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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 04:51 PM
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The House today
Has anyone started a thread on what's happening in the House today?
There will probably be a vote on the Labor, HHS and Education spending bill soon. David Obey is doing a great job, but the House, with it's Republican majority will probably vote for this bad bill.

Anyone's thoughts?

Nancy Pelosi being asked various questions.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 04:47 PM
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1. Mandates to the states should be withdrawn if the money is withdrawn also
says Rep. Pelosi. Makes sense to me.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 04:52 PM
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2. Is anyone watching C-Span and the House?
Or do we figure that the worst bills keep coming from the
House Republicans and we can't do anything about it?
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 04:55 PM
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3. Amendments going down
what a surprise.

Can we clean House in 2004 please.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:07 PM
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4. Gephardt can't seem to contain some Dems on these amendments...
What the heck are you doing in the back of the room Mr. Gephardt?
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:09 PM
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5. Toomey amendment next...
Mr. Toomey wants to withhold funds from certain grants...
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:18 PM
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6. Toomey amendment not agreed to.
Wow, that was close.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:21 PM
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7. Final vote on final spending bill
Fasten your seat belts...this will be a bumpy ride.

Hope more people are paying attention to this than me. :-)
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:47 PM
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12. Final vote count?
Did I miss it? Anyone have it? What Dems voted for this?
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:50 PM
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13. 215-208
Passed. No Dems voted for it. 9 Republicans voted against it.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:25 PM
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8. Senate appropriations bill will come up later
calling for less money than House.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:30 PM
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9. When will Blue-dog Dems wake up
and figure out that Republicans intend to bankrupt
government in order to disappear human services in this country?
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:32 PM
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10. Good question from caller
How are you going to deal with what Bush wants to spend? Blue-dog
Dems says Tanner want to work with the President to get him what
he wants....

and that's why I won't vote for another Blue Dog Dem.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:43 PM
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11. Blair's coming to town...
missed the date but announced for agenda.
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NewJerseyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:55 PM
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16. Thursday
I believe Blair is giving his speech next Thursday, one week from today. I'm surprised I haven't heard about this before.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:50 PM
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14. I'm done
Thanks for your attention span.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 05:52 PM
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15. Cut AIDS Africa funds by one-third
WHILE Smirk was in Botswana giving a speech on how the U.S. was giving Africa the full amount....

Cute, huh?

:-(
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-03 07:18 PM
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17. hmmmm...I'm sure that's not all.
I hope mainstream papers note each and every spending cut
in order to give a larger tax giveaway to the really wealthy.
And of course, the AIDS funds were actually budgeted during
Clinton's term if Greg Palast is correct.
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