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House Hits 1,000 Votes Mark
AP via SFGate ^
| 10/24/7
Posted on 10/24/2007 2:45:27 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- If you listen to Republicans, Democrats haven't accomplished much since taking over Congress last January, but they did reach one landmark Wednesday with the holding of a record 1,000th vote of the year.
The vote was on a bill to give self-autonomy to Native Hawaiians, extending the previous record of 942 votes in a year set in 1978. With this session of Congress expected to drag on well into December, the final figure should be far above that of previous Congresses.
"Our job is to take America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; selfindulgence; yourtaxdollarsatwork
Wasting tax dollars, over and over.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:45:29 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
993 of them were to rename post offices.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:47:18 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(FDT/2008)
To: SmithL
Does this include the votes that certain people voted for before they voted against?
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:47:47 PM PDT
by
shadeaud
To: shadeaud
Does it include voting on lunch menus?
To: SmithL
10, 100, 1000 or 100,000 votes.... my approval rating for the House is 1% positive... I cann’t recall what they did right..
For the Senate my approval rating is -22%.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:55:19 PM PDT
by
geo40xyz
((Born a democRAT, Dad set me free in 1952: He said that I was not required to be a MF'ing democRAT))
To: SmithL
Well, they’re good at “make work”, all the fluffy bills, but how many presidential vetoes have they overridden?
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:56:32 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: SmithL
RATS are padding their totals with BS non-binding resolutions and cut-and-run amendments that have no chance of passing.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:57:13 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. ---James Branch Cabell)
To: SmithL
"Our job is to take ruin America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Fixed.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:58:38 PM PDT
by
A message
To: SmithL
"Our job is to take America in a new direction, and we are working hard to do that," said Brendan Daly, spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.That direction is straight down the commode.
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posted on
10/24/2007 2:59:41 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
To: rfp1234
I think it would be informative if we could get a break down of how many of these things were actually passed-—
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posted on
10/24/2007 3:11:50 PM PDT
by
basil
(Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: SmithL
This is part of the campaign the Democrats just announced to improve their approval rating with the public... you are paying for it... Watch, this is being funded with your taxes as Democrat propaganda is pushed to their house members to be mailed out under their franking privileges.
To: SmithL
Yeah, big deal. How many of these were resolutions condemning the President or voting ‘no confidence’ on something the administration did?
Stick a sock in it, Nancy.
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posted on
10/24/2007 3:17:37 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(SPAM: best in the can and in sammiches -- not for use on computers.)
To: SmithL
“Never mistake motion for action.”
—Ernest Hemingway
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posted on
10/24/2007 3:33:54 PM PDT
by
mike h
(God bless Ronald Reagan,)
To: SmithL
The vote was on a bill to give self-autonomy to Native Hawaiians, Self-autonomy? Holy redundancy Batman!
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posted on
10/24/2007 3:44:33 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
To: SmithL
1,000 votes and they are still a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.
To: SmithL
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posted on
10/24/2007 5:44:05 PM PDT
by
Right_Handed_Writer
(Civilization is mortally wounded and something truly evil is being born to take its place(S. Coonts))
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