Democrat Leadership's "Premature Gavelation" H.R. 3161 Floor Fight
"I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship."
"Bela" Pelosi famously declared during the 2006 campaign:
"You must drain the swamp if you are going to govern for the people...I intend to be very fair."Yet Democrats committed an unprecedented breach of House ethics and rules. Representative Lewis (R-CA) put forth a motion to recommit the Agriculture appropriations bill to committee,
"for the purpose of adding language prohibiting any taxpayer funds under the agriculture programs from going to illegal immigrants."A vote on the motion was held and was won (according to the vote tally board) by the Republican minority 215-213 and declared "final." In spite of the numbers reported as final on the tally board, President Pro Tempore Michael McNulty(D-NY) declared the vote a "tie" of 214-214 and gaveled the vote closed before the final tally was read.
McNulty's premature gavel occurred on orders from the Democrat leadership who knew they had lost the vote and chose to use this subterfuge of "a mistakenly early gavel" to violate the House rules.
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Well let's return to January of this year and review Madame "Bela's" ascension and the words she said. From CNN's coverage of the "momentous" event:
[Emphasis added]"Pelosi becomes first woman House speaker
POSTED: 4:28 a.m. EST,
January 5, 2007
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday, as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress.
"I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship," Pelosi said, taking the symbol of her new job from Republican minority leader John Boehner.
...Incoming House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, told reporters that Democrats would move quickly on rules changes.
"On Thursday and Friday, we're going to adopt rules that will change the way the people's House operates to ensure its integrity, to ensure its openness and to ensure its transparency," Hoyer said Wednesday."
What Steney Hoyer said way back in January has not stood the test of time. From the very outset the Democrats have made excuse after excuse to exclude Republican legislators (representing almost half of the American people) from the legislative process, by manipulation of the House rules, ruling perfectly legitimate amendments being offered by the Republican minority as out of order or by bringing legislation to the floor under "closed" rules preventing the offering of amendments.
It is not enough to say "Well, the Republcans behaved just as badly when they were in the majority." Not when you have run on the claim of "draining the swamp."
First it is not enough for Democrats to make that statement, because what happened last night has never been done in the 200+ years of the Congress. Once a vote has been gaveled closed, the voting has concluded...period. No if's and's or but's. The gavel bangs, the vote count is recorded and the House moves on to the next piece of business. Never in the history of the House of Representatives has a vote been "gaveled closed" and then re-opened so that the results are more to the liking of the majority. Never happened.
Second, when you make it your stated policy to run things with greater "integrity, openess, and transparency" [Democrat words, not mine] actions like those described above prove the lies of Democrats claim. The correct term for this is "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy in its most raw and blatant form.
Third, if nothing underhanded occurred, then why was the record of the proceedings expunged of the ensuing debate? Why did the majority leadership think it necessary to censor the official record to show only that the vote resulted in a 212-216 victory for the Democrats?
What follows is taken directly from the following link:
10:20 P.M. -
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 3161
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
10:21 P.M. -
The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
10:22 P.M. -
Mr. Lewis (CA) moved to recommit with instructions to Appropriations.
10:23 P.M. -
Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lewis(CA) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to report the same back to the House promptly with an amendment that prohibits any funds in the Act(including grant funds) from being used to employ an alien who is not authorized to be employed in the United States and prohibit any funds in the Act for rental housing assistance programs to provide assistance to an alien not authorized to receive such assistance pursuant to 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
10:31 P.M. -
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 212 - 216 (Roll No. 814).
11:00 P.M. -
Mr. Hoyer moved to reconsider the vote.
11:05 P.M. -
On motion to reconsider the vote Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 238 - 12, 55 Present (Roll no. 815)
11:07 P.M. -
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by voice vote.
11:16 P.M. -
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 237 - 18, 13 Present (Roll no. 816).
11:18 P.M. -
The Speaker announced that the House do now recess. The next meeting is subject to the call of the Chair.
H.R. 3161:
making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes
This is as grave a threat to our nation's stability as I have ever witnessed. When the majority party feels it can arrange the result of any floor vote to suit them, they have intentionally chosen to disenfranchise the American voters and the American citizens. Nowhere has this kind of behavior been seen except in the Stalinist and Maoist regimes America spent 50 years attempting to defeat.
Rather than holding the sham of voting why don't the Democrats simply dispense with voting altogether? If they have decided that the outcome of any vote will be what they want it to be then any pretense of democracy or republicanism can be dismissed. We no longer have government by consent of the governed; we have government by Democrat fiat.
Americans have spilled a lot of blood fighting against precisely this kind of behavior. The kind of behavior more commonly seen in the Gleichschaltung (Nazi restructuring) of Hitler's Nazi Germany than in an American house of Congress.
The result of this premature gavel will have lasting negative effect. Having obviously won the vote, the Republicans rejected an appeal by House Majority leader Steny Hoyer to "correct this error" by holding a revote. This was not error, this was no simple oversight; this was the dictatorial hand of Madame Nancy "Bela" Pelosi simply choosing to ignore House rules and the rights of the minority.
By the way, in case you are wondering why the Republicans were so adamant about this victory and so strong in protesting their case, I should mention exactly what it was in this Agriculture bill to which they object.
This bill strips $190 Billion dollars from Medicare aid to the elderly and our veterans to provide free medical care for illegal aliens.
That's right folks, the Democrats care more about pandering to the Hispanic community of illegal aliens than they do about our own elderly or our veterans. We, the American taxpayer are once more being asked to foot the bill for people who have come to this country in violation of our laws, who live here in violation of our laws, and who routinely flaunt our nations laws in pursuit of their business.
This is not about xenophobia, this is about asking American taxpayers to pay for the medical care of criminals.
I normally conclude with the optimistic declaration "Long Live Our American Republic!!!"
But today I feel that such an optimistic proclamation is in appropriate.
We have witnessed the gravest threat to our nation's Liberty I have seen in my entire life, including the much exaggerated alleged threats posed by Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon.
Those days were halcyon days of our nation compared to what occurred last night. Under the cover of darkness.
What do you think?
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posted by Will Malven at 9:27 AM
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