Summary
âž¡ The article discusses the rules of the US Senate’s proceedings, including the filibuster and cloture, which can only be changed with a majority vote. It also talks about the concept of supermajority for certain actions like ratifying treaties and impeachment convictions. The article mentions a potential 28th amendment that would allow for quick replacement of Congress members in case of a mass casualty event. Lastly, it emphasizes the importance of transparency in Congress, with votes being published unless four fifths of members agree to keep them secret.
âž¡ The text discusses the rules and regulations of Congress, focusing on the compensation of senators and representatives. It explains that the term ‘compensation’ was chosen to reflect the service these individuals provide to their country, not just a job. The text also highlights that the level of compensation is determined by law, requiring approval from the House, Senate, and President. It also discusses the protection of members from arrest during their service, unless they commit treason, felony, or breach of peace, and the restrictions on members holding other offices.
âž¡ The text discusses the Saxby fix, a workaround used in politics to bypass certain constitutional restrictions. It also talks about the power of the House of Representatives in originating bills related to raising revenue, giving the people a strong voice. However, it mentions that this power can be manipulated, as seen with the Obamacare bill. The text also explains the process of a bill becoming a law, including the role of the president in approving or vetoing it.
âž¡ The president can veto a bill, but Congress can override this veto with a two-thirds majority vote. Originally, a president would only veto a bill if they believed it was unconstitutional, not because they disagreed with it. If the president doesn’t return a bill within ten days, it becomes law. Resolutions, which are not necessarily legally binding, follow the same process as laws.
âž¡ The speaker thanks everyone for tuning in and discusses some technical issues they’ve been having with the show. They mention possibly returning later, but can’t make any promises. Due to their wife’s health, they’ve cancelled all events for the year, but hope to resume in the spring. They end by thanking the audience and wishing them a good night.
Transcript
Alright, so now real quick to answer two questions which actually tie into each other. So Melvin asked, heard anything if Douglas is going to be able to come to Columbus, Ohio? My wife came down super, super ill the last few weeks. That’s part of the reason why I wasn’t there last here last week. And she’s still recovering and she can’t travel. And I’m not going to go without her because she’s, I’m pretty much the only because of where we live now. I am, I am it when it comes to her family members. And I need to take care of my wife and she’s been requiring a lot of care.
And so, in fact, I was canceling shows last week. So therefore I have canceled all of my speaking engagements. I canceled Havasu, which I was supposed to do a couple weeks ago. Last weekend I was supposed to be in Minnesota and Milwaukee this week I was supposed to be in hopefully if we were to put together Columbus. And then so canceled. I had to cancel everything so that I could take care of my wife. So unfortunately, that’s just the tail of the tape. What we’re going to do with Minnesota, that was probably one of my biggest ones is they’re postponing until March and I’m guessing some of my other events like Ohio and all that will also be happening in the spring.
I would hope she had a just for. Thank you, Sophia, for the prayers, for complete healing. What happened was she had a reaction to prednisone and she literally, for about a week and week, week and a half, it was like, and I don’t know any other way to explain it. It was exactly like dementia. I’ve got a friend of mine whose wife has dementia and she’s a, you know, doesn’t remember what happened five minutes ago and is unable to articulate properly and repeats herself a lot. It was exactly like that. And I, and also my wife was very, very weak.
I was having trouble getting out of bed, having trouble even just walking and so I’ve, you know, had her emergency room twice. We’ve been, I’ve got some equipment we bought. Just keep close eye on different, different numbers, like blood pressure and things like that. But it was very scary because, and especially for me, because her dad has dementia and has been in hospice, and, and I was, you know, I didn’t want to, you know, see my own, my wife go down that same road, so. But it was the prednisone. It has been wearing off. She’s probably about three quarters of the way to getting back where she needs to be.
Uh, I still kind of take care of her, but, uh, with each day, she’s starting to kind of be a little bit more independent and in walking and going to the restroom and all that jazz, um, I mean, I had to pretty much nurse mate her for over a week. So it was very scary. Uh, very, very, very emotional for me, actually, because, like I said, uh, her dad, um, you know, it just images of what she, her family’s been going through with her dad. Um, so, um, so thank you for the prayers. Sorry that we weren’t here last week, and, and what was really sad about it is this was hitting me so hard, I didn’t even tell Ron.
