BBV: Additional Co-Sponsors for H.R. 2239 (11/21/2003)

[goobergunch]

Rep Schiff, Adam B. - 11/21/2003
Rep Michaud, Michael H. - 11/21/2003
Rep McCollum, Betty - 11/21/2003
Rep Udall, Mark - 11/21/2003
Rep Tierney, John F. - 11/21/2003
Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 11/21/2003

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR02239:@@@N

Bringing the grand total to 1 sponsor and 82 co-sponsors.

[Eric J in MN]

1. how many co sponsors does it usually require

How many co-sponsors does it usually require for a bill to go from a commitee to the floor of the House?

[NewJerseyDem]

2. None in particular

It doesn't need any cosponsors do go through commitee and onto the floor if the committee chairman and leadership want it to go through. It would need 218 members to sign a discharge petition to bring it to the floor directly, even against the leadership's wishes, but that won't happen.

[Eric J in MN]

3. I meant when the commitee chairman is reluctant

I meant when the commitee chairman is reluctant to send a bill to the floor of the House, how many co-sponsors are generally needed for him to do it, anyway?

[NewJerseyDem]

4. He won't care how many cosponsors there are

That won't convince Bob Ney to bring the bill up to a vote. This bill probably isn't going to go anywhere as long as the republican leadership and Bob Ney are opposed to it.

There are some signs that some republicans are supporting it. Tom Davis, Charlie Bass, and Christopher Shays have become cosponsors. But, the leadership probably won't bring it to a vote. A discharge petition would be needed and that will never happen.

I guess it is possible that the leadership will give in, however they would probably change the bill so that it is worse anyway.

[lysergik]

5. Well..

I think the decision in California yesterday is going to catch the eye of lawmakers and hopefully they'll start piling on the bandwagon. It is in their best interest.

Gonna have to continue calling and get all the CA reps to back this, they have nothing to lose now. And continue to work on all the others.

[RedEagle]

6. There is a point...

...where stonewalling this bill and not supporting it is going to call into question your support of the very structure of democracy.

I don't care which side of the isle they are on, how can they, for much longer, refuse to support a bill that helps insure our votes are counted as cast?

That helps insure voting against outside attacks, including possible terrorist disruption?

At some point in time, the stonewalling by Ney, Hastert, DeLay, and that other Ohio rep who chairs the Republican house caucus, is going to look REALLY bad.

What will they give up to stop this bill? Their political careers?

[dusty64]

7. Are these all

Democrats?

[lysergik]

8. All except for 3.

3 have realized this is a non-partisan issue, it affects EVERYONE's vote.