Southwest Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt is objecting to the elimination of legislative rules that allowed the minority Republicans to squeeze out some legislative victories with creative maneuvering.***
The Democratic Majority voted to eliminate the rules Tuesday.
One change would prevent the minority from sending a bill back to committee for burial.
READ THE Associated Press STORY for details on the CHANGES.
Blunt claims, "the new rules repeal term limits for committee chairman, consolidate power in the hands of a few and attempt to silence Republican input on key policy debates, in addition to making a mockery of the Democratic leaders' promises of presiding over an open Congress."
"We were victims of our own success," said Blunt. "It was the only tool available to us and we used it to great success."
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One change would prevent the minority from sending a bill back to committee for burial.
This, sir, is not true at best.
The motion to recommitt sends the bill back to committee where it can be discussed.
One thing you might have missed over the past two years is a nasty tendency Pelosi has to just stick bills out on the floor without any hearings in an effort to push the bill through.
You also failed to mention how the rule changes strip out multiple transparency provisions established back in 1994.
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