Posted on 08/03/2007 11:31:38 PM PDT by LdSentinal
WASHINGTON - The House Friday night unanimously agreed to create a special select committee, with subpoena powers, to investigate Republican allegations that Democratic leaders had stolen a victory from the House GOP on a parliamentary vote late Thursday night.
The move capped a day that started with Republicans marching out of the House in protest near midnight Thursday, was punctuated by partisan brawling, and ended with Democratic hopes for a final legislative rush before the August recess fading.
The agreement for a special committee was extraordinary. Such powerful investigative committees are usually reserved for issues such as Watergate.
"I don't know when something like this has happened before," said House deputy historian Fred Beuttler. He called the decision "incredible."
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., accepted GOP calls for an investigation. "I do not believe there was any wrongdoing by any member of the House. I do believe a mistake was made," he said. "And I regret it."
"We are not irrelevant here," said House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo. "Just because we are in the minority doesn't mean we're irrelevant."
GOP lawmakers had marched out of the House chamber about 11 p.m. Thursday, shouting "shame, shame" and claiming Democrats had "stolen" a vote on a parliamentary motion to pull an agriculture spending bill off the floor until it was appended with an explicit denial of federal benefits to illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at sptimes.com ...
So, if I’m keeping score correctly, the number of things on the Dems wish list from January that have gotten done is.... zero.
Am I right?
Just when you think the Republican party has shrunk to a glob of simpering jelly-fish, they pull one out.
We’ll just see how much legs this has though. From those investigations during the 1990s, I’ve learned that nearly nothing is accomplished except polishing each other’s knobs during these investigations.
I have more trust in what Al-Quaeda will do (not good for sure) over the next three months than I do this Congress (nearly positive that it will be not good).
The Democrats have managed to drive their approval rating down to 14%. Is it the lowest in history yet?
Did you know that earlier this week, the Democrats voted to take billions from the Medicare Trust Fund, force millions of seniors off of Medicare Advantage, and tax every private health insurance plan in the nation, because they were determined to provide Medicaid to illegal immigrants. They did this by overturning a law, originally passed by Republicans, requiring individuals to prove their citizenship before receiving federal Medicaid benefits.
Source?....link?
All of you...just go on holidays...you can’t even count.
There *is* the Hillary-Care-By-Increments that is the renewal of CHIP - The Child Health insurance that will cover adults to age 25, families of four that make as much as $80,000 a year, and will take money *away* from Medicare - And it will increase the odds that States will use tax funds for abortion, and cut funds at the end of life. And raises cigar tax from 5 cents to $10 per in one fell swoop!
The President is promising to veto I hope he does!
The federal government is spending $5 billion a year on the program. At that rate, it would spend $25 billion in the next five years.
The Senate bill would provide an additional $35 billion over five years, for a total of $60 billion. The House bill would provide $50 billion, for a $75 billion total.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874793/posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/health/policy/02health.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874902/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874948/posts
There *is* the Hillary-Care-By-Increments that is the renewal of CHIP - The Child Health insurance that will cover adults to age 25, families of four that make as much as $80,000 a year, and will take money *away* from Medicare - And it will increase the odds that States will use tax funds for abortion, and cut funds at the end of life. And raises cigar tax from 5 cents to $10 per in one fell swoop!
The President is promising to veto I hope he does!
The federal government is spending $5 billion a year on the program. At that rate, it would spend $25 billion in the next five years.
The Senate bill would provide an additional $35 billion over five years, for a total of $60 billion. The House bill would provide $50 billion, for a $75 billion total.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874793/posts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/health/policy/02health.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874902/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874948/posts
Looky...
Did you hear John Boehner today talking about this stolen vote and defending his "friend", McNulty? "It was an honest mistake, could have happened to anybody", etc. It made me sick to my stomach. And Boehner is a House GOP leader!
Wonder if this is meant to be nothing more than a dog and pony show....as this matter was publicized on C-Span, they have to at least make the appearance of doing what’s right.
We shall see what comes of this.
They do keep swapping M's for B's ..Changing Million$ into Billion$.
No smoking in the Capitol. Priority one.
Someone want to explain this stolen-vote thing straightup?
What was the mistake, Steny? Define wrongdoing. I demand a special prosecutor!
This smells like the dems and MSM are letting this happen so they can report it as “an honest mistake,” and then get back to REAL (i.e. Republican) wrongdoing, and say “See, we’re fair—we reported that Democrat thing.”
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