Senate Dems' Unconstitutional Mishap Could Kill Food Safety Bill

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Wed Dec-01-10 07:33 PM
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Senate Dems' Unconstitutional Mishap Could Kill Food Safety Bill

Source: Talking Points Memo

In what amounts to an epic constitutionality #fail, Senate Democrats may have blown their chances to see their food safety bill signed into law.

The U.S. constitution requires that any revenue-raising bill must originate in the House of Representatives. To honor this provision, the Senate often finds a discarded old House bill, strips it bare, and uses it as a "shell" and passes it back to the House.

They somehow forgot to do that this time.

Now House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to figure out some procedural hocus-pocus that will allow them each to pass identical pieces of legislation before they leave for the holidays.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/fail-dems-unconstitutional-mishap-could-kill-food-safety-bill.php

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S_E_Fudd

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Wed Dec-01-10 08:40 PM
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1. Democrats have really become irrelevent,...

Even when they win they lose...

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golddigger

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Wed Dec-01-10 08:43 PM
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2. Oh for fuck sakes.

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littlewolf

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Wed Dec-01-10 09:08 PM
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3. trying not to be ugly here

But when you get elected aren't you expected to have a working grasp of the constitution ?
I mean this is high school civics stuff ....

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Better Believe It

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Wed Dec-01-10 09:22 PM
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4. They are proving themselves to be grossly incompetent.

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littlewolf

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Wed Dec-01-10 09:58 PM
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5. Or this is part of a plan ... they didn't want to pass it

and now they can say .... ooops .... forgot about spending having to originate in the house (or something like that ...)
perhaps grossly incompetent is more kind ... :D

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SlimJimmy

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Wed Dec-01-10 10:08 PM
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6. Apparently not. This is just so effing unbelievable.

"According to Hoyer, this has happened multiple times this Congress, causing severe legislative angina."

"The Senate knows the rule and should follow the rule and they should be cognizant of the rule," Hoyer scolded. "Nobody ought to be surprised by the rule. It is in the Constitution, and you have all been lectured and we have as well about reading the Constitution."

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littlewolf

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Wed Dec-01-10 10:13 PM
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7. sigh

:mad:
:puke:
:banghead:

that is all I can say ...

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