GOP Energy & Commerce Members Whining About "Regular Order" On Dems' Cimate Bill - Sad!

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GOP lawmakers are crying foul this week over a push by Democrats to quickly advance climate change legislation through committee so that it's ready for a House floor vote. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee are opposing the markup of a bill introduced last week by Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) that would bind the Trump administration to uphold the climate goals agreed to in the Paris climate accord under former President Obama.

GOP lawmakers say Democrats leapfrogged a subcommittee markup and a hearing for the measure, H.R. 9, to expedite its approval.

“It’s unfortunate your subcommittee missed out on an opportunity to mark up that measure. That would be the regular order that you’re proud of and that I’m proud of,” said Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.), the top Republican on the committee, at a hearing Tuesday. “Instead it’s going to be taken straight to full committee and straight to the floor to meet some arbitrary deadline.”

The panel is expected to vote on the measure as early as Wednesday evening. Some Republicans argue there should have been a hearing on Castor's bill before lawmakers vote on it. “No hearings on Green New Deal. No hearings on H.R. 9. For what many on the other side consider to be the biggest existential threat to our existence, they seem very comfortable abandoning the legislative process and ignoring input from all involved and impacted,” said a senior House Republican aide.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/437216-house-republicans-accuse-dems-of-ramming-through-climate-bill

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Regular order? Screw them (repugs)...considering that Mitch M and Senate decided to change...

the rules to get more of rump's appointees appointed faster? This what I call 'ramming' through crap without the benefit of the doubt considering all of the crap rump has already put through.

Also, I recall that the repugs rammed through the 2017 tax cut and jobs bill w/o holding any hearings, any testimony, anything for that matter, all for their donors, not us. What do they say about this? Nothing...cowards can't even back up any rationale as to why this bill was passed, who really gets the benefits (their 1%ers, over 83% of the benefits), and heaped on more debt onto the national debt ($4 trillion) after moaning for years about deficit spending.

[mountain grammy]

2. Regular order.. haha.. WTF is that to the GOP?

They never cease to amaze me..