And so Ron’s like, hey, where you at, dude? That’s all. And I’m like, oh, I forgot to tell you. Yeah. All right. Well, Melvin basically said what I’ve been hearing from everybody, including the events that I canceled on and one on one of them, the whole event was, well, all of them were geared around me, but one of them, especially constitutional week down there in Havasu. And, and Melvin says, take care of your wife, Douglas. That comes first. And that’s exactly right. You know, she’s my mate, my love of my life, you know, and I had no problem putting everything into taking care of her.
So, anyway, yeah, they’re saying they can’t hear you now in the chat for some reason all of a sudden. So, anyway, and I didn’t go into past shows to figure out where we left off, but I have a pretty good idea. And if I repeat a little bit and then we’ve done before, that’s okay. Yeah, I knew I was in the middle of five somewhere. I think it was about halfway down five when we cut out last time or quit last time, but, yeah, Melvin says, here, douglas, but not Ronnie. So there you go. See that? This show must be cursed for you or something.
And it’s good to see that. We have a warhammer sighting in the chat room. Howdy Warhammer, good to see you. I, and I’m sure Warhammer, you know, he’s been also privy to all this information. So he, he’s known all along that, you know, I’ve been having issues, you know, with wife’s health and, and so Warhammer and I have been wanting to do some videos for a while and we hadn’t done it just because I’m, all my times are going in her. So Warhammer, I think we’re about ready where we can do something. So, and so Sapphira says that you, kitty, must have stepped on something.
All right, I’ll go ahead and do what I got to do. And I can hear him because I actually have my phone because I couldn’t hear him with the technical difficulties. I actually have him on the phone, folks, so I’ll be able to hear him, but hopefully you guys will cool. I’ve got a list of fun topics for us, says Warhammester. So, so real quick, let me, let me do this. Let me plug this. When Warhammer and I do these videos, it’s on his channel. Just go to rumble.com warhamster. Just find warhammesters. And he’s going to put it in the link, I’m sure, in the chat, I’m sure.
But we do some good videos, too, and it’s not what I do here where I’m going through the constitution. These are just issues that are related to the constitution. Like we, I think last one we did was the 17th amendment. We’ve done one about, you know, how the Bill of Rights was developed and came into being and all that. So, so anyway, that all said, we left off an article one, section five. I’m planning on getting through five and six and into seven today. That’s reason why on the email, if you get my emails, it says making law, making law would be section seven.
But we’re going to wrap up with the procedures and real quick before I get into this because, well, actually it’s tied to this, but, but it’s kind of a side note. So article one, section five, second paragraph, and here’s how it begins. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings. Now this ties into something that’s going on right now. Let’s talk about the filibuster real quick. And what, because Kamala Harris is indicated, she wants to nix the filibuster. The filibuster me now culture cloture, which is tied to the filibuster. Filibuster is where people are debating and they continue debate and they kind of, you know, hog the microphone and don’t give it up, you know, to keep the debate going.
That’s the filibuster that’s been around since the first day of the US Senate. The filibuster has been something that’s been a part of the US Senate since 1789, when it’s very first session. The filibuster has always been an important tool because what it does is if you can filibuster long enough and certain personnel have to depart or whatever, the minority party keeps it going long enough that the majority party might lose enough votes that they can’t get something passed. It’s a way for the minority party to have kind of a tool to stop the majority party from just running away with whatever it wants.
Then. Then cloture in 1917 was added. Cloture is the number of votes that is required to end the debate. And in the beginning they did three quarters. And at time it was 64 and 664 votes for cloture. Now that it’s been changed, I think it was in 73. I want to say to 60. And, and what that 60 votes is cloture means that while a filibuster is going on, if everybody says, hey, whoa, whoa, wait. We need to stop the debate. You need 60 votes to do it, not just a simple majority, regardless of how many are there, that’s closure.
So and so. This is something that’s not in the constitution. People ask me where in the constitution is a filibuster. It’s not. But right here in article one, section five, it says that each house may determine the rules of its proceedings. That is a rule of the US Senate’s proceedings. And so that’s what that is. And the only way to get rid of that filibuster or the. Or cloture would be for the Senate to change it with a majority vote. And since Manchin and Sinema, who, while, you know, former Democrats are still usually caucus with the Democrats as independents, are against it, the Democrats don’t have enough votes.
