The World's Greatest Deliberative Body?
Senators will have little time to review immigration bill
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The word on Capitol Hill today is that the Senate expects to give members the text of the immigration bill late Friday, with a cloture vote slated for Monday. The bill is expected to run 1,000 pages or more. How fast does the average senator read, much less deliberate?
Remember, nearly three weeks ago, 15 Republican senators asked for at least a week to review the bill. They wanted the bill to be made publicly available online.
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Be wary of legislation passed in a hurry under cover of night.
this tome that was introduced on day one, rushed through Congress on days two and three, and signed into law on day four.
At least some in the house are quesy about putting Calvert on Appropriations.
FOr this to pass, 20% of the GOP Senatorial caucus would have to approve it. And from what it sounds like it will have weakened enforcement than last year's bill.
Thanks John McCain (and your lap dog Lindsey Graham).
Romney or Fred.
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I am not a John McCain fan but I have refrained from any accusations beyond why I would not prefer he not become president. However, this one bares pointing out.
On Fox News, Sen Ted Kennedy was on telling us how wonderful the immigration bill that was just negotiated, how wonderful it is for America. Guess who was in the picture with him? That's right .... John McCain
Rush was even mentioning it in his show.
It isn't a good day for his campaign, only I fear he doesn't realize it, especially in light of the "reduced border security" that was negotiated.
Amazing.
"Wubbies World" - MSgt, U.S. Air Force (Retired): "Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know." -Jer 33:3-
Couple of ideas to stop this:
1: Shut down the House. Minority party can do this. Absolute stop until (mc)amnesty bill is killed.
2: Support impeachment of Senor Bush if he signs this. Treason is pretty good argument to support impeachment.
3: Demand Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney to attack against amnesty. They must make a stand today. Next week is too late.
4: Let them now that you are not going to give a dime to those who support amnesty.
5: Call in offices, Rush and every talk show you can think of.
He set out to purposefully with Kennedy to craft an amnesty bill. Heck, I - EVEN I - would give him a pass if he screwed up. He didn't. He's defending MF to this day. He's defending open borders as I type.
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CongressCritter™: Never have so few felt like they were owed so much by so many for so little.
The Dems want to rush this through overnight, yet they always ask for one-week delays before voting on Bush's judicial nominees who've been studied in minute detail for months. Hmmmm....
support Tancredo, that would be clear
Molon Labe!
I wonder how many Republican senators would sign a personal or business contract without first reading it. It would be interesting to know how many will vote in favor of this bill without first reading it. I hope that those who don't have time to read it will vote against it but I won't be holding my breath.
Yes, they would, or at least most of them would, vote for or against a bill without reading it, and I don't necessarily disagree with them.
Once upon a time I was working for the Republican majority in our legislature on some very complex legislation. As was their wont, when the bill came to the Senate floor, the minority dumped a bunch of last minute amendments on us. We recessed for a caucus and the Leadership invited me into the causus to go through those amendments with the majority. One senator saw me there and asked the President why I was in the caucus, admittely something pretty rare, and the President replied that I was going to go through the amendments with them so they could take a caucus position on each of them. The Senator replied that that was all well and good, but he didn't need to read them or know what they were about, he just had to look at the sponsor's name to know how to vote. I think you'll find that to be the most common form of "Bill Analysis." Unfortunately, Congressional Republicans don't have that kind of caucus discipline.
In Vino Veritas
in the current form it's in during a radio interview on WVNN yesterday. He stated that there was not enough time between now and the Memorial Day recess, for a bill that has not even been written yet, to be properly reviewed. He further stated that the Powerpoint presentation was an improvement over last sessions bill but had points in it that he wanted to work out.