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  Impeachment vs enacting essential legislation

  Madam Speaker - With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker -

  With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf of the American people - I have 3 questions:

  1) Which of these [** below] have you "accomplished" SATISFACTORILY on behalf of the American people?

  2) If, as you assert, filibuster [threats] by Republican Senators have stalled these - why then are you NOT now pursuing impeachment?

  3) During your & Sen. Reid's majority tenure (nearly 16 months), how many hours of functional filibuster have Republicans actually engaged in?

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  ** End the Iraq war & hold administration accountable for its failures & war's horrendous costs?

  ** Reverse Bush's failed tax policy - skewed to benefit the wealthiest?

  ** Strengthen the economy; reverse burgeoning budget deficits & trade imbalance?

  ** Effectively address climate change?

  ** Institute a viable long-range energy policy?

  ** Provide health care for ~ 50 million uninsured Americans?

  ** Remedy 37 million American children living in poverty?

  ** Protect constitutional rights; reinstate justice and the rule of law

  (FISA, habeas corpus, torture, corporate criminality, politicization of Justice Dep't, etc.)

  ** Restore balance of powers (Bush's assertions of near-monarchical powers, domestic spying,

  signing statements, refusal of subpoenas, lying to Congress & the American people, conservative activism by Supreme Court, etc)

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  Submitted by jerswing 2 years ago

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  Karl Rove

  Madam Speaker, If you're still looking for Karl Rove, he's still proudly trashing Democrats and democratic values on Fox News. Just though ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker,

  If you're still looking for Karl Rove, he's still proudly trashing Democrats and democratic values on Fox News. Just thought you needed to know in case you were finally going to arrest him for contempt of Congress.

  Any chance you could fit that into your otherwise busy schedule?

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  Submitted by needtono 2 years ago

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  War on Iran

  If G.W.B. tries to start a war on Iran, will you ask Congress to oppose him and cut off all funding which could be used for this purpose? ...more »

   

  If G.W.B. tries to start a war on Iran, will you ask Congress to oppose him and cut off all funding which could be used for this purpose?

  If he starts a war without the approval of Congress, will you impeach him or have him arrested for treason.

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  Submitted by ianccree 2 years ago

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  Are you against a transparent Congress?

  Is it true that you, as well as other Democrats, are against Congress members posting on web sites that you don't authorize? Do you pay Con ...more »

   

  Is it true that you, as well as other Democrats, are against Congress members posting on web sites that you don't authorize? Do you pay Congress's paychecks or do the taxpayers? What gives you the right to tell your co-workers what and what not to do?

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  Submitted by threeninenine 2 years ago

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  Bill legislation

  Why don't you prevent congress from having extra bills attached to any legislation? If you don't regulate that, who does? We are tired of ...more »

   

  Why don't you prevent congress from having extra bills attached to any legislation? If you don't regulate that, who does? We are tired of bills getting stopped or passed only because of other items attached to them (not talking about amendments to the bills, but attachments of other bills). Congress should be voting on bills individually, not lumped together. Most of the time these items lumped together have no relationship to each other at all. If your answer is for expediency in getting things through congress, I disagree totally with that premise. Also, why doesn't congress ever seek or heed advice from the electorate? Why don't you ask your constituency what they think about bills that are on the floor before casting your vote? Is the only thing that matters the money you receive from special interests? It sure appears that way to many of us.

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  Submitted by blaze 2 years ago

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  A Competitive Healthcare System

  Madam Speaker, The healthcare system of the country has become uncompetitive in the world market. As you must know, we spend about 1.5% of ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker,

  The healthcare system of the country has become uncompetitive in the world market. As you must know, we spend about 1.5% of GDP on healthcare services, but still have tens of millions without health insurance, leaving them to fend for themselves. Hundreds of thousands of families have gone into bankruptcy due to health problems. In most advanced countries, healthcare costs less than 1% of GDP and everyone is effectively covered. Healthcare costs are often shifted to companies, leaving their products at a competitive disadvantage on the world market.

  The only real solution to this is a one-payer system, similar to the British system. This kind of system has been proposed by Rep. Dennis Kucinich and others in Congress, yet it never seems to get to a vote. Will you use the power of your office as Speaker to make sure that this is thoroughly discussed in Congress and at least one single-payer proposal makes it to a vote?

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  Submitted by libthink 2 years ago

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  Halting Bad Policy

  Madam Speaker, You aren't fooling anyone by telling us you don't have the votes. Most of us have some notion of how Congress passes a bill, ...more »

   

  Madam Speaker,

  You aren't fooling anyone by telling us you don't have the votes. Most of us have some notion of how Congress passes a bill, and we fully well know that as Speaker you have many means at your disposal to shape those bills or stop them completely. Every bill that's come to the floor has at least your tacit approval. Therefore, we hold you fully responsible for all of those bills, including money spent to fund the war (after the American people all but demanded that you put an end to it).

  We aren't joking when we tell you that we want you to stop passing bills that favor the Republicans, the Bush Administration, large corporations and sometimes foreign governments over the interests of the United States.

  Will you promise that in the waning days of the Bush Administration that you will use all your powers of office to stop any bill that favors large money interests, the White House, or our Republican friends over the American people?

  And, will you specifically refrain from bringing up any more bills, like S. 2248 (the FISA amendment bill) that are intended to be divisive among Democrats until after a new (Obama) administration takes office in January next year?

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  Submitted by libthink 2 years ago

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  Oversight and Subpoena Power, are they worthless since impeachment is off the table?

  One of the main reasons you gave for electing Democrats in 2006 was oversight and subpoena power. Since you have taken impeachment off the ...more »

   

  One of the main reasons you gave for electing Democrats in 2006 was oversight and subpoena power. Since you have taken impeachment off the table and since the attorney general will not follow up of contempt of congress resolutions, how can congress exercise its oversight duties and what real difference has subpoena power made in uncovering the misdeeds of, for instance, Karl Rove?

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  Submitted by jcohencole 2 years ago

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  How do you intend to change your approach if Barack Obama is elected?

  Madame Speaker-- The Democratic Congress since 2006 has repeatedly "taken it easy" on the Bush administration on a wide variety of issues-- ...more »

   

  Madame Speaker--

  The Democratic Congress since 2006 has repeatedly "taken it easy" on the Bush administration on a wide variety of issues--from declaring impeachment "off the table" to the FISA vote, amongst others.

  My question, however, is not about the past, but the future: how will you, as Speaker of the House, serve to promote the DEMOCRATIC agenda, assuming that Barack Obama becomes our next President? In other words, once you have a Democratic President to work with, what POSITIVE objectives would you like to see enacted into law, and in what order of priority, in the next Congress? If you can, name the three most important things you would like to see made law by 2010.

  Thank you.

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  Submitted by christopher.lee.carlson 2 years ago

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  Will Congress pass universal health care?

  There has been a lot of discussion about universal health care in the Democratic primary, but little word from those in Congress regarding t ...more »

   

  There has been a lot of discussion about universal health care in the Democratic primary, but little word from those in Congress regarding the future of such legislation. Do you think Congress will be able to pass universal health care with a Democratic President in the White House, and how long will it take to make that happen?

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