Posted on 12/19/2005 5:14:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
House OKs Budget Cuts, ANWR Oil Drilling
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 14 minutes ago
The House voted to cut a thin slice off federal deficits and sink oil drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge early Monday, quelling Democratic opposition in a marathon struggle ending near dawn.
The votes sent both bills to the Senate, where the GOP leadership vowed to clear them for President Bush's signature with a year-end flourish.
Bush sounded eager. "We must restrain government spending. And I'm pleased that the House today has voted to rein in entitlement spending by $40 billion, and I urge the United States Senate to join them," he said at a White House news conference.
Democrats were scathing. "As the Bible teaches us, to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship, to ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "Let us vote no on this budget as an act of worship and for America's children."
Both year-end bills were crafted to satisfy GOP conservatives who hold sway in the House and Senate. Yet both also were tempered to hold the support of party moderates whose votes are necessary for passage over opposition of Democrats, some of whom have threatened to filibuster the ANWR measure.
The Alaska oil provision was grafted onto a $453 billion spending bill for the Pentagon, a measure that also reflected conservative priorities with a 1 percent spending cut across hundreds of federal programs. Yet the same legislation included an additional $29 billion in funding for victims of Hurricane Katrina, as well as an extra installment of low-income heating assistance for the poor.
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This is the second major bible quote I've seen her make. It's just so transparently phony.
Now wait a second, what about separation of church and state? Would the voters in san-fran like you using religion like that Pelosi?
I am surprised at Nancy offending all those California Atheists by using the word God.
Someone should have fired back with the warning about worshipping the creation instead of the creator.
Democrats were scathing. "As the Bible teaches us, to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship, to ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California. "Let us vote no on this budget as an act of worship and for America's children."
I'm surprised beetles didn't start crawling out of her eyes
as her head began to spin around.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." (Genesis 1:26)
Ted Stevens tacked ANWAR onto the defense spending bill for the Senate as well.
"Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), the ranking member, for yielding me this time. I rise in strong opposition to the so-called Partial Birth Abortion Act.
Mr. Speaker, everyone in this room knows that if this Congress succeeds in this misguided attempt to play doctor, not one abortion will be prevented. This is a very sad debate today. Abortion is a failure in every respect. We want to keep them safe, and we want to keep them legal.
But when they are medically necessary to save the life of the mother or to protect her future fertility, would not one want one's daughter to have that option or one's wife? It is so sad also, because this body has been prevented from debating the Hoyer-Greenwood substitute or amendment which would declare what we all believe, that no one wants late-term abortions, and that we would only agree to this procedure in the case of life of the mother or future fertility of the mother.
So to bring charges against a doctor for saving a mother's life or her future fertility and the family that she would like to have is cruel and unusual punishment. I urge my colleagues to vote against this legislation."
Now we await the inevitable Senate filibuster.
Next they will be wanting to "recall" her
Isn't this the same woman who would have us not mention God in our public sectors? Have these people no shame? Nevermind, don't answer that.
Muleteam1
Pelosi quoting the bible. too funny.........""
I would think Pelosi with a Bible in her hands would be akin to the burning bush.
She is more phony that even Barbara Boxer. Where do these women take lessons on these topics?????
She found this passage in the in Grim's Fairy Tales version of the New Testament where the witch wants to fatten up Hansel and Gretel before EATING them!
Even funnier that she's misquoting it.
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