The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, S. 1932, that was signed into law on February. 8 by President Bush continues to suffered criticism. Another court action to proclaim that the law is unlawful was filed April 28 by Rep. John Conyers Jr, D-MI, ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, who was joined in the suit by 10 Congress members including Rep. George Miller, D-CA, ranking member, House Panel on Education and the Labour pool.

The 1st lawsuit to challenge the bill’s constitutionality was filed February. 13 by Jim Zeigler, Republican activist and Mobile, AL, elder law attorney. Public Citizen, a Washington-based nonprofit customer advocacy group, on March 21 filed its own suit looking to declare the Deficit Reduction Act’s unconstitutionality.

Different Versions of the Law

According to Democrats the House and Senate passed different variations of the legislation, so rendering the bill criminal. The House passed a version of the bill that encompassed funding for 36 months of sturdy medical equipment and the Senate’s version contained only 13 months. As a constitutional requirement, both the House and Senate must sign identical versions of a bill prior to it being signed into law by the president.

“Once again the Administration is playing fast and loose with the Constitution. Anyone that has passed the sixth grade knows that before a bill can become a law, both Houses of Congress must approve it. The Bush Administration is now saying otherwise underlines the Constitutional crisis we are facing in this country,” declared Conyers in an April 27 press statement freed from his office. “Over 200 years of legal case law dictate that such discrepancies can be handled through simply refiling the paperwork, or re-voting the whole bill. As the bill cuts uncountable billions of bucks to the State's most needy, the Republican leadership forestalled a re-vote at all costs.”

Conyers suit names anyone accountable for the budget, which includes Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and President Bush together with other parties answerable for enacting the budget cuts required by the Deficit Reduction Act, according to Democratic helpers.

With his court action, Conyers asks for the whole bill to be announced unlawful and, therefore , not law, Democratic assistants said. The lawsuit asks that an interim restraining order be put in place to prohibit enactment of the law.

“Republican leaders were in such a rush to ram this bill through Congress and get the President to sign it that they violated the Constitution in the process,” said Miller in the press statement. “And they were in a hurry because this was a very , very bad bill. They wanted to spend as little time as possible having to clarify their backwards priorities — like cutting $12 bln from financial support programs for college kids — to their constituents.”

The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District Court of Michigan, case No. 2:06-CV-11972. Judge Nancy Edmunds is booked to preside over the case; however , it's not known when the case will be heard.

Education is the foundation on which any great civilization is built and this is clearly the case in the U. S.. When educational opportunities are taken away it can corrode this foundation. That is why we want to do something to declare the Deficiency Reduction Act unconstitutional. I suspect an education is the best investment anyone can make and I am devoted to helping individuals pursue their educational dreams by making university funding as straightforward as practicable.

Rachael Takase, is a loan officer in a University in Japan. She has been working there for a few years and was promoted to become a chief for the student department. She lately stepped down to be a credit executive instead after her first kid Toby was born so she could have more regular work hours.

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