Here in my opinion was the beginning – “The Hastert rule, also known as the "majority of the majority" rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships[1] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.[2] Under the doctrine, the speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.
I was originally talking about
specific VA policies brought in BY Newt Gingrich.Back when we lived in Dallas and used the Dallas VA there was a Paralyzed Veterans of America national service officer named Jackie Richardson who was a high functioning quad stuck in a power chair who used to travel to Washington every single year to testify before Congress and it was Mr. Richardson who returned one day and showed us on PAPER how the discretionary versus non-discretionary model was flipped on its head BY Mr. Gingrich.
Karen and I read it with our own eyes.
Now I wish I'd run off a few Xeroxes of the pages and digitized them into a machine readable file to show you.
Too soon old, too late smart for me I guess. I should have copied the pages.
Anyway, that's what Jackie was hopping mad about because the year it happened, we ended up with nurses holding bake sales and soliciting donations because they were running out of bandages, ordinary supplies like urine sample cups, gauze pads and, oddly enough, rubber CRUTCH tips.
But the Dallas VA never stopped being remodeled all that time and, like most other VA's still IS being remodeled.
No shortage of money for remodeling!
It's a JOBS program for construction contractors, leave a beautiful shell behind when Trump fires all the disloyal doctors and nurses.
