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coolNow Playing: Russ Feingold, says,,,
Topic: POLITICS
Sen Feingold is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping
A longtime critic of the administration, Russ Feingold, D-Wis was the first senator to urge a withdrawal timetable for U.S. troops in Iraq and was the only senator to vote in 2001 against the USA Patriot Act, the post-Sept. 11 law that expanded the government's surveillance and prosecutorial powers. He also voted against the 2002 resolution authorizing Bush to use force in Iraq. On March 13 2006 he has the following to say to the Associated Press in an interview.
"The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable,"
The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
A censure resolution, which simply would scold the president, has been used just once in U.S. history _ against Andrew Jackson in 1834.
Meanwhile .., In the House, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is pushing legislation that would call on the Republican-controlled Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeachment.
I got this info from an AP release --> HERE
And of course, this has caused Bill Frist to jump up and down and referring this to ....
"weaking the commander in chief during a war time"....
[get a clue Frist]
Frist say's, concerning Feingold's proposal, "The signal that it sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our commander in chief who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that is making our homeland safer, is wrong." He also called the proposal "a crazy political move"
Seems like his priorities are ass-backward to this here joe!
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As an added explaination below is what Wikipedia says "censure means"
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"Censure is a process by which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authoritative body."
Censure is a congressional procedure for reprimanding the President of the United States or a member of Congress for inappropriate behaviour.
News and other media often use the term incorrectly, confusing their viewers.
When used to condemn the President, however, it serves merely as a condemnation and has no direct effect on the validity of presidency.
Unlike impeachment, censure has no basis in the constitution, or in the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. It derives from the formal condemnation of either congressional body of their own members.
