H.Res.92: zOMG!!1 Martial law declared!!!

[kpete]

A note or two from Today's Daily Whip:

H.Res. 92 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 1 – Fiscal Year Continuing Appropriations Act for FY2011 (Rep. Rogers (KY) – Appropriations) (1 hour of debate)<[/b> The Rules Committee has recommended a rule with a pre-printing requirement for H.R. 1 . It allows any Member to offer an amendment, provided that they have submitted their amendment and it is printed in the Congressional record (the deadline to submit is the evening of February 15). It also allows for one motion to recommit with instructions.

H.Res. 92 includes a provision that would prohibit the transfer of funds between 302(b) allocations, making it more difficult to offer amendments.

The Rule also provides for martial law authority for any resolution that the Rules committee reports with respect to H.R. 1 from now through February 17.

What? "Martial law authority"? That's what Republicans used to call it when Dems used to waive the normal requirement that rules governing debate on bills couldn't be brought to the floor on the same day they were reported out of committee. Republicans are reserving the right to do this if they need a new rule to modify (i.e., shut down) debate on H.R. 1. It has nothing to do with actual martial law, but leave it to the wingnuts -- when House Republicans used the term in the last Congress, teabagger types "mistakenly" insisted it was Pelosi taking over as World Leader.

No, seriously!
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