[muawiyah]

must have missed something ~ revenue bills still start in the House ~ the Republicans have a majority ~ the Democrats can literally be ignored as long as that's the constitutional rule. The reason is the Speaker decides what legislation will get voted on ~ so even an amended bill sent over from the Senate gets queued up ~ and if he doesn't queue it up it's just like it doesn't exist.

If the minority can convince enough members of the ruling party to sign up, they can try to move things with a discharge petition.

This morning we are finding out from Peter King that the House didn't take up a bill to give my tax dollars to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire and Delaware on account of Hurricane Sandy.

King is mad as a wet hen. Apparently he was momentarily distracted with the Obama Tax Increase and thought they would vote for everything. Well, the next Speaker (Thursday's the day guys), may well remind New Yorkers that fiscal prudence on their part might have given them the funding necessary to take care of their own disasters!

[flaglady47]

King is mad as a wet hen. Apparently he was momentarily distracted with the Obama Tax Increase and thought they would vote for everything. Well, the next Speaker (Thursday’s the day guys), may well remind New Yorkers that fiscal prudence on their part might have given them the funding necessary to take care of their own disasters!

Once again, and unfortunately for us, the area worst hit by Hurricane Sandy was Staten Island which is one of the few Republican strongholds in the New York city area. So, withholding Sandy funding is just going to tick them off bigtime against the Pubs. Another lose/lose situation where the Pubs are put in an untenable political position.