At 02:18 PM 7/25/2003 -0400 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>>Actually, its called the "House-Senate Conference Committe", and its
>>been around for a very, very long time.
>
>I didn't mention this because it was in the MSNBC article. Frankly, I'm not
>sure why you bring it up, so it seems like a non sequiter to me. What's
>your point?
Once the House and Senate pass similar bills, differences are hammered out
in a Conference Committee. It is routine for important provisions to be
added and dropped in these Conferences, and then sent back to the House and
Senate for votes on relatively short notice. Indeed, the conflict between
"more consideration" and the need to act expeditiously on a problem is as
old as time. The fact that a Committee Chairman in the House is making
that tradeoff in a way that the minority disagrees with is hardly new.
Thus, I know that I am not a hypocrite, as you accuse, because Democratic
Committee Charimen in the House most certainly have rammed bills through
Committee in the past - and I know that I have never complained terribly
loudly about it.
JDG
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