unravels, libtards will become more and more unhinged. It’s happening all around us as we speak. We must be cautious.
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