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Mix-up puts House farm bill veto override in doubt
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/21/8 | MARY CLARE JALONICK and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, Associated Press Writers

Posted on 05/21/2008 6:22:57 PM PDT by SmithL

The House overwhelmingly rejected George W. Bush's veto Wednesday of a $290 billion farm bill, but what should have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassing episode for Democrats.

Only hours before the House's 316-108 vote, Bush had vetoed the five-year measure, saying it was too expensive and gave too much money to wealthy farmers when farm incomes are high. The Senate then was expected to follow suit quickly.

Action stalled, however, after the discovery that Congress had omitted a 34-page section of the bill when lawmakers sent the massive measure to the White House. That means Bush vetoed a different bill from the one Congress passed, leaving leaders scrambling to figure out whether it could become law.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; agriculture; congress; farmbill; federalspending; override; pork; rats; veto
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Where's that ha-ha kid?
1 posted on 05/21/2008 6:22:58 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Show of hands.... Does anybody out there think this was an accident?


2 posted on 05/21/2008 6:24:41 PM PDT by gridlock (RNC.com wants you to know... It's OK to vote against Barack Obama...)
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To: SmithL

Idiots. Now let’s waste some more time, resend it, he can reveto it, then you can reoverride it. Yea, let’s put these fools in charge of our health care system.


3 posted on 05/21/2008 6:26:19 PM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: gridlock

Faith lives in failure.
Hope you’re right about the “accident”!
Please elucidate.


4 posted on 05/21/2008 6:26:34 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: gridlock

“Does anybody out there think this was an accident?”

Yes. Proof: Congress acted incredibly quickly in all regards so not to let this atrocity get a full airing, and have this pass as far before the election as possible. Doesn’t surprise me there was a screw-up due to haste.


5 posted on 05/21/2008 6:28:03 PM PDT by Shermy (Nightmares From My Pastor, A Story of Race and Insanity)
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To: SmithL

6 posted on 05/21/2008 6:28:26 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: SmithL

7 posted on 05/21/2008 6:28:26 PM PDT by xjcsa (Has anyone seen my cornballer?)
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To: SmithL

Worst Congress ever.


8 posted on 05/21/2008 6:29:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: xjcsa; Jet Jaguar

Yeah! That’s the one!


9 posted on 05/21/2008 6:31:18 PM PDT by SmithL (Reject Obama's Half-Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: SmithL
That means Bush vetoed a different bill from the one Congress passed, leaving leaders scrambling to figure out whether it could become law.

Makes no sense. The version he vetoed obviously can't become law, and the full version hasn't yet reached his desk. ...but he'll veto it if/when it does. So what's this "law" business?

10 posted on 05/21/2008 6:34:40 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: gridlock

I don’t think it was deliberate but that doesn’t necessarily mean it then was an accident. Instead, I think it was pure incompetence from Pelosi who is angling to get her picture in the dictionary for that word. Yes, I know she didn’t personally type up the bill but she did select the staff and it happened on her watch. She’s two heartbeats away from the Presidency and that scares me greatly. Prayers for Cheney’s health.


11 posted on 05/21/2008 6:36:52 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Just because you're running for President doesn't mean that you are the center of the universe")
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To: Mr. Mojo

Ah I see...the override. Forget it.


12 posted on 05/21/2008 6:37:12 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: gridlock
Bureaucratic snafu ... nothing more, nothing less ... nothing to see here people, move along move along, all is well .....

/sarc off

13 posted on 05/21/2008 6:38:49 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: gridlock

I think it was, otherwise we would be giving the idiots too much credit.


14 posted on 05/21/2008 6:43:41 PM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: SmithL
Its unconstitutional. But its not like the Democrats much care about abiding by its letter and its spirit. Pork's more important in Washington and for both parties, that overrides the lip service they give to the Constitution.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

15 posted on 05/21/2008 7:23:45 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: gridlock

Not an accident; a blunder.


16 posted on 05/21/2008 8:15:58 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: SmithL

Seems kind of silly. I doubt if anyone has even read 34 pages of the thing.


17 posted on 05/21/2008 8:19:01 PM PDT by Wolfie
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...an embarrassing episode for Democrats.

Not for Democrats only, I regret to say. There are not 316 Democrats in the House.

18 posted on 05/21/2008 8:23:05 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: SmithL
Bush was right to veto this measure when rich farmers and Big Ethanol is making millions. Call your idiot congresscritter and tell him or her where they can shove their override.
19 posted on 05/21/2008 10:57:06 PM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: SmithL

All Bush needs to say is vetoing this bill is a beginning to getting the economy back on track. Everything’s too lopsided right now.


20 posted on 05/21/2008 10:58:09 PM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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