US Congress bans France, Germany, Russia, Syria from rebuilding Iraq

Agence France-Presse | April 4, 2003

[mwl1]

Correct me if I am wrong, I thought the House amendment was stripped from the Senate package.

[nicmarlo]

I don't know the status; but this is how it works: if a bill starts in the House, they finalize it and send it to the senate. If they make no changes and approve it, off it goes to the President for signature (I'm being very general here).

If the senate makes changes/marks it up, and approves the Bill, as amended....it then goes BACK to the House, for approval (or further mark up). If the House accepts the changes made by the Senate, then it goes to the President for signature.

However, if the House makes changes to the Senate version---that's the part I'm not positive about, but I think it needs to go back to the Senate, yet again for approval, before it can go on to the President for signature. (It's been years since I've taken political science, but I think this is the very general workings of a bill (begun in the House; if begun in the Senate, the workings are the same, it just starts with SB instead of HB, of course).

In this particular bill, I don't know the exact status.....I'm sure another FReeper is more up to date on this.

[coder2]

Proposed by Minnesota congressman Mark Kennedy, a Republican unrelated to the famous Kennedy clan

Geez --- can I finally be proud of my state ??? Loved the note that Rep Kennedy was not one of THOSE Kennedys !!!

Seriously, Mark Kennedy is a good guy, in the last election, he weathered a bitter, vile, hateful & lie-ridden campaign against him.

[nicmarlo]

Roll Call

--- NAYS    12 --- 
Blumenauer
Grijalva
Paul
DeFazio
Kucinich 
Sanders 
Farr 
Lee 
Watson 
Flake 
Lewis (GA) 
Woolsey 

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks there are less California Rats than I thought.

[nicmarlo]

there are less California Rats than I thought.

Funny, though, how it's usually the same names that keep popping up on anything anti-American, pro-Castro, pro-Chavez....they are nothing but a "cluster bomb" themselves.

[Gerfang]

Uh, shouldn’t the decisions as to who rebuilds Iraq be made by the democratically elected government of a free and united Iraq and not the US Congress?

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Excellent!

[patent]

Uh, shouldn’t the decisions as to who rebuilds Iraq be made by the democratically elected government of a free and united Iraq and not the US Congress?

If you and I go into Best Buy and I offer to buy you a computer, but am only willing to buy you a Dell, you do not have the right to force me to buy you a Sony. If the Iraqis want the French to rebuild them, they can pay for it themselves. No reason the American taxpayers should be forced to do so.

We already paid for the exorcism.

patent  +AMDG

[Grampa Dave]

Lazio and Waxman have heavy concentrations of Jewish voters. Lazio is a hawk in this war. Nostrilitis Waxman has toned down his rhetoric.

Woolsey is an out and out socialist/communist. We of the Woolsey clan wished she would go back to her maiden name.

[texson66]

"No soup for you!!!"

[sheik yerbouty]

LOL!

[Zon]

Thank you. You beat me by a long shot. I just got back from other business.

[Gerfang]

If the Iraqis want the French to rebuild them, they can pay for it themselves. No reason the American taxpayers should be forced to do so.

I have no problem with that. My point is that the Iraqis should have final say as to what happens in their country. That is one of the objectives of the war, isn’t it?

I take a dim view of legislation that treats Iraq as a province to be ruled from Washington.

[patent]

I take a dim view of legislation that treats Iraq as a province to be ruled from Washington.

This legislation doesn’t do that, it only states “that none of the funds made available in the bill” can be spent on French stuff. Its a simple statement, it we are writing the check, this is whom the check will be made out to.

patent  +AMDG

[nicmarlo]

yw; glad to help out.

[nicmarlo]

Woolsey is an out and out socialist/communist. We of the Woolsey clan wished she would go back to her maiden name.

Yes, I've been learning just how much of a commie she is; and what is her maiden name?

[struwwelpeter]

I'm not putting the nekkid chick eating soup up again, so there! ;-)

[babygene]

"I have no problem with that. My point is that the Iraqis should have final say as to what happens in their country. That is one of the objectives of the war, isn’t it?"

As long as they are spending our money, they should have no say what so ever. As the old saying goes, "beggers can't be choosers".

[Salvation]

GOP bump to the top!