Even with Kamala Harris as vice president throwing in a tie vote. If it were to tie, they don’t have enough votes in over in order to change those rules. They don’t even have a simple majority that supports them. Warhammer enters in the chat room. This is actually a true bit of information that I don’t get a chance to mention often. George Mason, I tell you what, the anti federalists, you gotta love him when you look back, Mandy. So well, in the future, he wanted congressional votes to be two thirds. Super majority always for everything. But it was decided that.
And. And the constitution does have supermajority on certain things, but they. But they also were fearful that if you had that on everything, it’d be too much like the articles Confederation. The articles Confederation, for example, for amendment required 100%, you know, agreement. You know, if it wasn’t. If it wasn’t 100%, could not amend. And Rhode island was usually the state that was kind of the Thor on every side, so they couldn’t get anything done. So you don’t want to be so high that nothing get done, but you don’t want to be so low that tyrants can run away with it.
So what they did is they have a simple majority for most things, like passing legislation. But then for certain things, they do have a supermajority. There’s a supermajority, for example, for ratifying treaties. There’s a supermajority for. For conviction of an impeachment, supermajority by the states for ratifying an amendment, and so on and so forth. So super majority for a proposing amendment, which is two thirds of. Speaking of amendment. Should we talk a little bit about the 28th? Potential 28th? Just for a second. Well, which ones? There’s about eight of them out there. The one that they were talking about with two.
If there’s a mass casualty event to fill Congress back up real quick. If there’s a mass casualty convent, that what? They can fill Congress up real quick. I have not seen that one. That must be. So Congress is trying to pass a bill or introduce a piece of, or introduce an amendment that would say that when people are elected to Congress, they get five names that they can send to the governor of the state, and they won’t have a special election. They’ll just. They’ll pick one of those five people and put them, like. Like, install them into a position of.
Into that seat until they can do a special election. So they be temporary fillings. Yeah, but. But it’s. But you completely bypass the whole, um, special election. Yeah. I fear that there’ll be too many chances for abuses there. First of all, how do you. How do you define a mass casualty event? Or how do you define a. And ultimately, it stops being a mass casual event. It says, and it’s any general emergency. Oh, my gosh. I’ll tell you what code, you know, my, my feeling is what that’s code for is not a mass casualty event, but a master rest of it.
And they want to make sure. They want to make sure that if they’re in position of power that they bring other people in, that would be of their ilk. Right. I think you’re right on target there. My opinion. But anyway, that was. That was what I was gonna ask you about, the 20 20th amendment. Yeah, well, there’s so many possible 28th amendments. Yeah. Trying to do one that was gonna take, you know, firearms, you know, basically neuter the second amendment. Yeah, there’s that one. There’s also a few others that have been floating around like a balanced budget amendment.
A number of them that have been called the 28th. One of them that’s floating around out there being called the 28th Amendment would be to disallow Congress from increasing the number of justices. I can’t remember the name of the organization behind it, but I met with the leader of it one time. But anyway. Yeah. And real special ed nailed it in the chat room. I’ve seen this on Star wars. Emergency powers is nothing more than a way to get around the constitution. Exactly. And as I say in quite often, there are no asterisks in the constitution.
It doesn’t say this is the constitution unless there’s an emergency asterisk. It just, you know, and it is amazing how the left is able to push their tyrannical ideas and mask it for as other things, and they. And they’ll change direction, even look like they’ve even flip flopped. And it’s like, oh, well, you know, no, we were that way along. You weren’t yesterday. They’re so good at this. But. But my intent here is to stick with what was originally intended and try to get back to it. I will say this. Every time Kamala Harris opens her mouth, a lie comes out, even.
I mean, everything. Well, if somebody breaks in my house, they’ll be shot. And then one of her top people on CNN says she doesn’t own a firearm, for example. That’s one of my favorites. One of her law enforcement endorsements turned out to be a group that was created on June 11 by democratic operatives. No law enforcement experience needed to be a law enforcement endorsement, apparently. So, yeah, it’s so just watching this, it amazes me because people just, you know, you get the. I know a lot of people have, you know, kicked Fox News to the curb.
