---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: paul kawika martin <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [AfghanistanPWG] Fwd: Need Help: McGovern Defecting on Supp To: afghanistanpwg <[email protected]>
I suggest we check with congressional staff on these vote switching stories. McGovern's staff assured me that he has not changed his mind. Thank you, Paul Kawika Martin Organizing, Political and PAC Director Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund (formerly SANE/Freeze) 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1020 Silver Spring, MD 20910-5643 301.565.4050 x 316 951.217.7285 cell [email protected] IM and Twitter: paulkawika http://www.Peace-Action.org http://www.PeaceVoter.org http://www.StudentPeaceAction.org http://peaceblog.wordpress.com Please fund our important work and join 100,000 other members or sign up for our free action alert list (about one email a week) at http://www.Peace-Action.org On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Robert Naiman wrote: > Spending Bills Hit House Floor on Tuesday > By: Geof Koss > CongressNow Staff > Jun 15, 2009 7:07 PM > > The House Rules Committee this evening cleared the way for a Tuesday > debate on the $106 billion war supplemental funding bill, as well as a > $64 billion fiscal 2010 spending measure for Commerce, Justice and > various science agencies. > > Aides said the House is likely to first take up the non-amendable > supplemental conference report for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan > before moving on to the C-J-S bill. Final passage has been held up > for weeks over the addition of loans for the International Monetary > Fund, the transfer of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detainees and a provision > barring the release of alleged detainee abuse photos. > > But the photo provision was stripped from the bill last week in a bid > to win support from House liberals who formerly opposed the > supplemental. One such liberal, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), indicated > today he would support the bill on Tuesday. Few, if any, House > Republicans are expected to support the bill because of the IMF funds. > > In the Senate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.), who along with Sen. > Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) authored the disputed photo provision, is > retreating from his pledge last week to filibuster the bill if it was > removed. > > “The Senator will vote for the supplemental,” a Lieberman spokesman > said today, citing the decision of a federal appeals court to stay its > order to release the photos, as well as President Barack Obama’s > pledge in a letter to fight against their release, as a reason for the > reversal. The spokesman said Lieberman will continue to press for a > free-standing bill to prevent the photos from being released. > > Senate approval is expected to follow the House. > > For the C-J-S bill, the House Rules Committee approved an open rule > requiring amendments to be preprinted in the Congressional Record. > Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), the ranking member on the panel, > complained that such a rule limited the ability of Members to offer > amendments to spending bills, which traditionally have been considered > under an open process. > > “We are really slapping the membership of this institution by > utilizing this process,” Dreier said. He noted that Democrats > complained when the Republican majority used similar rules in past > Congresses, including when Dreier chaired the Rules panel. > > However, Democrats said the restricted rule was necessary to impose > order on the appropriations process, which House Appropriations > Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) wants to complete on the House side > before August. Obey told the committee he saw “no harm whatsoever if > you simply ask Members to file their amendments ahead of time.” > > Under the rule that passed the committee, amendments filed in the > Congressional Record before the end of today’s session that are > considered germane to the spending bill will be considered. Democratic > aides said dozens of amendments are expected to be filed. The panel > rejected on party-line votes three GOP amendments to ease restrictions > on the amendment process. > > A list of amendments was unavailable, but a plan by Rep. Alan Mollohan > (D-W.Va.) to increase spending for the State Criminal Alien Assistance > Program from $300 million to $400 million is expected to win > bipartisan support. > > -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
