Posted on 11/05/2009 8:58:05 AM PST by BobMcCartyWrites
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) appeared on Fox News Channel this morning (see video) to discuss the unprecedented actions taken by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) this morning. According to Inhofe, ranking member of the committee, Senator Boxer reported out S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer climate change bill, without one member of the minority party present, a clear violation of longstanding committee rules.
Soon after making his appearance on Fox, Senator Inhofe issued the following statement about Senator Boxer’s actions:
“I am deeply disappointed by Chairman Boxer’s decision to violate the rules and longstanding precedent of the committee,” Senator Inhofe said. “The Republicans offered a clear path forward to a bipartisan markup, but it was summarily rejected by Chairman Boxer. Instead, she decided to ignore the entreaties of all 6 ranking members from Senate committees with some share of jurisdiction over climate change legislation, as well as leading moderates in the Senate. Her action signals the death knell for the Kerry-Boxer bill.
“As was written recently, the Kerry-Boxer bill is ‘bad policy’ that ‘resembles the failed climate proposals of the past.’ It is time for a different approach, one that grows, rather than shrinks our economy, creates, rather than destroys jobs, and strengthens, rather than weakens our energy security. We can do this by encouraging development of all of America’s vast energy resources.”
To read previous posts about the Kerry-Boxer bill and what it means for Americans, click here.
You know just thinking about that, they can stick it where the sun Does not shine.
Just S.O.P. these days in Congress.
Now Do You See How Your Friends Across The Isle Treat Your Fellow Republicans!!!
It would sure help if Senate Repubs didn’t roll over like whipped dogs and allow this type of thing to happen. Saying “I’m terribly disappointed ...” just doesn’t cut it. Bringing Senate business to a halt with disruptive tactics does. We are at war. The other side knows it and pulls no punches. Our side seems to think bleating is more than adequate.
When voters in PA, W VA, TN and other coal states go to the polls next year, I hope they will remember how the Democrats railroaded this bill through to ruin the economy with their bogus “climate change” bill.
And hopefully, CA will be the state that suffers most from its disastrous effects on business.
We the People need to storm the gates of Congress and take the damned place back.
Boxer, another Brooklyn born liberal, sorta like Bella Abzug, with the same mind set.
Northern Florida regiment standing by.
When are we going to learn that the rules NEVER apply to the libs????
If the rules don’t apply to THEM, then, they don’t apply to US.
THEY are the ones forcing this confrontation onto the rest of us.
It would sure help if Senate Repubs didn’t roll over like whipped dogs and allow this type of thing to happen. Saying “I’m terribly disappointed ...” just doesn’t cut it. Bringing Senate business to a halt with disruptive tactics does. We are at war. The other side knows it and pulls no punches. Our side seems to think bleating is more than adequate.
Thanks.
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American Thinker ^ | November 4, 2009 | Marc Sheppard
It seems Boxer cited a “provision in the rules” she claims allows her to proceed as long as a majority of committee members are present. Not that I don’t trust her, although I most certainly do not, but I thought a quick trip over to the EPW rules site for a look-see was in order.
Now, according to Rule 2 of the committee rules: [my emphasis]
“At committee business meetings, and for the purpose of approving the issuance of a subpoena or approving a committee resolution, one third of the members of the committee, at least two of whom are members of the minority party, constitute a quorum, except as provided in subsection (d).”
And it appears to be the language of subsection (d) that Boxer is attempting to play games with:
“No measure or matter may be reported to the Senate by the committee unless a majority of committee members cast votes in person.”
From a layman’s reading, one would surmise that although the bill can be reported out of committee with a simple majority, at least 2 Republicans need be present to consider any amendments. In which case, Boxer’s decision to continue markup sessions without minority representation would be as illegal as it is unprecedented.
Interestingly enough, Boxer’s deployment of the “nuclear option,” as many Republicans are referring to it, didn’t seem to bother Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — the first Republican to endorse the bill. He and Senators Lieberman and Kerry just finished discussing the Bill before cameras, yet Graham said nothing about the Democrats’ impropriety. As it was, after all, his inexplicable turncoat actions that enabled Democrats and the MSM to stamp the now meaningless label “bi-partisan” on this disastrous legislation, surely something should have been said about this breach in EPW rules.
Prior to gaveling out for today’s lunchtime recess, Boxer repeated numerous times that she intended to abide by the rules.
The question is: Whose rules – those of the committee or those of the climate-hysterics currently controlling it?
“The question is: Whose rules – those of the committee or those of the climate-hysterics currently controlling it?”
Rules? We don’t need no stinkin rules.
and...
However CA goes..so goes our economy.
Thanks for helping Miss ALLABOUTMEkittymyrib. It's just sooo easy to throw the rest of us workin' our butts off out here to change things, under the bus.
You need to get all those broad brushes out of your paint box and remember we are ALL in this together, fighing a COMMON CAUSE.
No surprise here. The Democratic communists RAT party are destroying America.
HOw about Inhofe just tell the truth about global warming and man-made climate change and how it is just a big hoax to steal the wealth of the productive?
I’m sick of politicians’ meely-mouth BS talk.
Buck up dude. Your state is a crap hole just like mine is becoming. Stop your whining.
IIRC, the Dems were just as petty the last time they were in the majority.
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