Don’t they have to send it back to the House?
yes
Yes, but apparently Reid and Pelosi will work things out behind closed doors. So much for C-Span and transparency.
That said, here is what normally happens: we see a bill we hate. We call, email, fax, write. Congress ignores us and passes the bill anyway. We give up the fight, feel dejected for a few hours, then continue on our merry way. We have accepted the inevitable and become obedient sheeple to more, intrusive, abusive big government. After all, they must be smarter than we, the people.
THIS CANNOT HAPPEN THIS TIME!
From now until November 2010, we continue emailing, calling, visiting, faxing, going to town hall meetings, writing. We continue protests in D.C. and all cities across the U.S.A, especially the state capitols. We have to keep the pressure on. Why? Because the American people - you know, “We, the people” - must be awakened. Because it is they who are needed to vote most of this incorrigibly-corrupt Congress.
http://pushbackuntil.com (especially http://pushbackuntil.com/Mandates.htm) specifies what laws we need passed to ensure that our country continues to exist. Because Congress has placed us in such a deep hole fiscally, and it appears that absolutely none of them - do not listen to what they say - is doing anything to solve that problem.
Oh - and we have to have conservatives run for these offices. If we just sit around complaining, we will get what we have been getting for decades. So either run or help someone you know run. Get commitments from those seeking you vote that they will not just go to Congress or your state legislature and passively watch bills come up for vote - they have to have the courage and determination to methodically and gradually REPEAL big government’s intrusions (social security, cap and trade, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, mandates on insurance companies, corporate welfare, insane debt, unlimited spending, and so forth). Donate time and money. Talk to your neighbors and friends. Act! And pass on the http://pushbackuntil.com URL so everyone knows the plan and the way to execute that plan.