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Pelosi to Block Vote on Colombia
AP via SFGate ^ | 4/9/8 | JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 04/09/2008 11:23:48 AM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Defying the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday the House will change its rules to avoid a required vote this year on a hotly disputed free-trade agreement with Colombia.

Pelosi said she will bring a procedural change to the House floor on Thursday that would remove the timetable under which Congress would have had to take up trade bills within 90 legislative days after they are received from the White House.

"The president took action" in submitting the Colombia free trade agreement to Congress on Tuesday, she said. "I will take mine tomorrow." Pelosi said that Bush called her Monday to tell her he was sending the agreement to Congress.

White House press secretary Dana Perino reacted sharply. "Speaker Pelosi today did something unprecedented in the history of negotiating trade deals in announcing that Democrats would change the rules in the middle of the game," Bush's spokeswoman said.

Perino said removing the 90-day timetable sets an awful precedent "for all future administrations, both Republicans and Democrats, because countries will not be able to have faith in our word when we're negotiating trade deals."

The White House has aggressively pushed Congress to approve the deal with Colombia, arguing that helping a key ally in South America is in the political and security interests of the United States. Perino accused Democrats of trying to kill the deal "without having to have their fingerprints on it."

House Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement that Pelosi's proposed rule change "would be cheating." He asked what nation "would conclude a treaty with the United States knowing that Congress can change the rules of the game after it is negotiated?"

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; colombia; columbia; obstructionistdems; pelosi
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Pelosi's buddy, Hugo Chavez, will be very pleased.
1 posted on 04/09/2008 11:23:49 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Bring back Gephardt.


2 posted on 04/09/2008 11:25:06 AM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama

Paleos dancing in the streets at the news.


3 posted on 04/09/2008 11:26:16 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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> “Pelosi to Block Vote on Colombia”

Proving, once again that, for the Democrats, it’s not about Democracy, it’s about their communist agenda.


4 posted on 04/09/2008 11:29:46 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SmithL
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday the House will change its rules

Do they EVER follow the rules?

5 posted on 04/09/2008 11:30:33 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: SmithL

OK, Nan, drop the pretencse. Who’s paying you to be this dumb?


6 posted on 04/09/2008 11:31:29 AM PDT by tanuki (u)
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To: SmithL

Piglosi represents her marxist constituents well.


7 posted on 04/09/2008 11:32:09 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The Presidential election is a race to the bottom. Which Party will out stupid the other to lose ?)
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To: SmithL

I’m so happy the spineless republicans always played nice when those neutered chumps were in charge.


8 posted on 04/09/2008 11:32:09 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: SmithL

For the mere crime of electing a president slightly to the right of center, the people of Colombia will be left out in the wilderness by their “friends” in the U.S.


9 posted on 04/09/2008 11:32:34 AM PDT by threeleftsmakearight
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To: SmithL
Pelosi Pledges DNC Loyalty to Communists in Venezuela/Ecuador
10 posted on 04/09/2008 11:32:41 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: SmithL

Democrats=Peons of Hugo Chavez


11 posted on 04/09/2008 11:33:38 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: 1rudeboy
Killing this deal should cause all our illegals to return to their country of origin. So we've got that going for us.
12 posted on 04/09/2008 11:34:27 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are doom and gloomers, union members and liberals so bad at math?)
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To: SmithL
She and the other anti-American left-wing Communist are blocking the vote because they want to support their Communist brothers in the other South American Countries that are at war with the United States.

Or maybe she is a Camorra since she used illegals in her business in the anti-American foreign country Joseph Francisco.

13 posted on 04/09/2008 11:34:35 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: johnny7
"Pelosi Pledges DNC Loyalty to Communists in Venezuela/Ecuador"

How quickly would Pelosi bring such an agreement with Venezuela to a vote, I wonder?

14 posted on 04/09/2008 11:35:22 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: SmithL

Why doesn’t she just allow it to go to vote? Don’t they have the numbers?


15 posted on 04/09/2008 11:37:48 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: SmithL

Without using armed force, and knowing that the political system has miserably failed, how in the hell do we get our country out of this mess????

We can’t live out all of these traitors.


16 posted on 04/09/2008 11:43:47 AM PDT by Gator113 (Obama has "changed" me. I am now "a Typical White Person”.)
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To: Gator113

live out = outlive


17 posted on 04/09/2008 11:44:39 AM PDT by Gator113 (Obama has "changed" me. I am now "a Typical White Person”.)
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To: SmithL
****”House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said the rules change would apply only to Colombia.”****

She may want to reconsider this maneuver. If she ticks off enough Republican Senators and they maintain over 45 after the election but a Democrat wins the White House there won't be a single piece of legislation passed because the Republicans will filibuster everything without explanation.

18 posted on 04/09/2008 11:50:12 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: Gator113

“Without using armed force, and knowing that the political system has miserably failed, how in the hell do we get our country out of this mess????”

A good question indeed sir!


19 posted on 04/09/2008 11:52:21 AM PDT by USMCGunnut (Be polite, be professional....but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: SmithL

OBSTRUCTION


20 posted on 04/09/2008 11:58:58 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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