I guess we'll have a one-party system in six months.
What? God told you to vote? Why what ever made you think you have the right? WHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
In a naked power grab for Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has angered Republicans by pushing through a rule change to curb the GOP’s rights to affect legislation.
The rule change — approved on Tuesday, the first day of the 111th Congress — puts new restrictions on motions to “recommit” a bill to the committee that approved it in order to add new amendments.
Previously Republicans have used the rule to delay or kill legislation or to force Democrats to take politically difficult votes on such issues as gun control and illegal immigration, according to The Hill newspaper.
The new rule allows the full House to reconsider a bill without delay.
The move, which Pelosi engineered, “silences the voices of tens of millions of Americans by further shutting down open debate on the House floor and taking away the minority’s right to offer substantive policy alternatives on behalf of the millions of Americans they represent,” Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio complained.
Boehner said in a letter to Pelosi that eliminating the six-year restriction “will entrench a handful of members of the House in positions of permanent power, with little regard for its impact on the American people.”
