Port Security

Quote:

H.AMDT.702 (A002)
Amends: H.R.4939
Sponsor: Rep Sabo, Martin Olav [MN-5] (offered 3/15/2006)

AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
An amendment to insert a new section on page 83, after line 16, that states upon receiving written notification, as prescribed by regulations under the section, of any merger, acquisition, or takeover proposed or pending on or after the date of the enactment of this section by or with any foreign control of any person engaed in interstate commerce in the United States, the President, acting through the President's designee and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States shall conduct an investigation to determine the effects, if any, of the proposed or pending merger, acqusition or takeover on the national security of the United States.

STATUS:

3/15/2006 5:22pm:
Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Sabo. (consideration: CR H1005-1008; text: CR H987-989)
3/15/2006 5:30pm:
Mr. Lewis (CA) raised a point of order against the Sabo amendment (A002). Mr. Lewis (CA) raised a point of order against the amendment stating that it constituted legislation in an appropriations bill and was in violation of clause 2 of Rule XXI. The Chair sustained the point of order.

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That's the only amendment Representative Sabo proposed to HR 4939, and it doesn't seem have contain funding to be voted down at all.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Why would it be set up that way? Amendments voted down are as much a part of the public record as those voted in or are pending. In this case, the amendment was defeated via a Point of Order.

Either way, a record of it should exist.

Also, Representative Sabo's comments don't mesh with what you originally posted. The vote totals he mentions defeated his amendments, 35-30 and 27-34, sound like committee votes, while the image you posted, and the numbers it contains, displays the results of a floor vote.

Also, there's this:

Originally Posted by Original Article

– $400 million to place radiation monitors at all U.S. ports of entry. Currently, less than half of U.S. ports have radiation monitors.

Originally Posted by Rep. Sabo

By installing radiation detectors at the top 42 overseas ports, compared to the 13 planned for by the Department of Energy, and at all of our land borders.

These two do not quite match up.

And finally, Sabo's press release spoke of $1.225 billion for designated purposes including the ones listed above. Sabo himself, talked about an amendment that contained $3.4 billion. Either he's talking about two different amendments containing funding, or there are still $2.2 billion there that haven't been accounted for, plus whatever else was in the amendment that we don't know about (and we apparently can't seem to find).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Watts

How does it feel to be a tool of the liberal agenda?

Was this attack really necessary?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.