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Posted at 6:30pm on Apr. 22, 2008 House Democrats Admit Upcoming Iraq Vote All About Politics
This Dog Not Only Won’t Hunt, It’s Dead, Buried, and Decaying
By Mark I
Fresh on the heels of another wildly successful round of Congressional testimony by Iraq Commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, Democrats in Congress are going to attempt once again to bring a premature halt to the emerging victory in Iraq. Worse, this time they aren’t even going to pretend that the attempt has anything to do with the welfare troops. The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) told The Hill newspaper that Democrats in the House are deciding whether to include withdrawal language in an upcoming supplemental funding bill.
Maybe they haven’t seen that movie.
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Posted at 5:16pm on May 16, 2007 Shutting down the House
Somebody appears to have found a semblance of a spine
By Jeff Emanuel
According to a source on the Hill:
House Democrats are trying to make it easier to raise taxes, without forcing their Members to take the tough votes on the record, by denying long-held minority rights within the House.
Specifically, the source continued
The Democrat Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rule regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit (specifically on the "paygo" provisions) or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.
House Republicans have decided that they are not going to take this treatment lying down. In response, they are planning to "shut down the floor" with procedural motions at every opportunity - we have been told to "expect one every 30 minutes throughout the day."
"We don't have the filibuster," said a Hill staffer, "but we can slow this chamber down to a crawl and that's what we are doing."
There is one exception, though, said the source -- "If the House Democrats want to pass a clean funding bill for our troops, we'd be more than happy to allow that on the floor immediately."
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