Looks like they are planning a Religious Retard Rally this summer.
House Leaders Plan Long List of Votes in July Aimed at Pleasing Conservatives
By Susan Ferrechio, CQ Staff
House GOP leaders say they plan to take up a series of bills next month favored by the Republican Party’s socially conservative base, including a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage (H J Res 88).
GOP leaders said they also plan floor action on a series of tax cuts, including the child tax credit, “marriage penalty” relief and tax incentives for those who adopt children.
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the bills will be spread out over the three weeks between the return from the weeklong July 4 recess and the start of the much longer August recess. The legislation includes top priorities of groups such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
“Through this agenda, we will work to protect the faith of our people, the sanctity of life and freedoms outlined by our founding fathers,” Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a written statement. “Radical courts have attempted to gut our religious freedom and redefine the value system on which America was built.”
House leaders, along with some members of the 50-member, highly conservative House Republican Values Action Team (VAT), met earlier this year with advocacy groups to get their input and assure social activists that their priorities would not be ignored.
The meeting shaped the agenda, Blunt said, and it was announced Tuesday “both to give our outside friends a chance to work on it and to let the members know before they go home for the district work period that this is what we’ll be taking up.”
The bills on the July floor-action list include a ban on human cloning (HR 1357) that has been at the top of the VAT wish list since the start of the 109th Congress.
House leaders announced they also plan to take up other VAT priorities, including a bill requiring those who perform late-term abortions to inform patients that the fetus feels pain (HR 356) and legislation that would prohibit monetary damages, costs or lawyer’s fees from being awarded when state or local officials are sued over public expressions of religion (HR 2679).
Also on the July list:
• A bill (HR 5092) that would give the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives more tools to police gun sellers, short of revoking their licenses.
• A bill (HR <4777) that would apply current gambling laws to the Internet.
• A bill (HR 5013) that would prohibit governments from using federal funds to confiscate lawfully possessed guns during emergencies.
And for good measure, Hastert’s list includes a bill the House passed by voice vote Tuesday. That bill (HR 42) would forbid condominium associations, cooperative associations and residential real estate management associations from having policies against the display of the U.S. flag.
House Leaders Plan Long List of Votes in July Aimed at Pleasing Conservatives
By Susan Ferrechio, CQ Staff
House GOP leaders say they plan to take up a series of bills next month favored by the Republican Party’s socially conservative base, including a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage (H J Res 88).
GOP leaders said they also plan floor action on a series of tax cuts, including the child tax credit, “marriage penalty” relief and tax incentives for those who adopt children.
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said the bills will be spread out over the three weeks between the return from the weeklong July 4 recess and the start of the much longer August recess. The legislation includes top priorities of groups such as Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.
“Through this agenda, we will work to protect the faith of our people, the sanctity of life and freedoms outlined by our founding fathers,” Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a written statement. “Radical courts have attempted to gut our religious freedom and redefine the value system on which America was built.”
House leaders, along with some members of the 50-member, highly conservative House Republican Values Action Team (VAT), met earlier this year with advocacy groups to get their input and assure social activists that their priorities would not be ignored.
The meeting shaped the agenda, Blunt said, and it was announced Tuesday “both to give our outside friends a chance to work on it and to let the members know before they go home for the district work period that this is what we’ll be taking up.”
The bills on the July floor-action list include a ban on human cloning (HR 1357) that has been at the top of the VAT wish list since the start of the 109th Congress.
House leaders announced they also plan to take up other VAT priorities, including a bill requiring those who perform late-term abortions to inform patients that the fetus feels pain (HR 356) and legislation that would prohibit monetary damages, costs or lawyer’s fees from being awarded when state or local officials are sued over public expressions of religion (HR 2679).
Also on the July list:
• A bill (HR 5092) that would give the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives more tools to police gun sellers, short of revoking their licenses.
• A bill (HR <4777) that would apply current gambling laws to the Internet.
• A bill (HR 5013) that would prohibit governments from using federal funds to confiscate lawfully possessed guns during emergencies.
And for good measure, Hastert’s list includes a bill the House passed by voice vote Tuesday. That bill (HR 42) would forbid condominium associations, cooperative associations and residential real estate management associations from having policies against the display of the U.S. flag.