I still watch Jesse Waters quite a bit. And he. And he does what he got him to start. He has a guy out there doing the man on the street. And I tell you, some of the stuff is frightening what comes out of some of these people’s mouths regarding what they believe. But so anyway, all right. That all said so each house may determine the rules of its proceedings. So that’s where our filibuster comes from. Punish its members for disorderly behavior. Censure. C e n s u r e would be one of those punishments. Censure is public humiliation, and with concurrence of two thirds.
Now, remember, we’re talking about our super majorities there. There’s one of them in the constitution with a two thirds concurrence, expel a member. Now, this happened recently. What was that? New York Republican. Hispanic name. I can’t remember his name now, but just recently got. Because he lied basically, on his resume to get elected kind of thing, and was expelled. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings that’s called transparency. From time to time, published the same, accepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy. Even back then, they realized that there was going to be some things that they needed to make sure wasn’t necessarily out in the open, that was not revealed.
You know, state secrets for military reasons or whatever. One of the good news is, they’re supposed to be transparent. The bad news is, when it comes to what secrets, you know, what is require secrecy. Well, that’s their decision, and who knows how they’re going to judge that? And the yeas and nays of the members of either house, on any question, shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. This is very interesting. Notice it’s a low. This is the opposite of a super majority. It is a very low number that makes sure everybody’s votes gets published.
They did that on purpose. In other words, if it requires secrecy and their votes need to be hidden from the public, four fifths of those members present need to agree. That’s a big deal. Uh, that’s a very difficult. That means both sides, because there’s got to be multiple factions and typically to agree. Holy cow. This is so important that the votes can’t be published. The founding fathers wanted to make sure, in other words, that the votes are always published, except for on those rare occasions where it’s so serious that four fifths of them says, uh uh, can’t do it.
Neither house. This is the final paragraph in article one, section five. Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days. In other words, if they’re going to go out of session, they have to get the other house’s permission. They can’t be. They can’t just say, well, now we’re out of session. See, guys next. Both houses have to give each other permission. That way, if there’s an emergency going on, let’s say hypothetically, and you have opposing parties in the two houses, one can’t be like, well, we disagree with what’s going on.
We’re just going to bail. They need the other house’s permission to go out of session, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. In other words, they can’t meet outside their normal meeting place unless they’ve given each other permission. The only time that you have seen historically that they’ve changed location. Where they’re meeting is either because there was an emergency. For example, there was a time when Annapolis was where Congress is meeting for a little while because of the, of the war of 1812, you know, and endangering their other location, for example, or if they’re going to change the.
Change it permanently. So, for example, when they went from the federal building to Philadelphia, and they went from Philadelphia to where they are now, the Capitol. All right, section six, article one, section six. The senators representative shall receive a compensation for their services. I’ve always was fascinated by this word compensation. It doesn’t say salary. It doesn’t say emolumentous. Emolument is like a salary. It’s an expected, a compensation. That’s an interesting word. And while it’s really hard to find anything regarding the use of that word, based on what I know about the people of that time, the word compensation was purposely used, I think, to mean you are serving your country.
This is not just some job where you expect a salary. This is, you’re taking time out of your day. You’ve left your farm behind for whatever time you’re going to be in Congress. You know, your practice, your, your fishing boat, whatever it may be that you do, and you’re going to spend time, so we’re going to compensate you for that. That’s the way I’ve always taken it. Now, once again, I’m not going to sit here and say, I’ve got a, b and c. That, that confirms what I just said. I don’t, they don’t really talk about why they use the word compensation, but I’ve, but I’ve always found it fascinating because the word emolument is matter of fact.
We’re going to get to it a little bit. You know, the secretary of state gets an emolument, but the members of Congress get a compensation. And once again, it’s always fascinated. They’ve used different. Fascinating that they use different words. And I’ve always believed the reason why they did is because compensation. Exactly. Is what it means. You’re being compensated. You’re taking time out of your life to do this. You should be compensated for. So the senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services to be ascertained by law. Now, this is where it gets interesting. Their level of compensation is determined by law.
