HR 589 was swept aside using Clause 2 (c) of Rule XXI as the legislation would have created new unfunded law as an attachment. I was the first to blame Barbara Lee for not knowing the rules but in all truth and fairness, I’m sure she did. The fact is these rules are routinely waived for issues, oh like, defense expenditures.
Though the House Resolution 589 is not completely dead in the Ways and Means Committee it certainly must be considered to be in its death throes. The bill at present has 67 backers but would require 283 to bring it forward.
Thursday’s jobs report showed 410,ooo new jobless claims indicating that all the talk about job recovery is just more lies.
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