Here... see for yourself.
Posted on 05/22/2008 10:51:53 AM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) --
Democrats moved forward with plans to override President Bush's veto of a $290 billion farm bill Thursday despite a printing error that has turned a triumphant political victory into a vexing embarrassment.
It seems that no one read the bill after it was printed on parchment paper and sent to the White House, where Bush vetoed it Wednesday. Missing was a 34-page section on international food aid and trade.
Democratic leaders in the House decided to pass the bill again, including the missing section in the version that Bush got. That vote was 306-110, again enough to override another veto from Bush should the need arise.
But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., saw little need for that and planned to go ahead with a vote on overriding Bush's veto of a bill that is only 93 percent of what Congress passed. The House on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly, 316-108, to override Bush's veto, even knowing that what he vetoed was not the complete bill that Congress passed.
If the Senate overrides Bush's veto, all the other provisions of the bill except for the missing section on international food aid and trade would be law. That includes billions of dollars in new subsidies for farmers and increases in food stamps and other nutrition program for the needy amid rising grocery prices.
Still unclear Thursday was how lawmakers will deal with the missing 34-page section. The House Democrats planned to vote on passing that section again Thursday and send it to the Senate.
House Republicans used the error to plead Democratic incompetence. They said Bush vetoed a different bill from the one Congress passed, raising questions that the eventual law would be unconstitutional.
The White House also seized on the error.
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--nobody read it in its entirety before , either---
Congress just can’t help themselves when it comes to spending our tax money on their pet projects....projects that the average tax payer doesn’t even want.
Congress is a cesspool, full to overflowing with incompetent, ignorant, self-serving crap. D’s and R’s alike.
It should be sent back to the Senate again.
Profiles in stupidity.
By the way......where are they gettiing the money?
Here... see for yourself.
While my family is cutting back to make sure we have gas money,the poor get more money for food? How does that work?
Should’nt the poor have to make do with less? After all it is on someone elses dime.
Big deficit coming this year, some of it might be hidden in the federal reserve’s lack of a balance sheet and transferred next fiscal year.
LOL!
They run out like a hard-mouthed horse. You nearly have to pull their collective heads between their front legs to get them to stop.
>> You nearly have to pull their collective heads between their front legs to get them to stop.
And if their ankles break and you have to put ‘em down right there on the chamber floor, well, that’s just how it goes! ;-)
Congress up to its old tricks, creating huge problems then stepping in with confiscating remedies. Squeeze the people until they holler “Uncle”, then take over every area of our lives. All the while keeping the cap on our oil reserves as the Saudis rake in our bank accounts.
Call your Congress critters and Senate sitters! Tell them, “Shape up or ship out”!
He can't keep track of Iran's level of threat. His fellow Democrats can't keep track of the pages of their own bills.
Politicians’ number one priority is spending enough money to buy your vote with your money.
What is an unconstitutional?
My guess is that they will make the rules up as they go.
Wow, did they screw up. Time to squawk on all the pork and bad stuff in the bill.
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