house to vote on tabacco

**brandeeashlynn** · 04-02-2009, 04:12 PM

the house is scheduled to vote on the waxxman bill today. I just saw this on Fox News. what will happen to our ecis?

**TropicalBob** · 04-02-2009, 04:28 PM

The House will approve the bill. But it needs Senate approval (and the President's signature) to become law. The Senate won't roll over and not fight about this. Probably months of fighting. One senator has threatened a filibuster.

It's a terrible bill .. period. At best, it's good intentions gone bad.

**MonkeyMonk** · 04-02-2009, 05:16 PM

The bill just passed Tobacco now under the FDA. News source FOX News.

**ejfan1977** · 04-02-2009, 05:18 PM

fffffff fudge!

**MonkeyMonk** · 04-02-2009, 05:21 PM

Some woman was being interviewed on Fox (sorry my Closed Captioning and poor hearing interfered in obtaining her name) she blasted Nicotine and related that nicotine was causing all the harm and deaths citing emphasema and some other ones. She mentioned nicotine was not controlled and that now it would be controlled...

The reporters later related that they speculate that relative to analogs that there would be stronger warnings and reduced nicotine

**MonkeyMonk** · 04-02-2009, 05:23 PM

Hey, TB, got that red ink cartridge ready?

**brandeeashlynn** · 04-02-2009, 05:26 PM

I just heard that is passed as well. The government always gets what they want. Obama will sign it and the works is about to begin. I only hope that it doesnt effect us that much but i think with the Fda no in control of tobacco. They will make us one of thier many targets. The bill is not open to alternative such as ours becuase it mimicks smoking. This is a sad day in pv history. On a postive note though the pv isnt banned yet.
Now the question remains Is there any hope for a fillibuster?