Mr. Rives has found several sympathizers among the board's seven-member conservative bloc, who have introduced his resolution verbatim.
The eight-member panel, which has the power to issue subpoenas and issue reports, is controlled by a six-member conservative bloc appointed during the Bush administration.
And not a single member of the court's four-member conservative wing joined any of the four opinions written by a liberal justice.
Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court's four-member conservative wing, would have used the case to establish the possibility of a "judicial taking" even as he said no such thing had happened here.
Ironically, the four-member conservative dissent does respect the principle of religious liberty.
Her fellow committee member, Conservative MP Richard Bacon, added: "Everyone thinks it's going to be £70bn, £80bn or £100bn by the time it's finished.
The only public opposition to the ban came from a few students who are members of conservative groups.
Most Tea Party members (fiscally conservative) would not likely be enticed by earmarks anyway.
Most of their volunteers were members of conservative churches, and the message was similar to recent campaigns: "Keep it straight.
The committee has four Labour members, three Conservatives, three cross-benchers and two Liberal Democrats.
