TERRI TO “TESTIFY” BEFORE CONGRESS
**Exclusive Fri Mar 18 2005 00:50:07 ET**
The Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee, Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) has requested Terri Schiavo to testify before his congressional committee, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. In so doing it triggers legal or statutory protections for the witness, among those protections is that nothing can be done to cause harm or death to this individual.Members of Congress went to the U.S. Attorney in DC to ask for a temporary restraining order to be issued by a judge, which protects Terri Schiavo from having her life support, including her feeding and hydration tubes, removed… Developing…
Ingenious and interesting tactic! So, if the House and Senate can’t resolve their legislative differences and if for some reason the aforementioned subpoenas don’t work (yes, I’m getting lost in whether these are the same thing), Terri will be protected until Enzi’s congressional committee meets–certainly after there has been time to iron out the legislative disconnect between the House and Senate versions of the Incapacitated Person’s Legal Protection Act. I’m no lawyer…but I will clarify when more information comes out.
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Our Life says:
Abuse of Power
The Terri Schiavo case has taken yet another turn as Congress attempts to delve in to the lives (and deaths) of every single American on the face of the planet. I am pro-life but I’m also anti-big government; Congress has…
Craig says:
Brilliant, brilliant tactic to give a 12th hour reprieve to a poor, abused woman who was going to face a worse torture and death than any Abu Ghraib or Gitmo detainee (but we won’t hear Amnesty Intl or the ACLU come to her rescue). And I don’t have any problem if Congress has to intervene in a life/death issue if the judicial branch fails to do its duty and the executive has exhausted its abilities.
The Orphan says:
I’m not big on gov’t intervention, but I think this is a good move. If nothing else, it takes away live-or-death- decision making the judges in this case seem to be wielding. Maybe these same judges will be forced by the Legislative Branch to do what they are payed to do….listen to both sides of an argument. There are a number of doctors out there (from what I’ve read) who are against wantonly killing this young lady (which is the end result of the proposed disconnect), and I believe they need to be heard. A pox on the format and wording of a legal brief…just listen!
david
Now…off to the beach…