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CNS News: House Members in Open Revolt
breitbart.com ^ | 9/27/13 | breitbart news

Posted on 09/27/2013 5:33:19 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: cripplecreek

True. Only the state legislatures can save the republic now.


41 posted on 09/27/2013 6:06:33 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: cotton1706
CNS News is reporting that a group of 21 House members have sent a letter to all GOP Senators, warning them against a cloture vote on the Continuing Resolution. A vote on cloture would give Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) the ability to remove the defunding Obamacare provision included in the CR. The House conservatives who signed the letter stated that they consider a cloture vote the same as a vote in support of Obamacare....

....Signers of the letter include: Dave Schweikert (R.-AZ), Charles Boustany, M.D. (R.-LA ), John Culberson (R.-TX ), Steve King (R.-IA), Ted Yoho DVM (R.-FL ), Thomas Massie (R.-KY), Lynn Westmoreland (R.- GA), Jack Kingston (R.-GA), Jeff Duncan (R.-SC), Paul Broun M.D. (R.-GA ), Ron DeSantis (R.-FL), Michele Bachmann (R.-MN), Matt Salmon (R.-AZ), Steve Stockman (R.-TX), Louie Gohmert (R.-TX), Walter Jones (R.-NC), Scott Garrett (R.-NJ), Scott Perry (R.-PA), Mark Meadows (R.-NC), Tim Huelskamp (R.-KS).

Ping for later

42 posted on 09/27/2013 6:14:08 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America's destiny.)
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To: cotton1706
CNS News: House Members in Open Revolt

Wouldn't it be nice if our REPRESENTATIVES did OUR BIDDING for once, as The Constitution prescribes, instead of Party and Big Money's.

43 posted on 09/27/2013 6:14:08 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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To: cornelis
"The anti-Obamacare rhetoric is providing smoke and mirrors for a vote that ultimately allows to fund it. "

This is exactly how many GOPe Senators get their high Conservative Rating from a review of votes they have constructed to blow smoke up the voting public.

44 posted on 09/27/2013 6:20:55 AM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
This vote will provide The List of RINOs and not in the Senate.

I suspect that The List will have >20 RINOs who have a political death wish for themselves and the GOPe.

45 posted on 09/27/2013 6:24:40 AM PDT by Paladin2 (h)
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To: cripplecreek

Exactly!


46 posted on 09/27/2013 6:37:35 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: austinaero

Perhaps a clearer way of saying this is that Cruz is asking everybody to refuse to vote for cloture UNTIL Harry Reid withdraws his amendment to fully fund Obamacare.

What these people are saying is that they will vote for cloture prematurely.


47 posted on 09/27/2013 6:53:14 AM PDT by butterdezillion (Free online faxing at http://faxzero.com/ Fax all your elected officials. Make DC listen.)
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To: servantboy777

right.

If Reid gets cloture, he’ll use his power as Senate Leader to amend the House CR to strip away the defund provision AND importantly he will use the same power to not allow any other amendments.

And at that point it will only take 51 to pass the CR.

Hence the way to stop it is at the 60 vote place - cloture.


48 posted on 09/27/2013 6:53:34 AM PDT by Principled
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To: cripplecreek

bingo!!


49 posted on 09/27/2013 6:58:31 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: cotton1706

In September 17, 2009, Congressman Charlie Rangel introduced H.R. 3590, titled the “Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009” to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 modifying the first-time homebuyers’ credit for members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House and John Boehner was the minority leader when this bill passed on October 8, 2009 by a 416-0 vote. This bill went to the Senate where Majority Leader Harry Reid gutted H.R. 3590, deleted all the contents after the first sentence, and replaced it with what became the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” of November 19, 2009.

Article I, section 7, which states that “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” The key idea is that the Supreme Court recently upheld the individual mandate as a tax. But if the mandate is a tax, the PLF argues, then it is a bill for raising revenue. That means that the Affordable Care Act must have begun in the House of Representatives. And it did not.”


50 posted on 09/27/2013 7:01:11 AM PDT by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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Since Article I, section 7, which states that “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” The key idea is that the Supreme Court recently upheld the individual mandate as a tax. But if the mandate is a tax, the PLF argues, then it is a bill for raising revenue. That means that the Affordable Care Act must have begun in the House of Representatives. And it did not.”

Therefore when the bill returns back to Boehner, Reid will have violated Article 1 Section 7 ... which is unconstitutional.


51 posted on 09/27/2013 7:05:38 AM PDT by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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To: alphadog

The “PLF” referred to in my post is the “Pacific Legal Foundation” whose ideas and arguments I incorporated in my post, I did not mean to not acknowledge attribution.


52 posted on 09/27/2013 7:20:05 AM PDT by alphadog (2nd Bn. 3rd Marines, Vietnam, class of 68)
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To: cotton1706

The RINO senators will say they will not shut down the government. A vote with the House will force the Dems to shut it down, not the Republicans.

They don’t care what conservatives say or want.


53 posted on 09/27/2013 8:12:04 AM PDT by jch10 (The greatest threat to America is the Democrats.)
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