Never Mind The Committee’s Rules, The Party Rules Here
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
When you can’t work through the process as the agreed to rules of operation have spelled out – you forget the rules and the Party in charge passes the bill without the participation of the minority members of the committee. For those of us in the West, we need to express our appreciation for Senator Max Baucus for his vote in opposition to the tax increase legislation.
The members of the minority party had wanted to receive an analysis of the proposed legislation, but the chairman of the committee, Senator Barbara Boxer had dictated that the analysis for the House Bill (not the same) would be good enough – what does costs and impacts matter anyway?
Instead of the members of the minority party selling out and trying to work out compromises, the Party should just ram and jam like they appear to want to proceed.
In spite of the actions by the one Senate Committee to pass their version of the tax energy legislation, others in the Senate are suggesting that maybe things should wait until after the 2010 election for movement. This is an interesting perspective that might make you wonder whether the Party have all the “yes” votes that they would need to pass the bill…again a very good reason for the members of the minority party to not get too carried away with selling out American citizens with a needless and misguided tax increase on carbon-based energy.
When you can’t work through the process as the agreed to rules of operation have spelled out – you forget the rules and the Party in charge passes the bill without the participation of the minority members of the committee. For those of us in the West, we need to express our appreciation for Senator Max Baucus for his vote in opposition to the tax increase legislation.
The members of the minority party had wanted to receive an analysis of the proposed legislation, but the chairman of the committee, Senator Barbara Boxer had dictated that the analysis for the House Bill (not the same) would be good enough – what does costs and impacts matter anyway?
Instead of the members of the minority party selling out and trying to work out compromises, the Party should just ram and jam like they appear to want to proceed.
In spite of the actions by the one Senate Committee to pass their version of the tax energy legislation, others in the Senate are suggesting that maybe things should wait until after the 2010 election for movement. This is an interesting perspective that might make you wonder whether the Party have all the “yes” votes that they would need to pass the bill…again a very good reason for the members of the minority party to not get too carried away with selling out American citizens with a needless and misguided tax increase on carbon-based energy.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 11/5/2009 7:58 AM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: U.S. Senate Climate Change
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: U.S. Senate Climate Change
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