Jr_Bullit
11-18-2004, 09:44 AM
Yesterday these two articles hit the shelves? :)
House GOP Acts to Protect Chief (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18house.html?hp&ex=1100840400&en=5cce1f5739814c85&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
Excerpt: Spurred by an investigation connected to the majority leader, House Republicans voted Wednesday to abandon an 11-year-old party rule that required a member of their leadership to step aside temporarily if indicted.
Republican lawmakers "fixed the rules so that Democrats cannot use our rules against us," he said.
"Today Republicans sold their collective soul to maintain their grip on power," said Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip. "They unabashedly abandoned any pretense of holding themselves to a high ethical standard, by deciding to ignore criminal indictments of their leaders as reason for removal from leadership posts in the Republican Party."
Senate approves $800B additional Debt (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18debt.html?oref=login)
Excerpt: Faced with the prospect of a government unable to pay its bills, the Senate voted on Wednesday to raise the federal debt limit by $800 billion.
Though an increase in the debt ceiling was never in doubt, Republican leaders in both houses of Congress postponed action on it last month, until after the elections, to deprive Democrats of a chance to accuse them of fiscal irresponsibility.
With no end in sight to the huge annual budget deficits, which hit a record of $412 billion this year, lawmakers predicted on Wednesday that the new ceiling would probably have to be raised again in about a year.
I swear - we're as bad as the Tories vs. Whigs back in...late 1700s or so England
House GOP Acts to Protect Chief (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18house.html?hp&ex=1100840400&en=5cce1f5739814c85&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
Excerpt: Spurred by an investigation connected to the majority leader, House Republicans voted Wednesday to abandon an 11-year-old party rule that required a member of their leadership to step aside temporarily if indicted.
Republican lawmakers "fixed the rules so that Democrats cannot use our rules against us," he said.
"Today Republicans sold their collective soul to maintain their grip on power," said Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the Democratic whip. "They unabashedly abandoned any pretense of holding themselves to a high ethical standard, by deciding to ignore criminal indictments of their leaders as reason for removal from leadership posts in the Republican Party."
Senate approves $800B additional Debt (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/politics/18debt.html?oref=login)
Excerpt: Faced with the prospect of a government unable to pay its bills, the Senate voted on Wednesday to raise the federal debt limit by $800 billion.
Though an increase in the debt ceiling was never in doubt, Republican leaders in both houses of Congress postponed action on it last month, until after the elections, to deprive Democrats of a chance to accuse them of fiscal irresponsibility.
With no end in sight to the huge annual budget deficits, which hit a record of $412 billion this year, lawmakers predicted on Wednesday that the new ceiling would probably have to be raised again in about a year.
I swear - we're as bad as the Tories vs. Whigs back in...late 1700s or so England