What is determined by law has to be approved by the House, has to be approved by the Senate, needs to be signed by the president, unless, of course, there’s a veto, then overridden. So in other words, they are essentially determining their own compensation. Now, that said, still requires the signature of the president, so they’re not doing it unilaterally. And the 27th amendment, which was originally part of the bill of rights, establishes, and this is something that they wanted to establish early on, that it doesn’t take effect immediately, doesn’t take effect until the beginning of the next Congress.
So in other words, you’re not necess, you may not be voting yourself for raise. That would be the next Congress critters, unless you get reelected. But there’s always been a concern, well, how should they be determined what their compensation is? Shouldn’t it maybe be the states that determined it? Should it be maybe the state legislatures? Should it be maybe up to a vote of the people, which the founding fellows would have never done, because that’s because they were trying to keep democracy at bay the best they could. And it did create some concerns that were anti federalists that actually voiced their opinion.
Wait a second, they’re going to vote their own compensation. And the federalists, remember, were afraid of the central government, big government, and now it’s gonna be able to do something without any outside approval, like just determine how much they get paid. There were concerns and paid out of the treasury of the United States. In other words, this is federal tax dollars that are being paid for their compensation. They shall, in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the accession of their respective houses, and a going to or returning from the same, and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Now, this, once again has created a bound of contention. There are a lot of people at the time that were concerned about that part, and today we’re concerned about that part. These critters believe they’re above the law because of this section. Now, read it carefully. Does not mean that they are above the law. Cannot be arrested at any time. They cannot, unless it has something to do with treason, felony, or breach of peace. They cannot be arrested during their attendance or while they’re going to, or coming from. And the reason why that’s in there and this was going on not only in the colonies and with the British, but this was a common misuse of the law when it came to just a lot of countries in the old world.
In Europe, as you’ve got a political enemy, and you need so many votes for something, and you know that political enemy is going to vote in opposition to what you need. Yeah, you just have him arrested before he gets to Congress just long enough. Gets held just long enough to miss the vote, and then he gets released just in time for him not to be able to vote. That was going on a lot. And so the reason this is there is because of that. So you have a abusive tendency by these people to do something, so you put into something to protect against that, but it gets abused.
So it’s like. It’s almost like you can’t win for losing here, but they are not completely privileged from arrest. Someone says, well, then how do you arrest these people for. And, you know, fill in the blank. And my response usually is, well, they eventually go back to their districts, and while they’re in their district, the sheriff can arrest them for a, b, or c, or whatever. So they’re not completely above the law, can’t be arrested like they think. There are times when they’re not in their seat or on their way there or on the way out.
And if they are guilty of something, they need to be arrested. Members of Congress can be. Now, that said, once again, treason, felony, breach of peace, doesn’t matter. They could be sitting in their seat on the set, in Congress, in the chamber, if it’s for that reason, they can be arrested right there in the chamber. Treason, felony, and breach of peace. Breach of the peace would be a violent activity, for example, among others. All right. And there’s a long discussion that could arise about that, but I’m not gonna get into it. There’s a certain month of day that comes to mind, January 6.
And the people who supported that, of course, then there’s maxine. Water. It’s just every time she opened her mouth. But anyway. All right. No. Now, this next one is one of my favorites because there’s a great example regarding it. No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall not have, which I’m sorry, which shall have been created or the emoluments. There’s that emolument where I mentioned earlier, remember, salary emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time, and no person holding office under the United States shall be a member of either house during the continuance in office.
That’s two things there. I’m gonna address the first part. First, what that first part saying is if you’re a member of senate or the House of Representatives, and during the time you’re holding that office, and notice it doesn’t say that you had to have been there to vote, just an office holder in the House or the Senate. At the time that an office is created or gets a raise, and it’s a monument, you are ineligible to hold that office. Now, the great example that I like to use has to do with Hillary. Hillary was a senator in the United States Senate.
Whether or not she voted on it doesn’t matter. She was a senator when a the US Senate was a man. The in the House voted for a raise, an increase in the emoluments, increase the salary for secretary of state. Then what? Which means she’s ineligible for secretary of state. Then she winds up getting appointed as secretary of state. She was ineligible. It was unconstitutional. Now, what the left does, and the general establishment now accepts it as just the way it is, and it really does still violate the constitution, is they employ an idea called the Saxby fix.
