DEMS REBEL AGAINST PELOSI - warn leaders to resume regular order »
Posted By pc25 10 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsA group of more than 50 House Democrats has penned a letter to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) imploring him to “restore this institution” and see that the House returns to a “regular order” process of legislating.
The letter, signed by a large number of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the centrist New Democratic Coalition, has not yet been sent. Members are still gathering signatures in an effort to send the strongest signal possible to all top House Democrats that the caucus is up in arms over the top-down method of legislating employed by Democrats since late last year.
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pc2510 months, 2 weeks ago
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Democratic rebellion in the House, in more ways than one
Congress just started the 111th Session just four weeks ago, and already some Democrats have had enough of Nancy Pelosi’s ham-handed tactics. A rebellion has begun to brew among moderates in Pelosi’s caucus that wants a return to “regular order”, in which the committees return to their normal process of crafting and modifying legislation instead of a select group of elites ramming it down their throats. They may draft Steny Hoyer, the Majority Leader, as their savior:
PUT A FORK IN HER SHE"S DONE.......can someone say 2% approval rating. The Dems will shoot themselves in the foot with their infighting. No leadership from the TOP and it is starting to show. Hey but what what do you want THE ONE threw a good Super Bowl Party tring to raise support for his stimulus package. Clueless as to what is going on. -
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RedRiverJ10 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA-You and Speaker Pelosi have each been quoted repeatedly as noting that the country must be governed from the middle, employing bipartisanship to solve our problems; we proudly and strongly affirm that view,” the members wrote.
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Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid govern 'from the middle', HA, that will be the day. -
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RedRiverJ10 months, 2 weeks ago
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FTA-You and Speaker Pelosi have each been quoted repeatedly as noting that the country must be governed from the middle, employing bipartisanship to solve our problems; we proudly and strongly affirm that view,” the members wrote.
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Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid govern 'from the middle', HA, that will be the day. -
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nostalgia10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Since last year, many senior House Democrats — many of them subcommittee chairmen — have grown overly frustrated with how only small and select bands of legislators have been responsible for writing bills, such as the $700 billion Wall Street bailout as well as much of the $819 billion economic stimulus bill.
Democratic leaders have acknowledged that the “regular order” process of methodically developing and writing bills in subcommittees and committees has been abandoned recently. But they have defended the handling of such sensitive and important legislation by only an exclusive group of leadership and senior lawmakers as a necessary tactic during exceptional times.
They are realizing that Pelosi and her band are actually thumbing their noses at other Democrats!
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Hhussk10 months, 2 weeks ago
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It's probably for that best that Speaker Pelosi and Reid continue this extremely poor show of bipartisanship and lack of leadership. Now that they can no longer blame Republicans and Bush, they are no longer able to hide their goals.
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