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Re: New quotes for Thu Feb 9
srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (srz@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Feb 10 23:12:12 1995
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I think the people who are complaining about this are being facetious,
or haven't look at the entire situation. Here is the Republicans'
first response:
Mr. Chairman, I think everybody here needs to understand that
though the gentleman may be acting quite in good faith, and I know
he believes sincerely what he is doing, Members need to understand
that this amendment guts the bill as it now is written altogether.
While the gentleman is offering a provision of the Constitutional
language that clearly is already there, and we might all want to
say, `Hooray, we are going to vote for that,` what we have to
realize is the gentleman is saying we are going to put it in a
place in this bill that comes very early in the bill, after about
three lines, and then strike the entire rest of the bill, H.R. 666,
so there will be no good-faith exception for any purpose in this
bill when it is done. All we will be doing is reproducing in bill
form the fourth amendment to the Constitution.
PAGE H1332
In essence, it is another way of voting against this bill. If
you want to vote the bill down, it is another way to proceed to do
that.
And going back, you'll look at what the amendment is:
Amendment offered by Mr. Watt of North Carolina: Page 2, line 13,
strike all after the word `States,` and insert the following:
<14th amendment>
So this was just a clever attempt by the Democrats to eliminate the entire
bill. And some people are buying it...
(ah, the wonders of having this stuff on the web... :-)