Now, most people, many people spell it s a x b y, but actually the proper spelling is s a x b e, if you want to look it up. Sex be fix. And what it basically does says, oh, gosh, you know, she voted for the raise. She’s ineligible. So what we’re gonna do with the Saxby fixes, we’re gonna roll back the emolument back to what it was before the vote. That way she’s no longer ineligible because now the emolument didn’t get raised. It’s not what it says, doesn’t say if it was raised and later decreased, if it was raised at the time that a member of the House or Senate was in office, those people are ineligible for that seat, period.
But see, the Saxby fix is something that the left and really the establishment. So when I say the left, understand, I don’t necessarily just mean Democrats. I know people hear me say left sometimes and, oh, he’s talking about Democrats. No, trust me, there’s an awful lot of left, if not nearly the entire party and the republican party as well, the left is everything to the left of the constitution. And if the Constitution is dead center and everything is either constitutional or to the left, there really is not a right there. The right doesn’t exist, in my opinion, other than maybe anarchists and a handful of Ron Paul followers.
Whatever. I had to jab you at least once today. All right, so, all right, then I’m gonna do this. Yeah. Steals our baseball player, then they think they’re great. All right. That’s record of baseball saying. But anyway, finally, finally let Shohei get to taste what the postseason was like. You know, couldn’t, tried, tried for like six years in Anaheim. Couldn’t get it done. Yeah, well, I’m not going to have that conversation because football’s not been working out for me real well either at the moment. So I, I’m just, right now, sports is just not my, my bag right now because all of my.
Hey, I’m still a fan of my teams. I don’t give up on my teams. But, yeah, it’s not been working. Warhammer wants to pipe in about the Padres. Yeah, whatever. Pot. Padres are hungry. And I respect the Padres, but I, I don’t. I think they’re still the enemy. Right. They underestimate the fight of the Dodgers this year. I actually like the Padres, too, but not because I like them. Just because I hate the Dodgers so much. That makes me want to, like. That’s all right. Well, if you want to mention, basically, side note, greatness, childhood hero for me and Warhammer.
Pete Rose just dying. Yeah, I have. That man belongs in the hall of fame. I don’t care what anybody says. Full agreement. Full agreement. Matter of fact, my wife’s first words when I told her petros passed away, she says, oh, man, he’s not going to get to see himself, but in hall of fame. And Warhammer actually told me he will not visit the hall of fame until I saw his tweet. Pete’s in there. But anyway. All right, back to where we’re at. Enough baseballs. Get back to the constitution. So anyway, so the Saxby fix, that is a workaround that they use.
It’s fully accepted. This is what. Get back to my point earlier. The left. Everybody to the left. The constitution does is they always try to find a workaround. Oh, that’s unconstitutional. Well, not if we interpret it this way or we do this little tweak. See, it’s okay. And everybody goes, okay, well, if everybody agrees it’s okay, I guess it’s okay. It’s very unconstitutional. Hillary Clinton had no business being secretary of state. She was a senator at the time that that position, its emoluments were increased. That last part that I mentioned talking about, no member, no person holding the office under the United States shall be a member of either house during his continuance office.
Simply saying, like, for example, when she became secretary of state, she couldn’t be senator at the same time. You can’t hold off a seat in one of the houses of Congress and another federal position at the same time. That’s what that last part was saying. All right, now. Now it gets more interesting. Glad you’re stuck with me here. Had to talk baseball just to keep Warhammer awake. Law, how to make law. And this very first part ties into why it’s so important that our houses of Congress were different from each other and that the House representatives was the voice of the people and the Senate was the voice of the states.
Now, when it came to the voice of the states, they have something special that only they do. For example, they can. They confirm the judges and other officers, federal officers. They ratify treaties. They hold the hearings for impeachment. The special things that the House does is they can impeach, in other words, charge. And then this one. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. But the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills. In other words, if. If the bill has anything to do with the money, you gotta. We gotta, we gotta pay for this.
So revenue’s gotta be raised to pay for this. Whatever it may be, it must originate in the House. In other words, money only belongs when it comes to the origination of a bill with the voice of the people. And what that did is it gave the people a very powerful voice. You hear me say all the time, well, we’re not a democracy. People say, well, then what about the voice of the people? Democracy is dangerous. However, the founding fathers recognize that while democracy was dangerous, we the people was still a very important component of the overall thing.
