How will Jindal vote in the first 100 hours?
Jan 4th, 2007 by Daniel Z.
House Democrats have set up 6 legislative priorities that they want to take care of in their first 100 Hours as the Majority. They can be read at the following link.
http://www.majorityleader.gov/media/press.cfm?pressReleaseID=1624
Wednesday January 17th will be an interesting day for Congressman Jindal. This is the day that they discuss cutting the interest rates on student loans. Why is this important? Previously, Congressman Jindal voted against reducing student loan rates by 50%. In doing so he showed that he did not care for those students who require a loan to invest in their education. How will Jindal vote on the upcoming issue? Will this be a party line vote, or will Jindal allow himself to vote for the proposed legislation? How will Jindal spin these votes as he attempts to take over our state?
It will definitely be interesting to see how Congressman Jindal votes on all of these issues. I would not be surprised if he votes against at least 4 of the 6 (and maybe even 5).
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So far, Jindal has voted against 2 of the measures that have been proposed by the Democrats in their first 100 legislative hours. He has voted against embryonic stem cell research (no shock there) and against the prescription drug bill. He surprisingly voted against the Republicans to support both the implementation of the 9/11 commission report and to increase the minimum wage. Tomorrow is the day to see if he sends students up the river.
However, the votes that will be the most important are those votes that are made in an attempt to override a presidential veto. So even though he voted for an increase in the minimum wage now, he may not support overturning a presidential veto. We shall see which bills become law.
This is a very interesting day. Bobby Jindal has now voted to decrease student loan rates.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll032.xml
Jindal, along with a majority of his fellow House Republicans voted yes to the bill along with all voting Democrats (which is more than enough to overturn a presidential veto).
So why did Jindal have a change of heart? Why did a majority of Republicans change their votes as well? It would have passed without his support, so what kind of statement is Jindal hoping to make with his “flip flopping” on this issue? Perhaps we will never know. I wonder what will happen with the Senate and if the President will veto the bill or not. Time will tell.
Interesting day indeed. Politics at its best. ha
Well, the 6 goals set by the House Democrats have all been voted on and all have been passed.
Congressman Jindal has voted to support 3 of those bills. However, the story is not over. These bills now need to both pass the Senate and be signed by the President to become law. On those votes where he voted yes, I wonder if the President will veto. And if he vetos those bills, how will Jindal act in overturning those vetos.
Stay tuned and find out.
I guess that if the President vetoes any of the new bills put forth by the new Congress, Jindal will veto. Although I doubt he will veto minimum wage. Either way, Jindal continues to do us all a disservice by sitting on the fence and gauging the popularity of decisions rather than acting.