Posted on 08/03/2008 4:10:26 PM PDT by SE Mom
Washington, Aug 3 - House Republicans will be back on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives again Monday to continue the unprecedented protest that began last Friday, when dozens of Republicans joined hundreds of American citizens on the House floor to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosis (D-CA) decision to send Congress home for the rest of the summer without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and move America toward energy independence.
In an urgent memo sent to GOP Members and staff Saturday (A Call to Action on American Energy), Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) hailed Fridays action, which was led by Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Tom Price (R-GA), and others, and encouraged House Republicans to return to the Capitol beginning Monday morning to help keep the historic effort going.
Its not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering, Boehner and Blunt said in the memo. The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. Weve called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies.
We realize not everyone can be in Washington next week. But if you can be, we ask that you come to the Capitol, join our colleagues, and lend your voice, beginning this Monday at 10:00 am, the GOP leaders wrote. If you cant be in Washington, we ask that you contribute to the cause in other ways such as spreading the word among your constituents, writing an op-ed for your local newspaper, or taking our all of the above energy message to your local airwaves.
Republicans stand with the American people. We share their passion and determination for energy independence, and weve pledged to fight boldly until Congress heeds their will, Boehner and Blunt concluded.
Me toooo!! (rubbing hands together in gleeful anticipation)
Thank you for the toll free capitol switchboard numbers. Yes! FRegards ....
Worth repeating from johnculberson twitter!
“Cong Mike Rogers says every day Pelosi wastes America sends 50 million to Putin 200 million to Saudi Arabia 180 million to Hugo Chavez 02:08 PM August 01,”
Since we will not have live feed from CSPAN and Pelosi’s Politburo will not allow the people to record or hear anything ‘unless it is a documentary’, we should title the thread: ‘Live Documentary of House Republican Patriots Thread’ or something to that effect.
Are there any freeper constitutional lawyers that can give advice on this so we CAN use footage at least on YOUTUBE for political purposes or am I worried for nothing?
Yes— I think a LIVE thread for tomorrow would be a GREAT idea....
as for who will post it or host it...I am humbled, but it does not need to be me...
WE ALL WORKED TOGETHER ON FRIDAY!!
But you started the parade. :)
Got a call from a Utah friend that Chris Cannon is headed back to DC tomorrow as well....... no word on Thornberry from TX yet........Stay safe !
Okay, McCain needs to be there standing by all of them on camera....and Bush needs to call a special session.
Agreed! And you did it with competence, information and courtesy. You're the perfect FReeper for the LIVE thread, and it'll stay a lot more organized if there's just one thread instead of a half dozen people opening new threads and all trying to get them in breaking news. I'd also like to see all the information we need for making our voices heard all organized on the first post. It would greatly enhance the probability of people participating in the People's Business.
Hope you'll consider doing it, eevil conservative.
I didn't know that Sean picked up on this! He has 13 million listeners so this got out big time! If he will pick it up again on Monday we will get some great play out of this.
Thanks again for all you do, your efforts really make a difference.
See what you started! ;O)
Great job again EC,let’s go for another 3,000 on Monday!!
See post # 36 for Fishtalk’s excellent background on that question...
Great! The info in post #55 is very useful too. The twitter blogs were a huge help on Friday.
Guts — that’s what they have!
Fan.. FReeping .. tastic!
bttt
No problem, rod ... thanks.
It’s OUR DAMN CONGRESS & COUNTRY !!!
;)
Maybe there’ll be some FReepers there
at the House Energy Patriots gathering,.
... YooHoo .. awesome DC Chapter!
Would be so great if some could go ..
but I know it’s short notice.
I don’t know what they’ll be using- I do know Human Events will be live-blogging and I’m sure there will be others..
I pinged you to the thread on the House Rules here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055922/posts
So I’m not sure how they’re going to get around it..the Speaker rules the feed.
Un-American!
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