So they gave the people, through the House of Representatives, the ultimate power, the power of the purse. Don’t like the war? Starve it of money. Don’t like what else is going on? Starve it of money. Do not include it in the budget. The Senate can’t say, oh, no, we’ll have our own bill and just do it ourselves. No house has to originate it. The budget has to originate with the House. And if they don’t like something, they leave it out. They can starve it of money. Then that’s very, very, very important tool here. It is a very important tool, especially when you have two houses that are different, one being the voice of people, the other being the voices.
Estates, 17th Amendment, screw that all up. Different discussion for a different time. So, but, so just be aware that the idea that bills that begin, that have to do with money having to begin with the people, so how. But, but once again, remember, was tax be fixed? I said, they have their ways of getting around things the way they get around this one is the amendments part. And the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as under the bills. So Obamacare, for example, was, would raise revenue. It required additional taxation to pay for. Therefore, it had to originate in the House.
But the Senate had their own Obamacare. Obamacare actually was a Senate bill. Yeah. So what they, so what they did is they took a bill that was actually originally designed for something had to do with NASA. They stripped it of all of its language. It was, you know, proposed by the House, stripped it of all the language, and then put Obamacare into it. So what was an amendment? The number was Hr. Da da da da da da. Therefore, it was a House bill. Even though none of the original language from that bill existed anymore. It was completely stripped out.
And then the sent out, that was the Senate’s way of being able to get their bill. That’s how they worked their way around it. Shady, is it? Shady af let’s say that again. Shady. Shady af. Yep. Shady af. This is a family show. We better be careful with that. So, yeah, very shady, very diabolical, very underhanded. Oh, I could come up with all kinds of words, but that’s what they do. So Obamacare was actually a Senate bill, but they stripped a House bill, put the language into it, called it an amendment, and that way the Senate got their bill through, or at least launched.
So once again, the day designed this on purpose for the House, the voice, the people, to have the purse power, the purse strings. And now let’s read the next part. I usually explain it first, but I’m gonna read it first, then explain it because we got about eleven minutes and I want to get the part read. Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and Senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the president of the United States. If he approve, he shall sign it, but if he shall not. If not, he shall return it with his objections to the House in which isha been originated.
So in other words, when he vetoes, it must be in writing. His written objections are presented back. So it takes both houses to approve a bill, then it’s presented the president for signature. Once it’s signed, it becomes a law. But if he vetoes it, he vetoes it. In other words, no want it, it doesn’t kill it. It sends it back to the House or the Senate, which, wherever it originated, with his written objections attached, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal and proceed to reconsider it? If, after such reconsideration. Here’s now we get back to our super majority.
This raisin was a simple majority for passing a bill, is the supermajority would be available for overriding a veto. This is why they didn’t do a supermajority for passing bills. If, after such reconsideration, two thirds of that house shall agree to pass a bill, and it shall be sent together with the objections to the other house by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that house, it shall become law. In other words, the president is not a ruler and can be over powered in his decisions by Congress. If Congress has a bill that they believe needs to be law and he says, net, if they have enough votes, they can override that veto and get it in play anyway.
Now, my Andrew Johnson saw a lot of that going on during his presidency. Am I correct when I say that the. The original role of the president in the legislative process was nothing to pass it, whether or not he agreed with it, but to only ascertain its constitutionality or its. How it fits in with the constitution. I mean, will it pass the test of being constitutional? Yeah, that was. Well, the idea was anytime a president vetoed it was because he believed it to be unconstitutional, not because he disagreed with it. And in fact, the first, um, the first president to face, uh, impeachment from the House, John Tyler.
Uh, that was the accusation with that particular impeachment that he was vetoing because he disagreed with them politically, not because they were unconstitutional in actuality. So, yeah, absolutely. In the beginning, they believe that the veto should only be used if the president believed it to be unconstitutional. That’s gone out the window ever since, right? Yep. But in all such cases, the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered in the journal of each house, respectively. In other words, if the two thirds thing, where they’re overriding a veto is going on, voting present, don’t do it.
You’re either for or against, and it will be put in the journal. That’s what it’s saying. If any bill shall not be returned by the president within ten days, Sunday is accepted after shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law. In other words, if he were just never to return it, never sign it, never veto it, just sat there, it becomes law. Now they’ll say, well, what? You know, pocket veto. A pocket veto is when he hangs on to it until the very last second, then sends it back so it’s too late to overwrite it.
