Cap and Trade Bill
Charlie says:
The House Of Representatives moved with sonic speed Monday to pass the controversial “Cap and Trade Bill”. The Bill supposedly would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 17 % by 2020. It would further reduce greenhouse gas emissions 83% by 2050.
The trouble is the house introduced and passed this bill within hours. Nobody had a chance to read it.
This conflicts with a campaign promise to have sufficient time allocated so that congress, people and everyone else, could have time to read proposed legislation before it is voted on.
This is not the first time that this Democratic dominated Congress rushed through extremely important legislation. The Stimulus Package also got a rush job, only to find out later that it was filled with all kinds of pet projects and agendas, “Pork”.
It’s unconventional tactics like these that make you wonder, what do the Democrats have up their sleeves? What are they hiding?
Rich replies:
Sonic speed!?!?!?!? I’m not sure what you mean by that but I doubt Congress has ever acted with anything that could be classified as speed.
But Charlie, why didn’t you protest when the Republicans not only rammed All of their bills through, but never even allowed the Democrats to see, or participate in any debate, or allow amendements when they were in power?
There is “good” pork and then there is “bad” posk. Every piece of legislation has had both. We have elected our representatives to represent our best interests. Adding “pork” to a bill is part of that. In fact, some bills are pure “pork”. But then there are “bad” pork provisions, mostly it seems from the Republican party over the past 8 years of their reigh. Remember the Bridge-to-Nowhere in Alaska?
There were plenty of people who had a chance to read the house bill so that a decision could be made by the Repulican Representatives, unfortunately those people were the ”dirty energy” lobbyists from coal and oil companies.
Before we can start pointing fingers at our representatives for legislative misdeeds, we need to get rid of all the lobbyists that control both parties.
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Democrats and Republicans…don’t they all have the same agenda…grabbing for power and trying to hold on to it for as long as possible. Where else can those politicians get medical care at tax-payers expense? What’s the real issue here? Universal health care for the masses or curry-favoring for sustained voter count.New buzz word these days…sutained like transparency and accountability. Keep up the debates, guys, I am enjoying it as well as learning from it.