please could you repost all the numbers for Congress etc....
on the latest news today.
This is in General Discussion and we need to get busy on every forum
telling people how to write the congresscritters and tell them we don't want the Constitution of the United States overridden by these dastardly twisted monsters who have crept into congress:
Sliverofhope (833 posts) Tue Feb-08-05 12:12 PM
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Bill to allow Homeland Security to nullify ANY LAW may pass From dailykos:
ALERT: GOP Bill to Suspend Laws IS MOVING!
by valabor
Mon Feb 7th, 2005 at 22:07:35 PST
The House GOP Leadership is apparently moving to pass H.R. 418, "The REAL ID Act of 2005," in the House THIS WEEK. This is the bill that would give Homeland Security the power to suspend all laws!
The Rules Committee is moving fast. From their website:
Dear Colleague:
The Rules Committee has announced that it may meet the week of February 7, 2005 to grant a rule which could limit the amendment process for floor consideration of H.R. 418, the REAL ID Act of 2005.
Any Member who wishes to offer an amendment should submit 55 copies of the amendment and one copy of a brief explanation of the amendment to the Rules Committee in room H-312 of the Capitol by 12 noon on Tuesday, February 8, 2005. A copy of the form used to submit amendments to the Rules Committee is on the back of this letter. Members should draft their amendments to the bill as introduced on January 26, 2005.
Diaries :: valabor's diary ::
H.R. 418 is the bill that contains the infamous "Section 102" -- which would give the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to waive, at his absolute discretion, any and all laws he deems necessary to waive in order to expedite construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the U.S. border. He decides what is necessary to waive! He decides the scope of his own authority, really, because his decision is NOT REVIEWABLE BY ANY COURT!
Think: Goodbye, environmental laws. Goodbye, labor laws. Goodbye, whisteblower protections. Goodbye, democracy.
Apparently, any amendment to strip this language or modify this language must be filed with the Rules Committee by noon on Tuesday, 2/8. Then the Rules Committee decides whether to allow a vote by the House on the amendment. But based on the Rules Committee website notice, it sounds like they don't want to allow any amendments: "...to grant a rule which could limit the amendment process..."
Guess who chairs the Rules Committee: Rep. David Drier (R-CA) -- the Congressman who proposed this language to usurp the rule of law in the first place! He proposed this language for the 9/11 bill last year, but it was ultimately stripped from the final bill.
Read more about this issue here. (
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/5/15448/41910 )
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This is very important.