Coburn Gun Amendment Tacked Onto Credit Card Bill

Source: Rollcall

The Senate voted 67-29 to add a gun-rights provision to the consumer credit card bill on Tuesday, handing a victory to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who has employed a variety of procedural tools to advance the gun measure over the last two years.

The amendment would allow visitors to carry concealed weapons onto national park property by requiring those parks to follow state gun laws.

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Noting the Senate’s heavy legislative schedule before the Memorial Day recess begins after next week, Reid urged Members Tuesday night to submit amendments so the chamber could move quickly on the credit card bill.

“We want Senators to be able to offer amendments to the bill. But we’d hope they’d be related to the bill,” Reid said.

While Coburn’s gun amendment won strong approval in the Senate, it is unclear whether it will emerge once House and Senate conferees convene to craft a final measure. The version passed by the House on April 30 does not include a gun amendment.

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Coburn is a freakin lunatic.

So Coburn will have to keep trying...

Then the credit card bill will not get passed by the end of the month as Pres. Obama requested.

... and anyone can carry a gun into HIS place of work.

It is a standard tactic. Find a must-pass bill and fill it with what you want. It'll be law if it survives conference and that's a much better chance than getting it passed on its own.

by both Republicans and Democrats.

In the house they have to be germane to the bill

their noxious, caterwauling agenda?

It came up under Bush but we all were opposed to it - but honestly, I think it should be done.

I can see where they'd be useful, but after seeing how the earmark thing played out, I'm glad none of our republicant presidents had this power.

What it really does is dramatically change the Congress - Executive balance of power, tipping heavily in favor of the President(s). Much easier to twist an arm when a member's pet project can be isolated and cut.
Probably not a bad idea.

Bush would have used a line item veto to strike the consumer credit card part

Everyone with half a brain will look at this and go, "WTF do guns have to do with credit cards?" This is not good news for Republicans.

After you've been screwed royally by the credit card companies, you might be inclined to head off to a national park and blow your brains out in a spectacularly beautiful place.

Who is going to protect you in a national park? The ratio of law enforcement to square miles has to be incredibly low.

against it.

1) Cap credit card interest rates to no more than prime plus 3% - right now, the banks are getting free money - and charging us illegal usury rates for their money.
2) Complete amnesty on all credit card debts (i.e., all debts are wiped clean)
3) Force credit report companies to disallow their use for anything except for financial use only (i.e., employers cannot run credit checks)
4) Repeal the Bankruptcy Act of 2006 (or whatever) - allow consumers declare bankruptcy as needed
5) Have over $150,000 PER family available for housing
6) Single payer health care for everyone, with funds seized by the US Government from Bush Family Evil Empire, Haliburton, KB&R, Blackwater, etc.
7) Pull the troops home immediately from Iraq, and cut the DoD budget by over 90% and re-channeled to education, infrastructure, economy, jobs, Social Security, etc.
8) 100% taxes for companies that does business in the United States that have outsourced jobs to third-world countries.

You get the idea.

Hawkeye-X

in national parks for self-defense.

An excellent amendment and I look forward to Obama signing it into law so he can honor his promise, "I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away."

But hey, credit cards and guns in Nat'l Parks -- whoo hoo, we can get behind that.

Oh and by all means we HAVE to get out for our memorial day holiday.

I am so fucking sick of this "Democratic" congress.

I can only hope the House will get this idiocy stripped out in the conference committee.