Sneak attack on gun rights

[baldeagle]

Got this in email today.

I've just received word from inside sources in the U.S. Senate.

Senate Democrats are planning to execute a sneak attack on gun rights as soon as TODAY!

Their plan is to sneak Carolyn McCarthy's Magazine Ban into law as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration Bill, a routine piece of generally non-controversial legislation.

You might want to contact your Senators and Representatives and ask them to oppose any attempt to sneak this through.

[whodat1]

That's the same bill that the Obamacare Repeal was amended to.

[Beiruty]

how does the amendment to bills work anyway? Doesn't need a procedural vote to get amended first?

[baldeagle]

how does the amendment to bills work anyway? Doesn't need a procedural vote to get amended first?

On the floor of Congress in open session amendments get introduced, debated and voted on. But amendments that are politically odious often get introduced into bills in committee and never get voted on individually. Those who know about them don't discuss them and those who, like Charles Rangel, think it's ridiculous to actually read a bill before voting on it never see it. Then, when the bill passes, the amendment becomes law without most of our supposed representatives knowing a thing about it.

That's why open government is so important. Bill should be posted on the internet, where everyone can read them. Sufficient lead time should be instituted so that the undesirable parts of bills can be exposed for what they are, which will usually torpedo them. The reason amendments are sneaked into bills is precisely because the politicians know they would never pass if everyone knew about them.

[Commander]

I checked the amendments to this bill....Nothing showing about guns.......yet