Thanks for the info, I try to watch CSPAN but missed this!
--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Fred B. Ellison <fbelli...@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Fred B. Ellison <fbelli...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Republicans Censored on House Floor by Pelosi - Rep. John Carter (R-TX)
To: "MLC Google Group" <missourilibertycoalition@googlegroups.com>, "Young 
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Cc: "Campaign for Liberty-SGF" <springfield...@yahoogroups.com>, "Missouri C4L" 
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"Vincent D. Jericho" <v...@ksgf.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 8:31 AM













Absolutely disgusting... Where is the media??? 








 




If you still don't think that this is a rogue presidency backed by a rogue 
Speaker, then this report will convince you that they are utterly lawless.

 


Censored on House Floor by Pelosi - HUMAN EVENTS 

 

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32718

 

 


Pelosi Censors Republicans 

by Rep. John Carter 
07/16/2009 
 



Monday night Democrats voted to shut down the U.S. House Representatives rather 
than allow a handful of Republican Congressmen to speak on the floor. What 
could have been so offensive or frightening about our discourse that Speaker 
Pelosi felt she had to protect her party by gagging free speech in the House? 

In fact, we had planned to speak on the lack of transparency of the House since 
Democrats took control. We had planned to criticize Speaker Pelosi for 
repeatedly denying Members, the media, and the public to right to read 
legislation before it was voted on. We were set to discuss House Majority 
Leader Steny Hoyer's statement last week that if his Members were required to 
read the Democrats' healthcare reform package before it was voted on, it would 
fail.

So the Speaker obviously feels that if the public is truly aware of her party's 
agenda, they will reject it. She is now making sure the public is kept in the 
dark by trampling the centuries-old democratic traditions of the House. 

What are those traditions? Every day that the House is in session, following 
the final vote of the day, representatives are allowed the privilege of free 
speech on the House floor in what is known as "Special Orders." They may speak 
for one minute, five minutes, or one hour segments, and must request their time 
in advance. Time is allocated equally to both parties on a first-come basis. 

Since the advent of live C-SPAN coverage of the House, this has provided a 
national televised outlet for both Republicans and Democrats to speak to the 
nation on topics they feel were not adequately addressed during regular order 
in the House, during which the Democrat majority has the parliamentary ability 
to limit debate and speeches. 

Special Orders therefore frequently serves as a political safety valve if the 
party in the majority becomes too dictatorial during debate, using their 
majority status to truly oppress the minority's ability to debate and offer 
amendments. 

That is now the case in the House, with the Democrat majority under Pelosi 
repeatedly rejecting House rules to ram a far-left agenda through before the 
public has time to learn what is actually in the bills. 

This is what we were committed to bring to public light. 

House rules require a bill be publicly posted for three days before it can be 
voted on. That basic rule was written by none other than Thomas Jefferson as 
part of the original rules package of the House, as it is essential to the 
survival of representative democracy. 

The House can waive that rule if it chooses on specific occasions. The 
Republican-controlled House chose to waive it when considering the Patriot Act 
in 2001 following the terror attacks of 9-11. They thought there was enough of 
a national defense emergency to just bring the bill to the floor for a vote. 

But Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats have chosen to ignore the rule on 
every major issue taken up by the House this year, including:

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - The Obama Stimulus: This one just 
had to pass that very day because time was a-wastin' in getting those new jobs 
coming. We couldn't wait for Members to read it. But then the President waited 
four days to sign it into law while he spent the weekend in Chicago, and months 
later none of the new jobs have come into existence. 

The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization (SCHIP): Speaker Pelosi 
couldn't wait on this one either, although the deadline for reauthorization was 
still two months away. 

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Lilly was peddled as covering decades-old 
wage discrimination cases, but after waiting 20 years, Congress couldn't wait 
one more day to let Members actually read the thing. 

The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009: No excuses at all on this one. 
They just didn't want the details known. 

The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009: This one has been languishing since 
last October, but we suddenly had to pass it that day. 

The AIG Bonus Tax Act: This had to get through right then, don't mind the 
details, we just had to go after those bonuses. Only when we read what passed 
after the fact, the bill contained waivers for all of the same executives the 
bill was supposed to reign in, many with curiously close ties to Treasury 
Secretary and tax cheat Tim Geithner. 

The Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009: No rush whatever on this one 
time-wise, the Democrats just didn't want people talking about the hundreds of 
billions given to foreign banks that should have gone to our troops. 

The American Clean Energy and Security Act/National Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax: 
No excuse was offered on this one, the Speaker just didn't want anybody reading 
Henry Waxman's 300 page amendment he sneaked in overnight before we were forced 
to vote. Three weeks later, the Senate shows no intention of taking up the bill 
before the opening day of dove season, if then. 

There's a reason all these bills are listed. The list constitutes every major 
policy bill undertaken by Congress this year. House Democrats are not just 
waiving the three-day rule -- they have destroyed it, and are intentionally 
pushing their agenda to the floor with blindfolds on the media and the public. 

This constitutes an astonishing and chilling acceleration of the assault on 
representative democracy that began in earnest this January. 

Representative democracy works when a U.S. Representative listens to the input 
of their constituents, and votes the way the majority of their district would 
vote. Only a Representative can't listen if no one has ever seen the bill, or 
had time to provide input. They have to vote blind, which for too many, is 
voting the way their leadership tells them. 

This is what Republican House Members were going to the floor to say Monday 
night. We were set to decry the loss of openness in the House. 

Instead, we were met with a slammed door by Democrats, who are now committed to 
burying truth along with democracy. 

The Democrats are the majority -- for now. They chose to silence debate on the 
floor by gagging House Republican Members from using their historical right to 
speak after the close of the day. But they cannot stop us from speaking outside 
the halls of Congress and letting the American public know the truth about 
their ongoing attack against the very foundations of a free Republic.


 



Mr. Carter, a Republican, represents the 31st District of Texas in the U.S. 
House of Representatives. 
  



Comment: They did the same thing with the Universal Health Care Bill this 
month. Rammed it thru the Senate in a rush and it having major implications to 
every American for years to come.  State Senators complaining all along about 
the lack of sufficient time to even read it and an incomplete cost analysis 
(COG) of what it will cost Americans. The Bill is over 4 inches in height on 8 
x 11 paper, with counter proposed amendments that stack up to over 10 inches in 
height on 8 x 11 paper and it went to Congress sometime after the Democrats 
ratified it on July 17th . So just watch how long it is before it gets rubber 
stamped into law by Congress.  








      
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