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do you will recall as senator Sanders
in the first hour the program mentioned how horrified he was that the house of
representatives split the farm bill in half
so that they could pass the be you know the
basically the welfare stuff for the big bag
on the one hand might phrase not his and
I ignore the food stamps
for average working people so when this happened in the house representatives
a group of democrats tried to
stand up and get their objection to that
on-the-record so that weeks months years decades centuries in the future
people could look back on this moment in time and know where the democrats stood
and why now the problem is if you say I would like permission to revise and
extend my remarks
which is a fancy way of saying I wanna put something on the record
I want to be written down in the congressional record worth part of the
permanent
written record in the congress I'd like to extend or revise my remarks
if somebody says I object then unless you can overcome that objection
or a vote is held to overcome the objection
basically gets struck from the from the record and of course the Republicans
control the house of a republican
is objecting there's not going to be a vote held to to overrule or over
override that objection and so just listened to this this starts out
with congressman Jim McGovern who is the
democratic representative from massachusetts he's given a
I believe it's a fifteen minute period to speak and so what he does is he uses
his time by tossing it out to other members of the house representatives
so that they can put their remarks on the record
and so you'll hear him referred to one person and then refer to another person
and refer to a person
and finally gets what the republicans are doing and by the way the objection
every single time as louie Gohmert the Republican from Texas
and the year that louie Gohmert keeps
objecting to this but just now that you understand how it works in what's going
on
listen to the republicans preventing the democrats from
even getting onto the record the fact that they object to the fact
that the republicans have stripped the food stamps out at the farm bill here it
is
your John fifth straight
I yield to the journal it even more than this one amici for
a unanimous consent request jelly's recognize mister speaker i ask unanimous
consent to revise and extend my mark
remarks in strong opposition to the firm bill rule and the underlying bill
because it will increase hunger in America projected
there is objection speaker
you the year my good friend the German firm eschew sister Kennedy for unanimous
consent request
don't recognize thank you mister speaker mister speaker ask unanimous consent to
revise and extend my remarks and strong opposition to the firm
other farm bill rule and the underlying bill because it takes
food nutrition away from working families thank his objection
there is objection we go
yes issues with respect to an apartment and my interest a my understanding the
gentleman's
objection correctly that what he is doing is not even
giving members on our side the courtesy the inserting their
statement in the record is pulls data
proper one apology for I'm trying to understand what the objection
I means that the gentleman from Texas
maybe does that mean that the the gentleman from massachusetts david the
dismay will not appear on the record
the objection comes to you I was concerned request john was not stated
100 G miss speaker this one like the yields a
II to the journal eighty from New York my good friend the slowing
for unanimous consent request Journal a few workers recognized
mister speaker i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in
strong opposition to the farm bill rule
and the underlying bill because it hurts the working poor and takes food
nutrition
from hard-working families their land out there just
it goes on like this for like you know for much
well as there's a eight or nine minutes a bit better over at
Raw Story dot com you can watch it it's a clip from C span and
a I don't know how long the actual thing went on because I saw the web version of
it I didn't watch it in real time on C-span
but this is how callous these republicans are and how much they want
to cover their tracks
I mean you would think that they would at least have the courage to do a
Charles Koch did you may disagree with Charles Koch
that hey is it a wonderful thing if you make over thirty four thousand dollars
your walk in the top one percent in the world
you should be happy you're so much better off than Bangladesh
I mean Charles Koch spent a couple hundred thousand boxes on money to put
that on
that ad on TV he goes in B does an interview with the kid with the Kansas
City newspaper in says yeah there shouldn't be a minimum wage in
and now there should be no impediment to employer hiring anybody from anywhere in
the world band whatever they damn well please
is our my characterizations of his remarks not verbatim of his remarks but
you can
read his remarks it's no secret I me essentially this is what he's saying he
has the courage of his convictions
he's willing to say it on the record but louie Gohmert
and the republicans in the house representatives arc
howard's when the democrats stand up and say oh yeah I okay gonna split of the
food stamp art so we don't get to vote on that no other words it doesn't get
funded
instead we're just gonna vote on and fund the
you know the part that helps out Monsanto that's cowardly it's going to
it's going to lead to hunger in America as
as senator as congressman Kennedy said it's going to hurt working families
as the congresswoman from Oregon said
and louie Gohmert stands up because I objects
and so get stricken from the record
that only these people heartless
not only are they are they I V I just
totally in the bag for the billionaires and the and the and the
then the transnational corporations in this case the big ad companies
and trashing the American middle class
and the working people and the poor people the working poor this country
and the genuinely poor the impoverished the %uh the disabled
that earlier the trash in them but they're such howard's
that they're doing everything they can to prevent
the democrats who stand up to speak in opposition
to this kind of behavior from even having their remarks on the record
you can look back at the Congressional Record
in the eighteen thirties and you can see when John Quincy Adams was fighting
against slavery
and he after he became president went back and ran for the house
representatives
and he would get up stand up and give speeches even read them into the record
it's a bit too for the record
their on-the-record you can look back a hundred and fifty years and see what
they said
but this nose won't be on the record you're listening to the Thom Hartmann
program
call 866 987 thoo am
Louis calmer and the republican howard's
are preventing the democratic objections
from even being on the planet