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Tam

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Pelosi Erases Gingrich's Long-Standing Fairness Rules
by Connie Hair

01/05/2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.

Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”

In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. These procedural abuses, as outlined in the below letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, would also include the repeal of six-year limit for committee chairmen and other House Rules reform measures enacted in 1995 as part of the Contract with America.

After decades of Democrat control of the House of Representatives, gross abuses to the legislative process and several high-profile scandals contributed to an overwhelming Republican House Congressional landslide victory in 1994. Reforms to the House Rules as part of the Contract with America were designed to open up to public scrutiny what had become under this decades-long Democrat majority a dangerously secretive House legislative process. The Republican reform of the way the House did business included opening committee meetings to the public and media, making Congress actually subject to federal law, term limits for committee chairmen ending decades-long committee fiefdoms, truth in budgeting, elimination of the committee proxy vote, authorization of a House audit, specific requirements for blanket rules waivers, and guarantees to the then-Democrat minority party to offer amendments to pieces of legislation.

Pelosi’s proposed repeal of decades-long House accountability reforms exposes a tyrannical Democrat leadership poised to assemble legislation in secret, then goose-step it through Congress by the elimination of debate and amendment procedures as part of America’s governing legislative process.

Is this what the Dems think will unite the country? Does anyone know if Nancy got this through? :shock:
 

Cal

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Tides change quickly. One event, or prolonged downturn, is all it takes to change the political make up and put that hagg back in the minority to reap what she has sewn. What goes around comes around.
 

Sandhusker

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Reader, since "my cheerleader" Tam started the Obama love-fest, let me continue with further warm regards; If I had to choose between Obama and Pelosi, I'd vote for Obama. I realize this automatically makes me a sexist, but I believe in honesty.

Pelosi needs to be sent back to SF - in a kennel.
 

backhoeboogie

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It is very likely to get much uglier. This is exactly what the terrorists wanted.

The voting majority will reap what they sewed. People are going to suffer.

We are all going to be so split that it will take a really strong leadership to pull it all back together.
 

RobertMac

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Wasn't it the Democrats that said it was patriotic to criticize the Bush Administration/opposing party?
The House will now return to the policy of eliminating the minority party from the legislative process!!!! No criticism from House Republicans will be tolerated!!! Doesn't this sound a lot like legislative policy rules for Cuba or Venezuela?????
The fate of the country is in the hands of 40 Senators!!!! God help us!
 

Mike

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Here's what Nancy thinks about fairness:

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Tam

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Sandhusker said:
Reader, since "my cheerleader" Tam started the Obama love-fest, let me continue with further warm regards; If I had to choose between Obama and Pelosi, I'd vote for Obama. I realize this automatically makes me a sexist, but I believe in honesty.

Pelosi needs to be sent back to SF - in a kennel.

OK Sandhusker cheerleading is over, what is this Obama Love Fest crack. :???:
I pity the man for picking a fool for a running mate and it's a LOVE FEST :shock:
Face it Obama is going to pay for just another example of bad judgement every time Biden is not within dirty look range. :wink:

And Yes I gave him credit for being left handed but I hope that doesn't come back to bite me as people might start hating Left hand people because Obama is one of us. :x

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh this should make you happy I heard Obama is thinking about putting all the Gitmo detainees on Alcatraz so Pelosi can keep an eye on them.

That should keep those terrorist in line, think of it would you excape if you thought she would be on your trail. :shock: :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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