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02-29-2012, 12:16 PM
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Howdy, I'm Trespass Bill, and I'm the rootinest tootinest cowboy this side of the Pecos. Yeeeeehaaaaaa! Tell y'all whut I'm gonna...duh-huh...
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02-29-2012, 12:20 PM
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02-29-2012, 12:32 PM
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02-29-2012, 01:59 PM
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I've found conflicting info on who voted against this here
This shows two R's and one D voted against. ETA - I also found that the two bills are identical = H.R.347 & S.1794 Still nothing on Boehner. Perhaps its because he is the speaker?
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02-29-2012, 02:05 PM
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Nope. Speaker can vote. I wasn't sure either (though that didn't make sense I thought maybe...) so I looked it up.
He's only voted twice in 2012: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote...&person=400036 Weird. I really do wonder what the explanation is. They just totally left Ohio's 8th district off the list. |
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02-29-2012, 02:14 PM
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Govtrack doesn't have anything on H.R. 347 since 2/6/12
the link I posted is from clerk.house.gov - which is usually correct... (shrug)
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02-29-2012, 02:18 PM
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I wonder why so many didn't vote on this. That is their job, after all.
I never really understood why we vote someone in to represent us and then when its time to make a decision, they don't. I'm sure this had nothing to do with it being an election year.
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02-29-2012, 03:27 PM
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Well, Giffords took a bullet in the brain, so I'll give her a pass. But I though she had resigned? I'm confused.
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03-01-2012, 10:31 PM
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I just read a point by point debunking of this that I can't link to on my phone (and my landlords a dick and unplugged the Internet so no computer Internet, thank god for 3G), but, when I can go back and cite next week, remind me to put up the data. The gist is, this only slightly changes the language of EXISTING legislation. It is a little bit worse than what's on the books, and expands what's on the books to include the white house and vp's residence. As he put it, " if I were in congress I'd vote against it", but it's not egregious. At least compared to what's already law.
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