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PATRIOT/USA followup: ongoing House debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Oct 12 11:44:40 2001
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:43:39 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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Last night, in a highly unusual maneuver, the Speaker recessed the
House at 10:25 pm EDT, and didn't adjourn until 8:59 am, reconvening
one minute later at 9:00 am.
The reason? To file a "report" from the Committee on Rules at 8:58 am,
on how to handle the anti-terrorism bill.
The House will now "debate" and vote on this report, even though few
members of the House have actually seen the report. Even minority
members of the Rules committee haven't seen the report.
This may rank as one of the biggest raw power grabs in US history.
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William Allen Simpson
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