All House Legislative Activity Suspended Following AZ Shooting
- Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:34pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Via The Hill:
House Republicans are postponing a vote to repeal the healthcare law scheduled for next week after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Arizona.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a statement late Saturday that “all legislation currently scheduled to be considered by the House of Representatives next week is being postponed so that we can take whatever actions may be necessary in light of today’s tragedy.”
“Further information relating to a revised House schedule will be released tomorrow,” Cantor added.
He said he had spoken with leaders of both parties before making the decision.
The House was scheduled to vote on the healthcare repeal bill on Wednesday. That was the only major piece of legislation scheduled for the week. The House had planned to debate the bill Tuesday and is scheduled to be out of session Monday.
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Comments (73)
AuntiEm
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 7:39amI was wondering why only the democrats in the house were invited to a conference call?
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:05pmBecause it’s Washington politics are usual. They aren’t interested in reaching across the isle.
Report Post »nottrollingguys
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:26amPlease, people. This is a tragedy. This is not politics. This is a madman committing a terrible deed. I beg of you, put down your hatred and rhetoric if only for a few moments and instead pay your respects to the victims of this event.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 8:30amYes, the Arizona shootings are a tragedy… A mad man did commit a terrible deed… But, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Fox News, The Tea Party, etc are being blamed by the liberal media… If you really believe “This is not politics”, you are a fool…
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:55amAlthough I would hope the LEFT doesn’t, I fully suspect the LEFT will attempt to use the circumstances of this event to pass legislation to restrict everyone’s Constitutional Rights.
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:07amThey can’t introduce a bill to the floor unless Boehner allows it. Obviously you are confused.
Report Post »jagr1850
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:49amreally should continue business as usual ….no reason to stop the congress
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:42amI believe WhiteTeaParty is ready for the rubber room.
Let’s ignore the FACT that the suspect Jared Loughner, listed on YouTube amongst his “Favorite Books”, Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. The FACT that the suspect Jared Loughner, had a Diary on the Daily Kos as BoyBlue are not considered when you spew your filth.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:32pmI understand that they are putting things on hold out of respect for the Congresswoman. God speed for a full & speedy recovery. God, even though I don’t agree with all of our representatives, please keep them safe. And, please, God bless those who respond to this site. Open the hearts of those who are filled with hatred & spite & fill them with love.
Report Post »designbyinspiration
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 2:21amAmen!
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:05pmIt is sick and disgusting how Media Matters, Huffington Post, etc..jump on this with insults blazing..and false claims just to get their .00000125 of a second of “fame”…People are dead, and families are hurting, lives have been destroyed and all the “LIBERAL BLOGGERS” ETC can do is insult people who differ then them politically…They ignore what has been brought up that the person who caused all this pain was one of their own beliefs, and political leanings….
Report Post »NOTROCKETSCIENCE
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:47pmYou dont have to look to far to know who has been calling for violence lately. The Dems needs to put a gag in Pivens, Jones, and all the rest of the hate mongering, Olberman spewing far-left.
Report Post »Texas woman56
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:31pmI don’t understand why the vote was put off, okay maybe out of repect and because of the shock to everyone. Well if you listened to Shep. Smith, he said it will not pass the Dem. senate or the pres. So I guess there is not reason to even vote. Maybe they are going to vote because, We the People put them there to get rid of Obamacare. We, the American people can not live our lives afraid of what a crazy person on the right or left is going to do. We have to save this country for our children and grandchildren.
Report Post »We all need to pray for the injured and family of the killed. We also need to pray for our country.
dizzyinthedark
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 7:17amWith all due respect to your question about ‘why’ vote on O’commiecare. Once the Senate rejects this then Barry will veto.
This will bode ill for his re-election and the person elected in 2012 will kill this Commiecrap finally, once and for all, throwing it out with the trash! End of this nightmare!
