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    House Vote to Pass NDAA Violates GOP's 2010 Pledge to America - John Boehner

    House Vote to Pass NDAA Violates GOP's 2010 Pledge to America



    by Edwin Mora 7 Dec 2014, 1:55 PM PDT 114 post a comment

    Republican House members who voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) broke the 2010 GOP Pledge to America.

    Under a section entitled “Read the Bill” in the Pledge to America that Republicans penned up in 2010, the GOP promised:
    We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives. No more hiding legislative language from the minority party, opponents, and the public. Legislation should be understood by all interested parties before it is voted on.
    Nevertheless, the 1,648-page NDAA was voted on in the the GOP-majority House on Dec. 4, less than two days after the final text of the bill was posted online on Dec. 2 at 10:32 pm. The NDAA passed the House by a largely bipartisan vote of 300 to 119.
    There were 32 Republicans who voted against the bill. Meanwhile, there were 194 Republicans who voted in favor of passing the NDAA. The Republican-controlled House required the help of 106 Democrats to pass the defense authorization act.
    In the pledge, under a section titled, “Advance Legislative Issues One at a Time,” Republicans promised to “end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with ‘must-pass’ legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time.”
    Yet, an unrelated public lands package that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called a “disservice to members of the Armed Forces” was attached to the NDAA, which is considered “must-pass” legislation.
    According to Sen. Cruz, the “extreme land grab” provisions in the NDAA, include: “250,000 acres of new wilderness designations” and a “study to begin the National Women’s History Museum.”
    Incoming GOP Senator Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) told Slate that the move to the include the expansion of federal lands in the NDAA does violate the 2010 pledge.
    “It’s just ridiculous,” he added.
    Nevertheless, Lankford, Oklahoma's next Senator-elect, voted in favor of passing the NDAA in the House.
    On Dec. 4, a few hours before the House voted to pass the NDAA, CNSNews.com’s Penny Starr asked Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) whether or not he had read the 1,648-page bill.
    “I’ve been through almost every part of that bill, as it was being put together. So, trust me, I am well aware of what’s in that bill,” responded Boehner.
    Republicans took over the House in 2010 after making the Pledge to America, promising to advance conservative values and pledging "to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in its dealings," among other things.
    GOP lawmakers broke the pledge before the NDAA was passed by the House on Dec. 4.
    The NDAA clears about $577 billion in spending for fiscal 2015, including nearly $496 billion for base Pentagon programs, about $64 billion for U.S. combat operations abroad, including an estimated $5 billion for the anti-Islamic State mission in Iraq and Syria.
    It also authorizes $17.5 billion for the defense activities of the Department of Energy and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

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    Now who would be surprised that GOP leaders are dishonest, insincere and untruthful? I was'ntt born yesterday

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    Boehner Broke Pledge to Give Americans ‘At Least 72 Hours’ to Read Every Bill
    House Speaker John Boehner has broken his pledge to give Americans “at least 72 hours” to read every bill taken up by the House before it is brought to a vote on...
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    Boehner Broke Pledge to Give Americans ‘At Least 72 Hours’ to Read Every Bill

    December 8, 2014 - 5:13 PM

    By Terence P. Jeffrey
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    Then-House Minority Leader John Boehner holds the Republicans' Pledge to America at a Sept. 23, 2010 press conference. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    House Speaker John Boehner has broken his pledge to give Americans “at least 72 hours” to read every bill taken up by the House before it is brought to a vote on the floor.
    In his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2010, Boehner vowed that if he became speaker members of Congress and the American people would be given “at least 72 hours” to read all bills before they were brought to a vote.
    That promise was later repeated on Fox News and then formalized in the Republican’s “Pledge to America."

    Video at the page link:

