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House near vote to admonish Wilson

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090915/ap_on_go_co/us...

His first apology wasn't enough. I say let's make him apologize every day for the next 30 days and get nothing done so our experience with congress doesn't change.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    funny thing is he didn't breach protocol....

    Wilson, R-S.C., [could get off on a technicality] on that score [because Congress was meeting in a special joint session] for Obama's speech on Wednesday, [not under the House's normal rules of debate.]

    ["It doesn't violate House rules because the House wasn't in (normal) session,"] said Donald Wolfensberger, director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

    [Wolfensberger noted that under regular rules, House lawmakers wouldn't be allowed to stand and cheer as they frequently do at presidential speeches before Congress. ]

    House Parliamentarian John Sullivan agreed that the House's rules on debate probably don't apply to the incident. But he and others said the House has wide latitude in interpreting its general code of conduct that says "a lawmaker shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives."

    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_health_care_...

  • Golfer
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The left like to make a big deal out of any GOP. Has Charlie Rangle apologized yet?

    Did the left apologize for booing Bush?

    If I was Wilson I would get up and say: I apologize to the American people for not speaking out sooner--I apologizes for congress failing to read the stimulus package and I apologize to Mr Obama because it is Nancy Pelosi who keeps the illegal amendment in the the bill thus she continuous to make you a lair.. I will apologize if you veto the bill as written.

  • 1 decade ago

    The Dems and now even the Reps are just playing game on all of us.

    Look this up:

    Becoming a New Party member requires some effort by the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will have a "visible and active relationship" with the party.

    The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was known as electoral "fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties.

    Source(s): The party's spring 1996 newspaper boasted: "New Party members won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary). The paper quoted Obama saying "these victories prove that small 'd' democracy can work." The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not members but specifies Obama as a New Party member.
  • faizah
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    He should have voiced his disapproval after the speech, not during it. But who hasn't done things and worried about the consequences later.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Agreed. Once was enough. Free speech.

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