Pelosi's underhanded tactics

Revmitchell · Feb 3, 2009

Speaker Pelosi made a deliberative vote even more difficult by changing the procedural rules for H.R. 1: skipping the normal committee review process; waiving all points of order for it; limiting debate on the 1,588 page bill to only 3½ hours; and forcing a vote without any motions or changes being allowed
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http://www.worldviewtimes.com/article.php/articleid-4558/Brannon-Howse/J-Michael-Sharman

Her tactic is found here:

Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1 ) making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. The first reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed three and one half hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Appropriations, who may yield control of blocks of that time. After general debate, the Committee of the Whole shall rise without motion. No further consideration of the bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.

Attest:

Clerk.
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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:3:./temp/~c111Dz4ssf::

Why would there nee to be a rush on this vote except that she did not want to give time for the American people to see what it entailed?

ccrobinson · Feb 3, 2009

Why would there nee to be a rush on this vote except that she did not want to give time for the American people to see what it entailed?
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Indeed.

Speaker Pelosi made a deliberative vote even more difficult by changing the procedural rules for H.R.
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Didn't she complain bitterly about the Republicans changing procedural rules as they saw fit? Didn't she say that she was going to do things differently? How does this make the current Democratic-controlled Congress any more ethical than the Republican controlled one was?

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