John Kline tries to remove Paul Wellstone's name from his legacy bill on mental health parity

[Minnesota Raindog]

MnPublius has the goods here:

http://mnpublius.com/2008/03/was-john-kline-trying-to-remove-paul-wellstones-name-from-bill/

Minnesota Congressman John Kline is a scumbag of the lowest form who isn't worthy of having his own name on a congressional office, let alone yank Paul Wellstone's name off a piece of legislation that will do more than Kline has accomplished in his entire career. Truly a piece of shit.

:puke:

Here is the title of the bill as introduced:

SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007

SHORT TITLE(S) AS REPORTED TO HOUSE:
Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007


Here's the report from the Congressional record on Kline's sleazy motion:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r110:1:./temp/~r110rXQXCP:e0:

MOTION TO RECOMMIT OFFERED BY MR. KLINE OF MINNESOTA

Mr. KLINE of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?

Mr. KLINE of Minnesota. In its current form I am.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit.

The Clerk read as follows:

Mr. Kline of Minnesota moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 1424, to the Committee on Energy and Commerce with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith with the following amendment:

Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:

SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Mental Health Parity Act of 2008''.

(b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act is as follows:


Sec..1..Short title; table of contents.

Sec..2..Mental health parity.

Sec..3..Effective date.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. What has Kline done in the 2nd anyways?

Not much from what I hear. Is he just a placeholder in that seat?

[Eric J in MN]

2. Mark Heaney (radio host) said that the only two Minnesotans...

...to vote against the bill were John Kline and Michelle Bachmann.

When Heaney first asked the audience to guess which two, I guessed correctly to myself.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll101.xml

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Those two usually vote the other way

on anything compared to the rest of the Minnesota legislative group.

[Mister Ed]

3. MN Raindog: Off topic, but I sent you a PM re the Nelson-Pallmeyer campaign and SD 52 Saturday

Could you check your inbox when you get a chance?

Muchas gracias,
Mister Ed


Back on topic: This from the party that has the audacity to tack Orwellian names like "The Clear Skies Initiative" onto their own misbegotten bills.

:grr:

[LuckyLib]

5. He needs to go back to his dealership and hawk the new models. How low can you go, Kline?

[CatholicEdHead]

6. He will probably find a way to outdo this before the term ends