Senator Gregg Letter on how to block health care

[Boxerfan]

Source: C-span release

We, the minority party, must use the tools we have under Senate rules to insist on a full, complete and fully informed debate on the health care legislation – as well as all legislation – coming before the Senate. As laid out in the attached document, we have certain rights before measures are considered on the floor as well as certain rights during the actual consideration of measures. Every Republican senator should be familiar with the scope of these rights, which serve to protect our ability to speak on behalf of the millions of Americans who depend on us to be their voice during this historic debate.
I hope you find the attached information helpful. If you have any questions, please contact my communications office at 202-224-6011.:
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Reading of Amendments and Conference Reports in Entirety – In most circumstances, the reading of the full text of amendments may only be dispensed with by unanimous consent. Any Senator may object to dispensing with the reading. If, as is often the case when the Senate begins consideration of a House-passed vehicle, the Majority Leader offers a full-text substitute amendment, the reading of that full-text substitute amendment can only be waived by unanimous consent. A member may only request the reading of a conference report if it is not available in printed form (100 copies available in the Senate chamber).


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Read more: http://www.c-span.org/pdf/sengreggletter.pdf

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So this is the Republicans grand plan of attack-more obstruction?- I say go for it & make the bastards do real fillibusters-I'll buy the popcorn!

[47of74]

1. What Harry needs to do is say to these butt wipes that

Health care will get done. If that means working weekends, holidays (including Christmas) and into all hours of the night then that will be done. If they want to play these filibuster games, then they better be goddamn well ready to read from the phone book because this notice of filibuster shit isn't going to be done anymore.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Nuclear option, then make them work every day to repeal and repair all laws/taxes/bennies

that the Republicans have systemtically destroyed for the last 20 years.

Then watch the real citizenry wake up and see that the country is really ours again. The snobbish, the elites, the celebrities, and the others will see themselves paying taxes to support the social safety nets.

Imports should be tariffed approximately. War tax should be invoked on the rich. Draft should begin, and the rich assholes' kids should be first to be drafted.

There, end of war, end of debt, and certainly the end of the Republicans.

[47of74]

5. And such kids should be heading into actual combat...

...not champagne units where they could follow in W's footsteps and keep Texas safe from too much beer. Also females should be drafted too.

[Betsy Ross]

2. Do we need to phone his communications office to ask questions?

I mean, since he gave us the number and all. Oh, but we may have too many questions and take up all the phone lines. Well at least it's not a voter assistance line that someone could jam to tilt election results. And it wouldn't bring down a web site. Just give us the opportunity to get answers to all our questions about Senator Gregg's healthcare plan.

[midnight]

3. I encourage them to read too. I just wish they would of done this with the

patriot act.