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Home / RSLC Chairman Ed Gillespie – Lame duck session poses threat to Democrats in NovemberRSLC Chairman Ed Gillespie – Lame duck session poses threat to Democrats in November
Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 01:10 Written by rslcpol Monday, 26 July 2010 01:10
From the Daily Caller:
Democrats in Congress are clearly considering convening a lame duck session of congress after November’s elections to move much of their liberal agenda. Last week Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to rule it out, and when Senator John Kerry was asked recently if cap-and-trade legislation was dead, he said it wasn’t because “we’re going to have a lame-duck session and we have weeks ahead of us.”
But voters are leery of the Democratic majority in congress reconvening after the election to pass a cap-and-trade bill, immigration reform, card check legislation or tax increases, according to a poll released today by Resurgent Republic, a conservative non-profit group (on whose board I serve) that tests public opinion on important policy questions.
In the new survey of voters in the dozen states listed as Senate toss-ups in the Cook Political Report, 69 percent of voters agreed that a lame duck session of Congress is a bad idea because “members of Congress should cast votes on important bills before facing the voters, not wait until after an election to cast those votes,” versus just 26 percent who agreed that a lame duck session is a good idea because “it allows Congress to address issues that it did not have time for before the election, and those issues can be addressed without the pressure of an impending election.”