Please help: If repukes lose what kind of laws are there to limit

[Seedersandleechers]

damage from now until January? I have been unable to find any information concerning this question.

[nickinSTL]

1. does it matter what laws are there?

They'll just ignore them, or pass new ones complete with signing statements anyway.

[liberal N proud]

2. Unless there is an emergency session, They don't meet until January 3rd

That is when the new Congress is sworn in.

[Demeter]

3. Wouldn't Put That Past Them

A little Iran or even Iraq emergency, and 2 frantic months of CYA legislation shoved through.

[Seedersandleechers]

4. That is what I was thinking too. I could not find any info on past

emergency legislation during this time. Has it ever been done?

[primative1]

5. Antiquated Thoughts ...

I admit my knowledge is still based on experiences from the "old" America (the one we used to know); but if or when the GOP tries to enact some whirlwind of bogus lame duck legislation it would appear that the existing Senate holds enough sane votes to block such efforts until January.
Fillibuster away ... on anything!
The vote results will show that we the people demand no less of them

[Seedersandleechers]

6. Thank you. Now I feel better......

[zbdent]

7. mainly because they thought they'd be riding high at this point

and Boner went with the "do-nothing" scheduling ...

Of course, that didn't stop the Repukes in late Nov 1998 from running back to DC to get the impeachment process going before they lost ground ...

[Greeby]

12. There are lame duck sessions after the election

Unless, as is looking likely, Hastert is unseated. In which case there will be no Speaker to call the House back into session

[onenote]

15. even if Hastert is "unseated", he's still Speaker until the new Congress

so he can call a lame duck session

[onenote]

14. actually, there is going to be a lame duck session

Congress will reconvene in November for what likely will be a short lame duck session during which it is expected that certain appropriations measures that didn't pass prior to the October recess will be considered.

But it will be next to impossible for any new or controversial legislation to pass during the lame duck.

[KurtNYC]

8. Also: can we pull the plug on all the pork barrel stuff theyput through?

I think we should hold hearings and make a big stink over the way they have committed tax dollars. Would help re-define the Democratic party in the eyes of moderates and fiscal conservatives (between now and 2008).

[Seedersandleechers]

9. So, if indeed this comes to pass, this time period could

be positive.

[Seedersandleechers]

11. actually, this past six years have been a nightmare. I'm just a bit

freaked....

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Absolutely none

A lame-duck Congress is still the Congress until the new Congress is sworn in.

[inthebrain]

13. Posted this on another thread; Stop thinking defensivly

How about we push the Democrats in office now and the ones newly elected to enact these? Start writing letters and presuring your reps to offer this legislation. Giving voters something to look forward to is the first step to not only getting in office but maintaining those that are there.

This should be the beginning of a four year plan. Call it the "millenial Deal" or what have you.
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I was perusing some of their candidates in other states. After Nov 7 I say we make a push for the Democrats to push legislation that;

1) Increases the minimum wage to 16-18 dollars an hour. I know most economies are local but it's time we put a stop to that. It's immoral when corporation forces labor to compete against non existent standards in other countries, the same can be said of states where the wages are lower.

In places like MA, rents are at a minimum $1000 a month (That's just for a studio). Lets not even get into mortgages. Increasing the minimum wage helps local businesses by increasing consumer spending. We could enact temp price freezes on certain items to keep corporations from taking advantage. This helps consumers who want to invest that money into their communities and spend it local businesses who have a hard time competing with the Wal Marts.

2) BRING BACK SOLAR PANELS. The movement to solar energy began in the eighties and needs to be revitalized. Offer loans so people can install them. With the savings in energy costs, consumers can pay them back in 3-7 years.

3) Investing in solar panels creates jobs!!!!! People are needed to intall them and devolpers are needed to improive technology.

4) Individual wind power for every home. See solar panels above!!!!!

Write letters to your congressmen, governors and state legislature to push this through. Getting Republicans out and Dems in is half the battle. Keeping them in office is another story!!!!

Also, ideas such as these keeps our oponents on the defensive. They like to pretend they stand for working folks? I'd like to see them fight these off and convince Americans why they don't deserve a living wage and why they don't deserve energy independence.

Think Global warming!!!! Republicans have been working overtime to convince Americans that it doesn't exist. They lost!!!!! They have also tryed convincing people that the minimum wage is not needed. They will lose that battle as well.

Once we put them down. Let's keep them down.
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