Thread: Reid to finish defense bill in lame-duck, drawing GOP rebuke

The Hill
Reid to finish defense bill in lame-duck, drawing GOP rebukes
By Alexander Bolton - 09/16/10 05:23 PM ET

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) does not plan to finish the defense authorization bill until after the election, freeing Democrats to debate taxes before Nov. 2.

Reid has told colleagues he plans to take up the authorization bill and consider an amendment to add the DREAM Act, which allows certain children of illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. before the age of 16 a path to citizenship.

Reid has also said Republicans would have a chance to vote to strike a provision from the authorization bill that would repeal the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, which bars gays from serving openly in the military.

But he said Thursday it would be difficult to address other GOP objections in the three weeks of legislative work time left before the election.

“I am going to work with Senate Republicans on a process that would permit the Senate to consider these matters and complete the bill as soon as possible, which likely will be after the recess,â€

That's the golden period for bad and unpopular legislation.

Remember when Obama Care got unleashed?

It was passed in the Senate on Christmas Eve!!!!!

Dixie

LOL Harry, after november 2, you yourself are going to be a lame duck because you are going to be sent back home to nevada. where you have screwed over many people

Yes Dixie. They can do all sorts of terrible things in that period. Mr. Obama can sign Executive Orders and do who knows what.

Do these people have a care for the nation, or is it all about power, greed, and pandering to the groups they need to keep their cushy jobs and rule down on the rest of us?

Jeremiah 29:11, it is written, For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

[quote]“We will take up certain amendments that are on his agenda and then in a lame-duck session we might consider other amendments,â€

Reid wants his fellow Dems to take the coward's way out----he knows they would be dead meat to do those things before the election. We need to blow the cover on this strategy, so there is no hiding place for them.

[quote="LawEnforcer"][quote]“We will take up certain amendments that are on his agenda and then in a lame-duck session we might consider other amendments,â€

amendment banning the use of secret holds in the Senate.

What's a secret hold?

Originally Posted by jamesw62

LOL Harry, after november 2, you yourself are going to be a lame duck because you are going to be sent back home to nevada. where you have screwed over many people

thats what im thinking, this a$$ klown needs to be unemployed as fast as possible.

Originally Posted by SentinelFangirl

amendment banning the use of secret holds in the Senate.

What's a secret hold?

I posted something on that.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-212512.html

Dixie