Sunday Dec.11,2011

from Joel Tyner posts:
Gibson, Tonko Divide Along Party Lines on Health-Care Repeal" Albany Times-Union Jan. 19th:
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/54028/gibson-tonko-divide-along-party-lines-on-health-care-repeal/ ...yes, answer is expanding Medicare to cover everyone-- but Hinchey right here on this]
Miss this one yesterday in the Post Star?....(incredibly, Gibson voted for the REINS Act-- H.R. 10!)...

From http://prospect.org/article/legislative-stranglehold ...
Legislative StrangleholdBEN PECK DECEMBER 8, 2011
Passing the REINS bill would give Republicans the ability to veto any new regulations.
With only four Democrats voting for the measure, yesterday the House passed H.R. 10, "Rules from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny" (REINS). If it were to become law, this radical piece of legislation would prohibit all federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Securities and Exchange Commission from minting any new regulations unless they passed both the U.S. House and Senate within 70 legislative days and impacted the economy by more than $100 million. The requirement that regulations be agreed to by both the House and Senate would give the staunchly anti-government Republican majority in the House the ability to unilaterally veto any new regulations by simply refusing to put the legislation to a vote.