Posted on 06/11/2015 5:41:51 PM PDT by cotton1706
A whopping 34 courageous conservative Republicans shocked the political world on Thursday by severely wounding—and nearly killing—Obamatrade on a purely procedural vote.
Most importantly about this is that the vote passed with less than a majority of the full House of Representatives. Speaker Rep. John Boehner was only able to — on a purely procedural vote — obtain 217, rather than the 218 votes for a majority, votes for the rule. It passed the House 217-212.
The vote, which nearly failed and would have ended Obamatrade right there, was a necessary procedural hurdle—a rule—that was must-pass for Obamatrade to make its way to the House floor for final consideration on Friday. What’s more, the nearly successful effort to kill Obamatrade—which has been lobbied heavily for by House GOP leadership, particularly the program’s chief architect Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan means that there’s blood in the water around Obamatrade everywhere in the eleventh hour.
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Thanks for posting. BTTT!
The secret stuff is the most sickening thing, though maybe he’s actually gone and looked at it.
A good constitutional amendment would be that there will be no more secret bills.
I would so support such an amendment.
This secret legislation tactic need to be brought to a screeching halt and pronto.
And I mean on everything, no secret regulations, nothing.
The FCC net neutrality thingie was another example of that foolishness.
Modern America seems to be an exercise in the twisting of constitutional forms to evade founding intents, which included a Judeo-Christian ethic. The Constitution didn’t need to say anything about God in order to be crafted for the civil affairs of a nation that saw God as its leading light, individual theological disputes notwithstanding.
King wants to flood the Pacific with Corn. Land prices in Iowa will double.
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