Stupak Democrats to lose committee seats

by: Chris Bowers

Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 13:02

A new statement from Majority Leader Steny Hoyer:

"The Leaders expect all House Democratic members to support this historic bill, and to do so without demanding new restrictions on women's rights" the spokesman said in an email. "There will be situations where we have some disagreement, but those Members who held the party's top legislative priority in order to send women's rights backward, it was a very serious matter and one that the Steering Committee will consider."

Pretty impressive. Good to see Democrats starting to enforce some party discipline in order to stand up for core values.

Or, this is another lame April Fool's joke, comparing how Republican House leaders are actually threatening to revoke committee seats over something as minor as earmarks, but Democrats won't take action against the most serious instance of legislation hostage taking the party has experienced in a decade.

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Rep. Rahall (WV-03) and Natural Resources Committee (?) (0.00 / 0)

It's a totally unrelated committee to reproductive freedoms, but I'm sure there's some non-mining state Reps. who would love the excuse to put someone who is more environmentally friendly on all issues in charge of that committee.

Overall, I think Rahall's been pretty good leading that committee except for the rather predictable support of one of his district's major employers.

I wonder if Hoyer's statement is also a warning in advance for climate change legislation.

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by: WVaBlue @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:11:53 PM CDT

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steny hoyer? (4.00 / 1)

I would go with the April fools joke explanation

by: The Big Hurt @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:19:31 PM CDT

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You know what makes me sad? (4.00 / 1)

I wasn't fooled even for a moment, because the scenario was much too implausible.

by: Steve LaBonne @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:22:11 PM CDT

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Same (0.00 / 0)

my April's Fools senses are probably getting too honed. Takes some of the fun out of it.

I also smelled it when reading fladem's Quick Hit about how Bill Nelson is quitting the Democratic Party... which he wrote fully believing the post about it at mydd, and deleted after realizing he'd been had. (Personally, fladem, I think you should've kept it up and claimed you were perpetuating the joke -- I never even thought otherwise until you said so.)

by: illissius @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:59:48 PM CDT

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Chris ... (0.00 / 0)

if this isn't some kind of April Fools thing .. you need to fix the link to Hoyer's comment

by: Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:25:17 PM CDT

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You can thank me later. :-)

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by: WVaBlue @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 12:28:45 PM CDT

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Ha (4.00 / 2)

Pretty good, though the best April Fool's gags are the ones that are at least borderline believable.

by: david mizner @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 13:07:27 PM CDT

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you got me (4.00 / 2)

If only it weren't a joke.

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by: desmoinesdem @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 14:44:49 PM CDT

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April Fool's Jokes Aside (0.00 / 0)

Stupak seems to have been quite populist and anti-corporate in his role as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation. Who remembers this line of questioning?

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by: Anthony de Jesus @ Thu Apr 01, 2010 at 16:59:24 PM CDT

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can we start a whip count of the caucus? (0.00 / 0)

We need at least 10 to sign a petition according to the rules and put it to a vote. i think it can be done. HCR was too big to fail, maybe this can be our avenue.

by: bay of arizona @ Fri Apr 02, 2010 at 12:24:07 PM CDT

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