Two different sources are reporting the same thing, so maybe it is true!
http://www.naturalnews.com/030588_Food_Safety_bill_blue_slip.html
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
December 1, 2010
New Questions About the Food Safety Bill
As we reported to you yesterday, the Senate passed its version of the Food Safety bill, including the Tester-Hagan amendment, by a margin of 73 to 25. Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) had previously agreed to accept the Senate’s bill in place of the House’s version (which had been approved last summer), making it likely that the bill would pass the House without changes and move on for the President's signature.
But new questions have arisen about the revenue-raising (i.e. taxing) provisions in Section 107 of the Senate bill. The Constitution requires that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives. Because the Senate violated the funding origination clause, the House may use a procedure known as “blue slipping,” which would send the bill back to the Senate to remove the revenue raising provisions or to pass a bill that had originated in the House. This opens the door for changes to be made to the bill, as well as increasing the chances that the bill dies because Congress runs out of time in the lame duck session.
Stay tuned for more information!
6 comments:
I remember from school, a 'lame duck' president was a president between the election, and the time he turned over office to his successor.
I DO understand how it works now, but it seems extremely odd to have a lame duck US president with two years left to go in his term.
It is odd and very frustrating that we have to put up with two more years of this Lame Duck President and his croneys!
Blessings,
Kelle
oh, my! i hope this is true! thanks for putting some more spring in my step this morning!
HALLELUJAH!!!
I hope it is Blue slipped and dead!! This is crazy! How people are just going along like nothing is going to change. Its gonna change big time if some people dont get their head out of the sand..
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this thing IS truly dead...
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