In essence Barry signs his own ‘death sentence’ of never being re-elected and never going down in history as ‘the one who gave us health care’. But, he is trying awfully hard to go down in history as ‘the one who destroyed America’!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:24pmThe dems will now use this against the rep house to try to persuade them to go along with gun laws or net laws or hate laws they will do something ratty this i know.There is always a method to their rabid madness.Was this an attempt at bottoms up?or top coming down?tearing the country inside out.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:21pmyes
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:20pmUgh! I think its time to move to mars. I‘m ashamed to share the same planet with White Tea Party and I’m pretty sure we’re cooked as a republic and there really is nowhere to escape to. So mars sounds pretty good
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:47pmOh no! Don’t run out on us…we need you! but if you do….please wear a helmet…
Report Post »Afungi
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:32pmI’m pretty sure white tea party has picked his/her name not because it believes in the constitution but because it is a slander and a deceiver. Like a shill at an auction, a deceiver.
Report Post »If you go to Mars ware a space suit and dress warm I hear the low air pressure really sucks. You think with all the CO2 it would be warmer so much for that theory.
You are the majority this person is the twisted minority.
takethehighground
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 6:29pmSorry, but I tend to agree, the cause is lost. The U.S. is not going to change. Money corrupts, power corrupts, and we are all slaves to a system that cant be fixed. Repubs and Dems both have been compromised. End of story…
I’m not a big promoter of this whole “lets go to war now and start a revolution” talk. However, I will be honest and say it wont be long before that happens. Apparently we haven’t learned from our basic high school history/civics classes and as the saying goes, history repeats its self.
Report Post »countrygirl
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:59pmWhitetea, that‘s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:54pmAccording to news, they are looking for an older man supposed to be involved with the shooter. Also a note left by shooter.
And maybe it is just me, but that sheriff from Tuczon is not very professional.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:43pmIt’s not just you .. that sheriff should be fired for that RANT!
Report Post »Gail
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:51pmI understand why they are holding off on the vote……but at the same time…..this seems to reward bad behavior. It’s one of those things where no matter what you do…..they will say it was wrong.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:49pmDelaying things is backing down to pressure and the press. I had hoped for more. (Sigh)….same old, same old again…..
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:47pmSheriff Dupnik, Pima County, AZ, just gave the most partisan,
Report Post »unprofessional press conference I have ever witnessed by a
member of law enforcement. Just stick to the facts man.
APatriotFirst
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:57pmTY, I thought it was just me……..
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:35pmI think the sheriff was having a “guilty conscience” moment. There was no security there. They knew that she had problems with threats…a policeman or woman should have been there. The sheriff is looking to blame anyone but himself. I’m not blaming him personally….but they should have checked to make sure there were no problems.
Report Post »LastManStanding1
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:46pmAll our prayers and good thoughts should go tot he victims of this senseless act of violence.
Report Post »Rebs2Cents
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:46pmWhile I do not like to see a delay in the work of the peoples house, I understand that many involved may have funerals and/or bedsides to attend. I’ll reserve judgement on the decision until I see the new schedule.
Report Post »CameronIL
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:43pmWhiteTeaParty, you must a freakin idiot. Only one mentally ill person is to blame here.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 1:14amNo there are a lot of mentally ill liberals to blame here, they have used outcome based education to pervert the public school system into a tool to produce noting but mentally ill falsely educated freaks, the last 40 years of their destructive plan is finally producing the results they have worked so hard to achieve.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:43pm2 Years too late.
Dang woodchucks, chucking my wood.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:42pmSomehow I don’t see why the shootings in Arizona make it necessary for the house to delay the vote to repeal obamacare…
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:53pmI believe she is a member of the House of Representatives.
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:03pmYes j.c., and there are 434 other house members that should do what we (the people) have elected them to do…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:41pmI agree the safest place for them is IN CONGRESS …. they should vote .. she voted for it in the first place they should “spot” her vote to keep it and let the others vote … sorry but do your job .. everyone else is expected to go back to work and suck it up when anything happens.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:41pmdo you think if the dem’s were still in charge of the house they would do this or would they have said she would want us to go on with our agenda?
Report Post »LastManStanding1
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:49pmI think it was said, by the current Administration, “…never let a crisis go to waste….”
Report Post »STUBBYK
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:03pmOh I think the Dem’s are all holed up in a back room some place trying to think up ways to derail the vote.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:41pmPaul Krugman, Lawerence O’Donnell ,Markos Moulitsas and others got exactly what they wanted. Stopping the Repubs by any means necessary by using lies or violence.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:39pmExactly .. and point the finger at the other side … typical .. projection.