Veto in like manner, as if he had signed it, unless the congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be allowed. In other words, if he tries to return within that ten days and they do something to make sure he can’t, then they shall not be allowed. All right, now, every order, resolution, or vote which the concurrence of the Senate and House representatives may be necessary, except on a question of adjournment, shall be presented to the president, United States, and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate House representatives according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
In other words, what it’s saying is resolutions are to be treated no different than laws. The law, the process of making a law that we just went through, both houses have to approve it, and then there’s committees and all that jazz, too. President can veto it. All of that jazz. That exact same process goes for resolutions. Resolutions are not necessarily legally binding. Resolutions might continue a law or continue something like, you know, budget resolution. Or they may be something like, oh, we’re going to send out a letter, a resolution letter of congratulations to such and such team for winning, such as such championship.
That’s a resolution. So resolutions are not necessarily laws. They are either non legally binding actions, or they are a continuation of something that exists, like a budget. And so there you go. I’m going to stop there because article one, section eight, is. I don’t want to start on it until next week. It’s the monster. It’ll take a while to get through, but it’s. And I want to give it the proper beginning, so. All righty. Well, and I just got a message from Mike, guys. He has to postpone until Thursday, so there will not be a Tuesday with Mike tonight.
It will. That show will happen on Thursday. Now, not tonight. So anyway, so I apologize for that, but that out of my control. Right. Well, then I’m just going to tell you if you wanted to jump into number eight, we have some time. No, because I’ve got a feed, Virginia, that said we, starting next week, are changing the time. Yes. So for a number of reasons. The reason why we went to four is because of me trying to watch you. We’re a three. There more to do with your schedule in your local schedule. Right. Going around your local schedule in California now that you’re no longer.
Yeah. That that schedule is no longer working the same way. And now your schedule needs some help. So we’re gonna move it to 330 next week. So be here early. Yeah, about a half, just half hour early. And only reason doing that is so that if we can, if we do talk over, there’s not. I want to be able to give a little bit of flexibility to talk about things if we, if there’s a little extra conversation. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And trust me, it does come up often. So, and, and so. Absolutely. Very good. So. So I would factor in probably maybe so somewhere between an hour, hour and 15, maybe 20 minutes.
Then that gives me a little bit of a break that I can, you know, hit the head, go get a snack or do whatever I need to do if something’s, if something came up where I’m not just strapped here to the, to the chair for, you know, two and a half, 3 hours solid. So Warhammer is trying to bait me to talk about the Brunson case again. Now I’ve got things I’ve got to do today, so I can’t hang a little late. So right now, aside from a couple of times, I pretty much have been doing all the providing for my wife when it comes to cooking and all that.
She’s gotten to the point now where she can nuke stuff, but, you know, not necessarily letting her play with the, play with the stove just yet. Well, I don’t know. Is that a dangerous thing to let her play with a stove? I’m sorry? Is that a dangerous thing to let her play with the stove? At the moment, yes. She’s not fully there yet. Oh, stop. Took me a moment. Yeah, that’s okay. You’re, you’re, you’re about as sharp as a marble today. Yeah. Took me a moment. All right. But once again, also, don’t forget, guys. Douglas v.
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So anyhow, all right, guys, everybody, thank you for, uh, thanks for tuning in tonight. Um, I may try to come back a little bit later or I major, I may try to come back tonight for something, but I can’t promise. Um, I had, I didn’t have anything kind of, you know, in the bullpen ready to, you know, to come in. You know, I’m in baseball talk right now, so yeah, real special ed in the chat room. As I indicated earlier, because of my wife’s health, I have canceled all of my events for the rest of the year because the next few weeks especially so Ohio is pushed.
Hopefully I’ll be able to pull it off in the spring. So we’re going to start, matter of fact, I’ll need to get with the Warhammer because my connection for a Ohio event is a connection through him. So we’ll get it set up and we’ll let you know as we move in that direction. Thanks for spending the time with us today. United we stand combined, we kick butt. God bless America, my friends. God bless you. See you next time. See you next time. Everybody. Have a good night.
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