In her last official act before resigning from the House, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will get to vote on her own bill cracking down on cross-border drug smuggling.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has scheduled the ?ultralights? measure for a vote under suspension of the rules on Wednesday.
Continue ReadingGiffords, who has spent the past year recovering from a failed assassin?s bullet, announced on Sunday that she will resign from the House this week in order to concentrate on her rehabilitation. She is expected to attend the president?s State of the Union address Tuesday night and to be on the floor for Wednesday?s vote before submitting her resignation.
The bill, which would apply anti-smuggling laws to ultralight aircraft now used by traffickers to move illegal drugs across the U.S.-Mexican border, was introduced last night by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) with Giffords as the primary cosponsor. The House passed the legislation in the last Congress, but it died in the Senate.
The Senate then passed it last year, but that measure was blocked in the House with a ?blue slip? ? which means it was objected to on the grounds that the Constitution prohibits a bill containing tax provisions from originating in the Senate.
So, Flake, who has been working with Giffords? aides to get it into law this year, introduced a fresh version with his colleague. Mark Kelly, Giffords?s husband, spoke with Cantor recently about trying to get the bill to the floor for a vote.
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) is working to get quick approval of the new House bill in the Senate so that it can be sent to the White House.
Correction: Tom Udall is from New Mexico. The original version of this story listed the incorrect state.
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