Hastert Launches a Partisan Policy
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 27, 2004; Page A01
In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them, regardless of how many Democrats favor them.
Hastert's position, which is drawing fire from Democrats and some outside groups, is the latest step in a decade-long process of limiting Democrats' influence and running the House virtually as a one-party institution. Republicans earlier barred House Democrats from helping to draft major bills such as the 2003 Medicare revision and this year's intelligence package. Hastert (R-Ill.) now says such bills will reach the House floor, after negotiations with the Senate, only if "the majority of the majority" supports them.
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Someone has been reading their German history. This too, was a goal of the Nazi Party...the elimination of political parties and their agendas from the Reichstag.
Apparently, Hastert is a scumbag of the ilk of Tom DeLay, the roach killer [yea, that is what his business was before election to Congress.] So much for the fiction that these are good American, Christian gentlemen.
jay
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 27, 2004; Page A01
In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them, regardless of how many Democrats favor them.
Hastert's position, which is drawing fire from Democrats and some outside groups, is the latest step in a decade-long process of limiting Democrats' influence and running the House virtually as a one-party institution. Republicans earlier barred House Democrats from helping to draft major bills such as the 2003 Medicare revision and this year's intelligence package. Hastert (R-Ill.) now says such bills will reach the House floor, after negotiations with the Senate, only if "the majority of the majority" supports them.
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Someone has been reading their German history. This too, was a goal of the Nazi Party...the elimination of political parties and their agendas from the Reichstag.
Apparently, Hastert is a scumbag of the ilk of Tom DeLay, the roach killer [yea, that is what his business was before election to Congress.] So much for the fiction that these are good American, Christian gentlemen.
jay
