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Pelosi Amendment

Posted by unitedlc 8 years, 2 months ago to Politics
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Thoughts on my newly proposed amendment? Obviously it would need to be "lawyered up" I guess, but I prefer the simplicity myself...

Any vote of “yea” by a U.S. Senator or Congressman for the passage of a law affecting any U.S. Citizen shall be understood to be an agreement of the following: 1- I have fully read, understand and agree to every word of the bill for which I am favorably voting. 2- I agree that my “yea” vote is simultaneously a proclamation of swearing under oath to the same, punishable by all applicable federal perjury laws. 3- I agree to be bound the same as every citizen to the rules, privileges, limitations, and consequences of the entire law for which I am favorably voting.


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  • Posted by NealS 8 years, 2 months ago
    Yes, definitely, "Pelosi Amendment". Maybe we should put it to popular vote right now, as congress would never pass such a thing. And add to the popular vote, "Term Limits" as a backup, to prevent future Pelosi's, Water's, Feinstein's, Reed's, etc. those that put more effort in fighting than improving government for the people.
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  • Posted by Riftsrunner 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, the current narrative I have heard is Democrat legislators are claiming they have Republican colleagues who are worried about the sanity of the President. And it seems the left leaning media are running with it in hopes of demoralizing the general public. The problem is they aren't naming names, so it seems like they are trying to wedge the Republicans apart in hopes of keeping them from keeping their majority voting block. If they can knock a few votes aside, they have a chance to gridlock the Republican agenda.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Without specific punishment language, what would keep them from not reading it? Ethics? Hahahahahahahahahaha!
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  • Posted by 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree. If I am 20 pages into a 1000 page bill, and I can already tell that it is a worthless pile of crap, I should not be forced to read the entire thing before voting No.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    CNN's Chris Cuomo kind of summed up the way liberals look at things. He said that calling a journalist "Fake News" is like calling someone the "N" word. What he doesn't understand is that "Fake News" is a jab at "actions and words used" by a journalist. Calling someone the "N" word is derogatory for the sake of being derogatory. He would have been better served to compare it to being called "racist". That would have made sense. If someone feels that are not a racist, then they could take offense to being called a racist, just a s a journalist could be offended by the term "Fake News".
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 2 months ago
    Sounds good. Obamacare would never have been passed if Pelosi would have to give up HER healthcare and take Obamacare.
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  • Posted by Davidbergeron 8 years, 2 months ago
    It would have the beneficial effect of reducing the amount of legislation that is passed.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I saw that. I could blame it on senility setting in due to her age, but her brain has worked that poorly since she first took office decades ago.
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  • Posted by Jer 8 years, 2 months ago
    I think it should be simpler yet, but without any threatening language. Any vote of “yea” by a U.S. Senator or Congressman for the passage of a law affecting any U.S. Citizen shall be understood to be an agreement to the following: 1- I have fully read, understand and agree to the bill for which I am favorably voting. 2- I agree to be bound the same as every citizen to the rules, privileges, limitations and consequences of the law for which I am favorably voting.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 8 years, 2 months ago
    i think we should end the pay and benefits for congressmen/women...it should be a voluntary relationship...if citizens like the job they are doing they can send the congress rep. one check a year for no more than $100...no PAC...during a campaign, no one can advertize more than the poorest candidate...that's for starters...incentivize them to satisfy the citizen rather than themselves..
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  • Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I caught that. Anyone who conflates Donald J. Trump with George W. Bush speaks purely from willfully ignorant malice.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He is not intimidated . He gets no respect . It is a disgrace. the behavior of the E. Warren ,Pelosi, idiots. The hatred, the race card the hipocracy it is a dead end path ,it is meltdown.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi Nickursis,
    The leftist media and democrats are filling their pants . They will pollute the air with the stench.
    The more they panic, affirms the improvements
    Ahead.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm fed up, too, but you may as well get used to all the evil clowns.
    They won't be going away any time soon.
    Resist them any way you can.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino did. Some of that Botox must have seeped into her brain.
    She probably thinks there are 57 states just because so sayeth O the Great and Powerful~well, that's what the dipstick was at the time.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 2 months ago
    Did you hear her call him Bush a couple days ago?
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am just getting so fed up with the whole circus. I am rapidly running out of any media source that is not skewing everything in a negative manner, folding facts into their lies, that I have no idea what anyone is really saying, other than what we had could not continue, and now, what we have cannot continue. There is a serious, serious case of manipulation, plotting and open war now ongoing between the libertards and coinservatives, and it seems they all want to fight over what OUR desiccated carcasses can be raped for...Such a law as brought here would seem to be like any other law today, "not applicable". Fire them all and hire the Three Stooges. Larry, Moe, and Curly made better sense than any of these morons.....sad....really...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do not envy Trump's job.
    The legislative and judiciary elements of the Jackass Party is out to obstruct everything and anything he tries to accomplish.
    Meanwhile, the lefty mainstream media is seeking when not inventing any chink in armor to thrust a dagger into.
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  • Posted by 8 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Looks like a pushed a nerve with "you dino".... ha!

    Your assessment of Pelosi's quote is my sentiment exactly.

    I didn't hear about the read the bill bill, but I am surprised it didn't get the attention it deserves! I have been hearing lately about how the repeal is going to take some time, so I have just been lamenting...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 2 months ago
    Since I consider Pelosi's "Let's pass this bill to see what is in it" (this version of that quack's quote close enough) as the most outrageously incompetent thing to come out of a politician's sewer, that amendment is very much needed since stupid is what a lib lawmaker does.
    I heard of a "read the bill bill" that was proposed by a Republican representative shortly after the unaffordable for producers Affordable Healthcare Act was passed, but that was a quaint concept that could only go quietly into the night during the O'Dummer n' Dummer Regime. :
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