Report Post »chasbronson
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 9:59amI noticed this “projection ” thing some years back, but didn’t know what to call it .Thanks to the poster for giving this sydrome a name. How I noticed it works is : a thief thinks everyone else is a thief.He automatically projects his thieving thoughts onto everybody elses persona,convinced they are guilty of thievery all the while condoning or even denying the fact that he ,or she is a thief in reality.The wierd thing is that if someone steals from him ,or her,They consider it a crime punishable by death.The liberal mind set is PRECISELY wired this way in all regards.They have decieved themselves into thinking their warped mind is somehow superior to all others.
Report Post »WhiteTeaParty
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:38pmSarah Palin should be held responsible for the death of 6 other wonderful Americans.
Sarah Palin placed a map and put cross hairs next to several politicians whose policies she disagreed with, including Representative Giffords.
Sarah Palin should be sued and it should cost her millions of dollars she is collecting in speeches that rile up her supporters.
Rebs2Cents
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:44pmWhiteTeaParty, do you really not see the simple use of targets as a method for “targetting” disctricts that you want to be politically succesful in? Are you really so close minded and opposed to ideas that you would use law suits to attempt to shut down free expression in this country?
I’ll pray for you, and the victims.
Report Post »AzCowboy
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:45pmWhat the hell is wrong with you white tea. Lets blame someone right away.
Report Post »jH…
J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:49pmNo, she should’t. Like the one interviewer said the use of that kind of symbolism has been around for years. Using that thinking, cars make people drive drunk, spoons make people fat and pencils misspell words.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:50pmShut up idiot.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:52pmWTP….. here is your map from liberals targeting the repubs.
http://michellemalkin.com/
Both maps show who each side wish to defeat by VOTING them out of office. Crosshairs and Bullseyes
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:54pm@WHITETEAPARTY:
Maybe he was an Obama supporter:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
-Barack Obama
Report Post »what4
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:54pmanother liberal troll using the tea party to enrage readers…..
Report Post »countrygirl
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:00pmThat‘s about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, though there’s lots of competition for that spot.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 9:22pmWHITETEAPARTY is BECKISNUTS rebranded. Only getting worse…how long before WHITETEAPARTY(BECKISNUTS) goes off? Another lefty-loon gone bad? TICK-TOCK.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:37pmI agree … these lefties need watching every minute … wait the left didn’t want the vote on Repeal of Obamacare and now no vote .. who did set this guy off?
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 11:24pmIs this the 2nd, 3rd or 4th time you’ve posted this today? You are a bore.
Report Post »Idahocommonsense
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 10:19amI have read through here and it seems no one gets it yet. well lets make it simple for even liberals to understand. 1. this guy is a liberal hack who shot those people and the liberals don’t want to repeal obamacare so this will stop the vote for awhile. 2. this is the most important one of all, if the liberals can cause enough problems Obama can declare martial law and take over every aspect of our lives. Thats why the liberals are calling for violence all the time. Now they can say we need to get rid of the 2nd admendment. Just watch for the liberals to call for martial law and take everyones guns away.
Report Post »GEW
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 12:49pmThis guy is a nut. I dare say the libs have the hand in this!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 8:37pmshould have suspended their activities along time ago.
Report Post »Barry Soetoro
Posted on January 8, 2011 at 10:20pmYeah, well when it comes to anything I may have done, such as usurp the presidency, it was suspended by Boehner a few days ago. It’s good to be King!
Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace
Report Post »By Leo C. Donofrio, Esq.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881
WISEPENNY
Posted on January 9, 2011 at 4:26amPelosi, Reid, and any other Dems knew the facts, but chose to obfuscate them because they knew Obama was going to win, and that is all that matters when your are power hungry. What’s the big deal of a little grey area that can take years to make it to the Supreme Court, when the end justifies the means?
Report Post »By the time it all comes to light, the takeover would be complete, and no one could do anything about it!
Resistance is now futile, the prophecies can now proceed as prophesied. Believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior before the catching away of the Church happens. That’s your only hope.