Posted on 09/27/2013 12:27:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 09/27/2013 12:28:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Typical for Flake. He was also out of town during the critical House vote on carbon taxes in 2009. He had a “family function” that he just couldn’t miss.
SHUT 'ER DOWN BOYS... SHUT 'ER DOWN!
Read the article.
If the repuglicans are agreeing to fund the IRS and the NSA, the fix is in and all of this is just a sham circus
I’d send the exact bill back ... no additions and tell Reid to read this;
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 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 you Mr. Reid and the rest of the Senate is in violation of the Constitution by funding something you can’t.
Unless they had a loved one on a deathbed and that loved one did in fact die, there is no excuse for missing this vote. And, it better had been a very close loved one that couldn’t have picked some other day to die.
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