On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Maureen wrote: >> McCain's attempt to reform Fannie and Freddie? McCain has always been >> anti-regulation and had nothing to do with the 2005 or 2003 Senate >> bills. > > McCain was a co-sponsor of the 2005 bill: > > http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20060525-16&bill=s109-190
I stand corrected. He did indeed co-sponsor a bill that never got out of committee > >> The Republicans had a majority on the Banking Committee and in the >> Senate. If they had really wanted reform, nothing the Dems did could >> have stopped it. > > Filibuster. No legislation without 60 votes. Done deal. There was no filibuster, or even a threat of a filibuster. The bill was read into committee, And no further action was taken. The republicans controlled the committee. So tell me again how the democrats killed this bill. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
