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news On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:32:26 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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This politics stuff is getting kind of fun.

When Sen. Vitter and Sen. Coburn introduced a health care
amendment
that would require all senators and representatives to be
enrolled in
the public option, they expected the Democrats to rise in
opposition.

What happened next is just RICH.

Julie Gulden's diary :: :: On Thursday, thinking Democratic
senators
would balk at the idea, Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Tom
Coburn
(R-Okla.) introduced the gimmick health-care amendment.

"The idea, broad-brush, is that whatever government option is in
the
bill, every senator and every representative should be enrolled
in
it," Vitter told The Hill. "No other possibilities, no other
choices."

"It's called leadership," Coburn said. "If it's good enough for
everybody else, we ought to be leading by example."

But Democrats called their bluff, and the Republicans wouldn't
allow
it. When Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) tried to become a
co-sponsor of
the amendment, he got the cold shoulder.

So Brown, joined by Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Barbara A.
Mikulski
(D-Md.), and Al Franken (D-Minn.), forced his way onto the
amendment
with a unanimous consent vote.

Franken: I rise and ask for unanimous consent to be a
co-sponsor to
Senator Coburn's Amendment #2789 requiring all members of
congress to
enroll in the public option. I am pleased to co-sponsor this
because
I strongly support the public option and would have no qualms at
all
about enrolling in this plan.

Brown: And it's a little curious that some of these, these two
sponsors are so much against the public option but they want to
pass
this amendment. It sounds to me like you are as serious about
going on
the public option as I am.

Franken:
Well, I talked to my wife Franny, we've been married 34 years
now, I
talked to her a couple weeks ago and I said if this thing passes
we
should go on the public option. She said absolutely.

Presider of the Senate: Without objection Senator Franken's
motion to
be a co-sponsor of the amendment is approved.

From Julie Gulden on Kos.


Franken must have been born in Kenya.

Coburn and Vitter are both idiots. They didn't bother to look one
move further on the board before they moved their man.

Kudos to Franken and Sherrod Brown.

Lets look at the the item. The Republicans come up with a great
idea. The Dem's say let us take a lot of the credit for this idea.
And the Dem majority goes along with the theft of credit.

So wanting to co-sponor a bill is "theft of credit" on your planet?

--
Nom=de=Plume


Normally the cosponsors sign on ahead of time.

Nope....

Co-sponsors may be added to a bill prior to introduction of the bill
in the Senate. Co-sponsors may also be added to a Senate bill or a
House bill immediately following adoption of the bill on third reading
or on final passage.

The addition of any co-sponsors shall be subject to the approval of
the Senate prime sponsor of the bill and the approval of any
co-sponsor who is being added.

--
Nom=de=Plume


c. Seems as if that rule is no more.



I know that the word "may" is difficult for you to understand. Perhaps
you should look it up.

--
Nom=de=Plume


I understand you have reading comprehension problems.
Let me repeat:
"At the approval of the prime sponsor of the bill"

No need to repeat, oh well... here it is anyway:

"Co-sponsors may be added to a bill prior to introduction of the bill in
the Senate."

There are obviously other ways to be a co-sponsor, since that's what
happened. So, pray tell, if the amendment was so wonderful, why wouldn't a
Senator want a co-sponsor?

I'm not sure what mental problems you have, since you seem to be denying
reality.
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Nom=de=Plume


Mental problems? That seems to be you.


As I reported the rules.
"At the approval of the prime sponsor of the bill"