http://thehill.com/homenews/house/239953-dems-wont-allow-gop-to-correct-typo-in-regulatory-bill
Republicans hoping to use unanimous consent to fix a typo in their regulatory freeze bill will hit a brick wall in the form of Rep. Steny Hoyer.
"I'm not going to give unanimous consent," Hoyer (D-Md.), the Democratic whip, said Wednesday during a breakfast in Washington sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
"You know, I'm astounded by this — absolutely dumbfounded," Hoyer quipped, "because I know the Republicans read the bills."
Sponsored by Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.), the GOP proposal is intended to prevent federal agencies from adopting significant new regulations before the nation's unemployment rate drops to 6 percent or below. The current rate is 8.2 percent.
But the bill was miswritten to say the new regulations can be adopted only after the employment rate is 6 percent or lower — meaning the nation's jobless rate would have to hit 94 percent before agencies could issue new rules.
The House is scheduled to vote on the proposal Thursday, and GOP leaders hope to fix the error with Democrats' support before then.these right wing politicians are like sharks, they smell a little blood in the water and go on a blind feeding frenzy, and like a mother bird the regurgitate it on their base. looks like they're dependence on other's to be complicit to their dirty deeds is just not paying off. i'm luvin' it.
but we can't lose sight of the fact they could pull this off which would make us the laughing stock of the world, and the mantle of democracy.
