Bush vetoes bills, claims "Congress is not getting its work done"

[ProSense]

Bush: Congress is not getting its work done:

Democrats quickly fired back. Jim Manley, senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said, "Taking advice from President Bush about fiscal responsibility and getting things done for the American people is like taking hunting lessons from Dick Cheney. Neither is a very good idea."

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Fact is, important bills are being passed by Congress with veto-proof majorities. Bush has vetoed two key bills and Republicans have blocked, are blocking others.

Kerry on Senate passage of Passenger Rail Act:

“For 150 years, trains have connected America’s cities and served as much needed economic stimuli for communities across the nation. In recent years a Republican Congress stood in the way of investing in and modernizing our railways. On Tuesday, the Senate reversed this trend, fully funded the Northeast Corridor, and took steps to ensure that years into the future passenger rails will continue to get Americans where they need to go in a quick, safe, and efficient manner. This Act is a smart economic investment for our state,” said Senator Kerry. “I’m proud to be a co-sponsor and will continue to work to improve passenger rail service throughout Massachusetts and across the country.”

Roll Call (70 - 22) (another veto-proof majority):

NAYs ---22
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Craig (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)

Senate reverses Bush’s budget cuts.

By a 75-19 vote, the Senate gave bipartisan approval to a huge health and education spending bill that will likely be the first of the fiscal 2008 spending bills Democrats will ship to the White House to start a veto battle involving the budget for almost every domestic agency.

Roadblock Republicans in action:

In August, the Senate unanimously passed their bipartisan disaster relief bill (S. 163). However, Republicans in the Senate are blocking the bill from moving to the President’s desk by refusing to appoint members to a conference committee to negotiate differences with a disaster assistance bill passed by the House of Representatives.

H.R. 2: A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage. Senate roll call, 94 - 3

AMERICA COMPETES ACT (PDF): Senate roll call, 88 - 8.

Ethics Reform Bill signed into law in September.

Senate passes SCHIP - 67 - 29

Bills vetoed by Bush

H.R.976 : An act to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes. 10/3/2007: Vetoed by President.

S.5 : A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research. 6/20/2007: Vetoed by President.

Bush's nerve: worst president ever desperately trying to project failure onto Congress



Oops! Edited to add minimum wage bill.

[marmar]

1. FUUUUCKKKK him!

Who's with me?

[Froward69]

7. Second!!!

[Fridays Child]

2. Important to get this to the Greatest page.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Done. n/t

[notadmblnd]

4. congress is doing their work for the most part.

but bush and his minions are hindering them from completing their tasks.

[Vickers]

"is like taking hunting lessons from Dick Cheney"

Har!

[bdamomma]

5. * can fuck off.

this comes from a man who says "kids have healthcare they can go to the Emergency Room", what a sick man.

[asjr]

6. I wish Shrub would run away from home.

[ProSense]

8. GOP senator chides Bush on health bill

GOP senator chides Bush on health bill

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush drew unusually blunt criticism from a senior Republican senator on Wednesday for threatening to veto an expansion of children's health insurance if it contains a tobacco tax increase.

"They're throwing cold water in my face," said Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a strong advocate of the measure to add coverage for an estimated four million lower-income children to an existing health insurance program.

"The president's making it so central to the debate really is a shock to me," he added in a conference call with reporters from his home state.

Bush vetoed one children's health bill this fall, but the tobacco tax increase played a minimal role in the public debate about the measure and the subsequent failure by the Democratic-controlled House to override him.

House Democrats swiftly launched a replacement measure, and without singling out the tax increase as a problem, Bush vowed to veto that one, as well.

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[ProSense]

9. Kick! n/t

[ProSense]

10. Kick! n/t