Real problems ignored in the House in favor of discriminatory resolution
Despite the clock ticking to find a replacement for the Single Business Tax or face $2 billon in cuts to local and state essential services with only nine session days left before the General Election, Chris Ward and the rest of the leaders of the do-Nothing Michigan House continue to waste valuable time on trivial maters.
Last month Ward introduced a Joint Resolution to “petition the U.S. Congress to call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to require congressional districts to be apportioned on the basis of U.S. citizens in the district, rather than on the basis of raw population.”
It’s ironic that the Michigan House is failing to do its own job in addressing the dire problems facing our state, and now they want to tell the U.S. Congress how to do their job. This resolution is nothing more than a ploy to stay in power and to write discrimination into a document that has stood as a beacon against discrimination.
However, Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, had introduced the same resolution in June of 2005, and that resolution, resolution 97, was approved last week.
Rep. Gary McDowell introduces a substitute on the House floor that actually would have helped working families, and his substitute would “Memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation to bring the price of gasoline down for consumers by capping oil profits.” The staggering gasoline price increases are being realized despite the total combined profits of $111 billion in 2005 for the big five oil companies. The largest of these companies, Exxon Mobil, reported $36.1 billion in profits in 2005, making it the largest corporation in the world; and Exxon Mobil’s net income last year came to $1,146 per second.
But Ward, as floor leader, never even allowed that amendment up for a vote, and the amendment embracing discrimination was approved. Instead of getting something that actually helps everyone we get something that discriminates and helps keeps them in power.
As we said in an earlier post, the resolutions are the same discriminatory move that was introduced last summer by U.S. Rep. Candace Miller in the form of U.S. House Resolution. 53. Miller’s resolution was heard by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census in December, and thankfully, it hasn’t been heard from since. The data gathered through the census is used to determine how the 435 members of the United States House of Representatives are divided among the states.
It’s ironic that this discriminatory amendment would most likely supercede the 14th Amendment that was passed after the Civil War because southerners would not recognize African-Americans as citizens. It would do away with an amendment that stands as a beacon for eliminating prejudice for one that encourages discrimination.
This resolution and Ward’s driver’s license bill and voter ID bill show a pattern of discrimination, and it discriminates against the many noncitizen, legal residents living in the country who are married to service members, work here or study here.
Does anyone honestly believe that illegal aliens respond to Census Surveys? Or they answer the door to a representative of the government to tell them how many people live in the residence?
This is just another waste of time and power grab by Mr. Ward and the rest of the leaders of the do-nothing House.
Last month Ward introduced a Joint Resolution to “petition the U.S. Congress to call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to require congressional districts to be apportioned on the basis of U.S. citizens in the district, rather than on the basis of raw population.”
It’s ironic that the Michigan House is failing to do its own job in addressing the dire problems facing our state, and now they want to tell the U.S. Congress how to do their job. This resolution is nothing more than a ploy to stay in power and to write discrimination into a document that has stood as a beacon against discrimination.
However, Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, had introduced the same resolution in June of 2005, and that resolution, resolution 97, was approved last week.
Rep. Gary McDowell introduces a substitute on the House floor that actually would have helped working families, and his substitute would “Memorialize the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation to bring the price of gasoline down for consumers by capping oil profits.” The staggering gasoline price increases are being realized despite the total combined profits of $111 billion in 2005 for the big five oil companies. The largest of these companies, Exxon Mobil, reported $36.1 billion in profits in 2005, making it the largest corporation in the world; and Exxon Mobil’s net income last year came to $1,146 per second.
But Ward, as floor leader, never even allowed that amendment up for a vote, and the amendment embracing discrimination was approved. Instead of getting something that actually helps everyone we get something that discriminates and helps keeps them in power.
As we said in an earlier post, the resolutions are the same discriminatory move that was introduced last summer by U.S. Rep. Candace Miller in the form of U.S. House Resolution. 53. Miller’s resolution was heard by the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census in December, and thankfully, it hasn’t been heard from since. The data gathered through the census is used to determine how the 435 members of the United States House of Representatives are divided among the states.
It’s ironic that this discriminatory amendment would most likely supercede the 14th Amendment that was passed after the Civil War because southerners would not recognize African-Americans as citizens. It would do away with an amendment that stands as a beacon for eliminating prejudice for one that encourages discrimination.
This resolution and Ward’s driver’s license bill and voter ID bill show a pattern of discrimination, and it discriminates against the many noncitizen, legal residents living in the country who are married to service members, work here or study here.
Does anyone honestly believe that illegal aliens respond to Census Surveys? Or they answer the door to a representative of the government to tell them how many people live in the residence?
This is just another waste of time and power grab by Mr. Ward and the rest of the leaders of the do-nothing House.
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