What's Up With The Clerk of the House?
Now, we learn that the text of the farm bill sent to the President for signature -- which he vetoed -- was missing 34-pages.
It is the Clerk of the House who is responsible for preparing the final form of the bill as it was agreed to by both Houses so that it can be passed on to the President. The bills are then signed by the Speaker of the House and by the Vice President, acting as the President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore of the Senate.
These incidents occurred during the tenure of two different Clerks, one under Republican appointment and one under Democratic appointment. The errors may reflect the complexity of modern legislation, which can have hundreds of amendments and run to hundreds of pages. Who knows if these are the only such incidents?
The current farm bill sunsets on Friday; Congress should have sufficient votes to over-ride another promised veto, since the Republicans swarmed to the election-year Christmas tree. President Bush had vetoed nine bills before this one; Congress has only been able to muster votes for one over-ride.
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Clinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html
If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
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It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…