    “They've ignored the cries of outrage from the American people by forcing a vote on bill after bill without giving lawmakers enough time to even read the bill,” Boehner complained to CPAC about the Democratic leadership.
    “If I'm the speaker next year, we're going to get the reform movement moving again in the United States Congress,” Boehner said. “One of my first orders of business would be to post every bill online for at least 72 hours before it comes to the floor of the House for a vote.”
    “We'll require every committee to quickly post the bills that move out of their committee and put those bills online so that you can read them,” Boehner said.
    In an interview with Bill Hemmer on Fox News on July 22, 2010, Boehner made this promise again.
    "Then if we're lucky enough to be in the majority, and I'm lucky enough to be speaker, I will not bring a bill to the floor that hasn't been posted online for at least 72 hours," he told Hemmer. "The American people have a right to see what happens here."
    The movement to make Congress post bills online long enough for members and citizens to read them started when the then-Democrat-controlled House took up President Obama’s economic stimulus in early 2009.
    As reported by CNSNews.com at the time, the House Appropriations Committee had initially posted a 999-page version of that bill late on the night of Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009—the day before the House was set to vote on it. By Friday morning, the text of the bill posted by the committee had grown by 72 pages to total of 1,071 pages.
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D.-N.J.) told CNSNews.com that he did not think "anyone" would have the chance to read the bill before it was voted on.
    On Friday afternoon, when the bill was being debated, then-Minority Leader Boehner carried a bulky print-out of it to the front of the chamber.
    “If all of that wasn’t enough, here we are with 1,100 pages—1,100 pages—not one member of this body has read. Not one,” said Boehner. “There may be some staffer over in the Appropriations Committee that read all of this last night—I don’t know how you could read 1,100 pages between midnight and now. Not one member has read this.
    “What happened to the promise that we’re going to let the American people see what’s in this bill for 48 hours?” Boehner said. “But no, we don’t have time to do that.”
    The next February, Boehner made his vow at CPAC “to post every bill online for at least 72 hours before it comes to the floor of the House for a vote.”
    On Sept. 23, 2010, the Republican House leadership traveled to a lumber yard in Virginia to unveil a campaign document they called “A Pledge to America.”
    “We will give all representatives and citizens at least three days to read the bill before a vote,” the forward to “A Pledge to America said.”
    A section of this pledge was titled: “Read the Bill.”
    “We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives,” said this section of the Pledge.
    What did these Republicans mean here by “at least three days?” Did they mean the same thing Boehner meant by “at least 72 hours” when he addressed CPAC?
    Yes.
    With Boehner standing directly behind him at the “Pledge to America” press conference, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R.-Utah) explained the pledge they were taking.
    “We are taking a pledge today to do a number of things,” said Chaffetz. “It starts with requiring that all pieces of legislation be available online for 72 hours—at least 72 hours—so that the public has a chance to review the legislation and members of Congress can actually read the bills.”
    In the 2010 midterm election, the Republicans regained control of the House, gaining a net of 64 seats. The newly elected Republican-majority House convened on Jan. 5, 2011. In its first roll call vote, it elected Boehner as speaker.
    In his first speech as speaker on that day, Boehner said: “Let’s start with the rules package that the House will consider today. If passed, it will change how this institution operates, with an emphasis on real transparency, greater accountability, and a renewed focus on our Constitution.”
    “Legislators and the public will have 3 days to read a bill before it comes to a vote,” said Boehner. “Legislation will be more focused, properly scrutinized, and constitutionally sound.”
    So did this new rule say the House would need “to post every bill online for at least 72 hours” before bringing it up for a vote—as Boehner had vowed at CPAC? Did it follow through on the “Pledge to America”—which Chaffetz said meant all bills must be posted online for “at least 72 hours” before a vote?
    No, it said something subtly, and significantly, different.
    It said: “It shall not be in order to consider a bill or joint resolution which has not been reported by a committee until the third calendar day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, or legal holidays except when the House is in session on such a day) on which such measure has been available to Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner.”
    Did “until the third calendar day” mean the same as Boehner’s vow to let Americans have “at least 72 hours” to read a bill before the vote?
    Not as Boehner himself has interpreted it. On multiple occasions, the House Boehner leads has called votes on major bills far less than 72 hours after the bills were posted online.
    The latest example came last week, when the House voted on the National Defense Authorization Act. This 1,648-page bill was posted online by the House leadership at 10:32 pm Tuesday night. It was approved on a roll call vote at 2:37 p.m. Thursday—40 hours and 5 minutes after its late-night posting.
    Penny Starr asked Boehner on Thursday whether he himself had read the 1,648-page bill. Now, Boehner did not repeat the rhetoric of the Republicans' "Pledge to America" about giving "citizens at least three days to read the bill before a vote."
    He said this: 'I've been through almost every part of that bill, as it was being put together. So, trust me, I am well aware of what's in that bill."
    Boehner said that if he became speaker “one of my first orders of business would be to post every bill online for at least 72 hours before it comes to the floor of the House for a vote.”
    He has broken that promise.

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    House Approves Bill to Give Apache Lands to Foreign Corporation

    On December 4th, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which included a provision to transfer 2,400 acres of Apache ancestral and ceremonial lands to a foreign mining company.
    Since time immemorial people have gone there. That’s part of our ancestral homeland. We’ve had dancers in that area forever – sunrise dancers – and coming-of-age ceremonies for our young girls that become women. They’ll seal that off. They’ll seal us off from the acorn grounds, and the medicinal plants in the area, and our prayer areas.”
    ~ Terry Rambler, chairman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe
    Prior to the House vote, the House and Senate Armed Services Committee attached a provision to the NDAA that would transfer Apache ancestral lands located in the Tonto National Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto an Australian-English mining company. Sen. John McCain (R- AZ) was instrumental in pushing to get the provision language included.
    Apache leaders learned of the inclusion of the provision to the NDAA while attending, ironically, the White House Tribal Nations conference. Republican lawmakers have tried for years to secure the transfer of these lands, but have always run into strong opposition from the San Carlos Apache Tribe and Democratic lawmakers.
    The NDAA now goes to the Senate for vote.
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