A quick search doesn't turn up anyone claiming a filibuster threat on that bill. It looks like the biggest opposition was because the bill didn't include any of the same language in the companion House bill (which did pass btw) that encouraged help for low income home ownership. Looks to me like the bill died because Republicans weren't willing to add on language dealing with low income ownership plans that were supported in the House. I'm not seeing a fillibuster threat.
Oh, for what its worth, of the three sponsors of the bill, Sununu, Dole and McCain, McCain was the only one to not bother to sponsor the bill again in the 110th congress (where it was S. 1100). Apparently it wasn't that big of a deal to McCain. Judah On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://dole.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=33629f52-b5d9-4d78-b1d3-37be68293f93&Month=9&Year=2005 > > The Senators have introduced the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory > Reform Act of 2005 (S. 190), which was approved by the Senate Banking > Committee on July 28. > > At that time the Senate was 55 GOP, 44 Dem, 1 Independent. > Not enough to beat a filibusterer. > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Opinion. Not proof. > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22514/pub_detail.asp > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:270463 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
