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phonyfeminazi
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 Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:46 pm Post subject: This Has to Cease..... |
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It's unconstitutional.....both parties must stop this nonsense..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1275
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Amphikalein
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| Quote: | However, this kind of end run by the House is not that unusual, according to congressional scholar Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. Mann says Congress has used self-executing rules to pass such legislation as the smoking ban on domestic airline flights, an employment verification system meant to screen out illegal immigrants and a ban on using statistical sampling for the 2000 Census.
"It's a way to manage difficult, partisan problems," Mann says.
As with reconciliation, self-executing rules have been used by both Democratic and Republican congressional majorities, Mann says. He says Congress used it 36 times in 2005 and 2006, when the GOP was in charge, and 49 times in 2007 and 2008, after the Democrats had taken control.
A 2006 Congressional Research Service report on self-executing rules calls them "procedurally imaginative" and notes that they have been used "on matters involving House-Senate relations." The CRS report says the mechanism was originally used as a way to streamline House approval of Senate amendments or to make technical changes or corrections to legislation. |
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OndinitaAKALibchit
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I'm all for it stopping...After we pass HCR! 
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