House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error(That Dang Constitution)

Roll Call ^ | 11/30/10 | John Stanton

[Revel]

A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.

By pre-empting the House’s tax-writing authority, Senate Democrats appear to have touched off a power struggle with members of their own party in the House. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to the House, but House Democrats are expected to use a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, according to House and Senate GOP aides.

The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats, who sought Tuesday to make the relatively unknown bill a major political issue by sending out numerous news releases trumpeting its passage.

[puppypusher]

I’ll believe it when I see it.This Government has gone out of control and has violated the Constitution of this country in every way imaginable and they have had NO Judicial repudiation yet.

[phockthis]

let’s hope so!!!

[prairiebreeze]

bump for later

[SecondAmendment]

HCR was passed as a “shell bill” in which the house version which was passed by the senate had nothing at all to do with health care. Its original launguage was completly replaced by the senate’s version as an amendment. Even worse, the house version of HCR sent to the senate was never voted on at all.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Ping.

[Eagle of Liberty]

That seems to be true.

LOL! Thanks for the ping.

Strangely, I don't feel a warm fuzzy feeling yet. This is a House that pulled draconian procedural manuevers to get Obamacare through.

[thethirddegree]

The bill should have originated with the House. That’s means its dead.

I thought this as well--but I read someplace that the House version was passed last year. I hope it has to go again in front of the new House and suffers a defeat.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Sen. George Voinovich [R, OH] Aye

He has already been replaced. He is a lame duck Senator throwing up his last middle finger salutes to Ohio and America. Ohio is a very big Agri state and Voiny is a wuss. Doesn't surprise me at all that he voted for this POS.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Essentials for Human existence:

Water
Food
Fire
Shelter
Medicine

Big Gov has its greedy hand in all of these!

[Eagle of Liberty]

Ok, so they screwed up. But judging by the comments in here, it`s a “who gives a damn if our food is safe to eat!” attitude. I swear, conservatives can be just as insane as liberals, sometimes.

So, our food ISN'T safe to eat and this is NOT a power grab?

[GailA]

My commie rep will vote for it. My RINO senator Alexander co-sponsored the crap.

Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard
(866) 338-1015

[Kozak]

[Blue Highway]

He is one of the bigger RINOs actually and I wonder why ANYONE would rally around a guy like that, especially FReepers.

Going by my list most of the RINOs performed as expected, just like Democrats.

[sickoflibs]

Laugh of the day ping!

This was going to be Obama’s big lame duck congress bi-partision victory and Harry Reid screwed it up for him. You gotta love it!

[Blue Highway]

I had to look up Sen. George LeMieux [R, FL] as I don't recall him ever getting elected, to find out he was the weasel Crist appointed to fill in for Mel Martinez. As far as I'm concerned he is a Rino and he looks like Huckabees's twin.

These guys are like glorified rats, figuratively and literally.

[Liz]

Harry Reid screwed up Obama’s Food Safety bill----damn Dems still can't get the Constitution right.............

As Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) recently said:
"This Is Why the People Have Thrown You Out."

[Gilbo_3]

Do the Rats really care about the constitution when they have a lame-duck chance to forge remove another link in our chains?

sorry to pick a nit, but thats more of our reality...

[Gilbo_3]

heheheh...papaw 'drank' his eggs every morning for 60 yrs and never had a problem...

how did we 'evolve' for 80-hundred-bazillion yrs if food is too dangerous to eat without supervision ???

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Harry Reid screwed up Obama’s Food Safety bill——damn Dems still can't get the Constitution right.............”

What Obama has been doing to get around this requirement (that tax bills originate in the House) is to get Pelosi to pass the Senate tax bills like Obama-care as-is. I have also seen Reid take DOA bills passed by the House, gut them and amend them with the new tax provisions. That way they technically originate in the House. In this case the House Democrats are really upset with the Senate Democrats for letting so many of Pelosi’s great bills die, like Cap and tax and are showing it.

The constitution is irrelevant to elected officials, beyond using the term as a political weapon to attack the other party. They sometimes worry what the courts will do, but that is it. Each minority party accuses the other but then ignores it when in power.

There is a conventional wisdom supported by the MSM that the party that gets things passed wins no matter how they do it. But we saw with Obama-care that this was NOT true, the bribes in the bill help make it poison.