Gun Owners of AmericaAt GOA’s request, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has bypassed Harry Reid’s stranglehold on the Senate by bringing a pro-gun bill directly onto the Senate calendar.
The bill is H.R. 4118, and it was approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday by a 250-160 vote. (See the vote here, with “Yea” being the pro-gun vote.) The bill would suspend the individual mandate of the anti-gun ObamaCare program for one year, thus protecting the privacy of gun owners.
Normally, bills that pass out of one chamber are referred to a committee in the other chamber. But Senator Paul intervened by using a parliamentary technique to bring H.R. 4118 onto the calendar, rather than letting it be referred to a Senate committee.
Now that H.R. 4118 is “on the calendar,” this means that ANY SENATOR can now “move to proceed” to the bill, thereby CIRCUMVENTING HARRY REID’S STRANGLEHOLD over the Senate agenda.
This is huge.
It is important to gun owners because ObamaCare lays the groundwork for taking millions of Americans — those taking anxiety medications or who have PTSD or ADHD — and feeding their names into NICS’s gun-ban database.
It is important because, already, Obama, by executive fiat, has waived federal privacy laws to clear the way for these gun bans.
It is important because it forces weak-kneed senators running for reelection — senators who claim they want to “fix” ObamaCare — to vote, up or down, on whether to let 30,000,000 Americans facing hundreds of dollars of penalties off the hook.
It is important because it opens the door for “motions to proceed” to other pro-gun bills, including legislation restoring veterans’ rights and creating national reciprocity for concealed carry rights (both of which have close to 60 votes).
It is important because it allows us to compile a target list of vulnerable senators who claim they want to “fix” ObamaCare — just as Nancy Pelosi is trying to use a “discharge petition” in the House on the anti-gun amnesty bill to create a target list of GOP members.
Now, we are asking Rand Paul and other senators to begin circulating a letter of support in the Senate for a “motion to proceed” to the ObamaCare suspension, H.R. 4118.
There are procedural niceties to forcing consideration of the motion to proceed, but our parliamentary experts are working with senators to show them how to accomplish this — and to get this bill sent to the President.
Well, you might ask, isn’t Obama just going to veto H.R. 4118? GOA’s Legislative Counsel Michael Hammond discusses the answer to this question in a recent Red State piece.
But the answer is that sending H.R. 4118 to Obama would put him in a real bind. We believe that Obama will eventually be forced to delay the mandate, and that H.R. 4118 will create an inextricable conundrum for him — as it will give credit to Rand Paul (and other pro-gunners) in the Congress for having forced the issue.
https://gunowners.org/alert3102014.htm
See HR 4118 here: http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20140303/BILLS-113-HR4118-PIH.pdf
The old me would have said wow rand great work. I will vote for you. You are gonna save us all. The new me says shut up rand you are just trying to get the nomination for the repuklican party. Where was all of this when you first got in the senate? Nowhere. You wait until people start throwing your name out there for the “nomination” Don’t forget, your daddy won a lot of straw polls to. I will not vote for any of you. You all claim you will do this or that, but when it comes down to it, you just jew what you are told.
Bulldog. you are spot on. The only way to fix our national situation is to clean out our present government and start over. There IS no other way. we have heard all of this bilge before, It’s too late for mouth service. The only thing left is action,
Paul,
watch what happens though. Rand and _____ signs will be everywhere. All of the Tea party groups will sound like groupies at a motley crew concert.
I don’t doubt it a bit Bulldog. I got suckered in 08 because of my own ignorance. Aint happening again. I wont be voting until we have reestablished our republic, after cleaning out all of our domestic enemies in the wh. house and all around this great country. .
and if any of these people come to me preaching rand paul etc. they are going to get a good dose of the truth, and they aren’t going to like it.
amen brother
“At GOA’s request, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has bypassed Harry Reid’s stranglehold on the Senate by bringing a pro-gun bill directly onto the Senate calendar.”
Oh, my hero….PUUUKKEE!!!!
Oh for cryin’ out loud, when is someone gonna hang that treasonous son of a bitch and get it over with?
It’s coming NC, it’s coming. There will be no place for them to hide brother.
I’m In!!!! Can I supply the rope? knowing that I will not vote this year takes a huge burden off of my shoulders, the sleepy me actually let the outcome of elections get to me, like it was a personal blow. Now that I know it does not matter what side of the coin you flip, it is all the same, different puppet faces controlled by the same Jew banksters. Jesus turned over the money tables with a cat of nine tails, I really think he was giving us a big message there, deeper than just a thing that happened! It had significant meaning. Couple that with the book of Revelation, well we are there!
Lets ride Missy……………..SADDLE UP!!
FF,
You are 100% correct. Pass a couple bills, shut up the average joe. Unfortunately for them, America is waking up and we are pissed.
we wont be fooled. I went to Harbor freight this weekend. Rope was 50% off. I bought 200 feet to keep for a rainy day. 🙂 it aint hemp, but it will do the job.
Now that’s what I call preppin’.
I’ve got so much goddamn rope, I can’t find the rest of my supplies for it.