Here is a perfect example of why nothing ever gets done in Congress:
Pardon the anti Romney commercial. I hadn’t planned on that or what to do about it. I would like to avoid political ads.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) moved this week to hold a noncontroversial flood insurance bill hostage until the Senate agrees that life begins at fertilization.
The bill, which would financially boost the National Flood Insurance Program on the cusp of hurricane season, had been expected to pass easily in the Senate. But since Paul on Monday offered an unrelated “fetal personhood” amendment, which would give legal protections to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is threatening to halt progress on the legislation.
“I’m told last night that one of our Republican senators wants to offer an amendment — listen to this one — wants to offer an amendment on when life begins,” Reid said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “I am not going to put up with that on flood insurance. I can be condemned by outside sources; my friends can say, ‘Let them have a vote on it.’ There will not be a vote on that on flood insurance. We’ll either do flood insurance with the amendments that deal with flood insurance, or we won’t do it. We’ll have an extension.”
Life begins at conception during the great flood? What is Rand Paul thinking? what business does the government have deciding arbitrarily when life begins? Is that biological life? Social life? Theological life? evolutionary life? Meanwhile, flood insurance needs our attention. We have a tropical storm soon to be hurricane named Debbie bearing down on us in the Gulf of Mexico. Every year thousands of people loose everything they own as a result of hurricanes and the floods that they cause, both along the coast and inland. Meanwhile, legislation on highways, floods, student loans are halted because Rand Paul wants to attack a non-germane amendment to a flood insurance bill. Grow up Rand.
Rand Paul is awesome. The Republic should be thankful for his service.
Beg to differ. What FOOL would try to define life for starters, in a pluralistic society. Then what FOOL would try to attach it to a flood amaendment.
Marin, yoiu sure don’t mind wasting government time and tromping on other people’s belief systems. That doesn’t sound very libertarian to me. Defining life beginning at fertiliation would make taking birth control pills murder.
This does not surprise me at all. Instead of creating or working on good legislation, there are a few who keep putting on totally unrelated amendments in order to create gotcha votes.
What the Congress should do is create a rule that says that all amendments must be related to the legislation, but alas, I do not see them doing it.
@Moon-howler
Your assuming I care about his legislation. Anything to stop the government from intruding upon our lives (i.e. the government not passing new laws) is something I can support.
That’s a beauty of our system that one man can stand in front of the tank that is the US Sente and make it stop.
You find it beautiful. I find it to be obstructionist behavior. Why not send everyone home. NOthing will happen here.
That’s even better but I just don’t see that happening. See! We can agree on things!!
This is the worst congress ever. Bring back Rep Mills. He made more sense.
So, the Senate votes down the amendment in normal course of business.
Oh. Wait. Its the Reid Senate. They don’t do anything.
Never mind.
Not sure why Reid is scared of holding the vote. Maybe because he thinks it’d pass. 😉
I just realized….the title
Why nothing ever gets done in Congress
And a still picture of Senator Reid below it.
No further investigation needed.
hahahahahaha