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The Verdict Is In: Senate Ethics Committee REFUSES to Enforce Salary Law Against Kerry!
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| 7-29-04
Posted on 07/29/2004 5:00:42 PM PDT by jmstein7
Well, the Ethics Committee has finally responded to the Ethics complaint against Kerry and the Secretary of the Senate.
Here is their letter:
As you see, the Senate Ethics Committee has refused to enforce a statute passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President (in August of 1996). If they don't like it, they have to REPEAL it; you can't just decide not to enforce a clear, unambiguous statute!
You can let them hear about it tomorrow at 202-224-2981.
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KEYWORDS: awol; ethicscommittee; ethicscomplaint; kerry
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To: mattdono
How they can drag in this one hundred years of precedent is laughable. How any practice or tradition prior to 1996 bears on the enforcement of a law passed in 1996 is unclear to say the least.
Beyond that, there hasn't yet been time to establish a subsequent Senatorial tradition of flouting this law, although the quoted response does get the ball rolling.
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:37:30 PM PDT
by
John Valentine
("The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein)
To: jmstein7
I look forward to your next step. Good job pressing the issue.
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
kristinn
To: jmstein7
Add me to your ping list. I find your threads so fascinating. Thanks.
To: jmstein7
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:41:44 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: jmstein7
The Select Committee on Ethics can be contacted at 220 Hart Building, United States Senate, Washington, DC 20510. Telephone: (202) 224 - 2981. Fax: (202) 224 - 7416.
Republicans
George V. Voinovich, Ohio, Chairman (Big Time RINO)
Pat Roberts, Kansas
Craig Thomas, Wyoming
Democrats
Harry Reid, Nevada, Vice Chairman
Daniel Akaka, Hawaii
Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas
45
posted on
07/29/2004 5:45:52 PM PDT
by
Militiaman7
( Viva Cuba Libre!)
To: jmstein7
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:47:06 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(End the imperialist moo slime colonization of the West!)
To: jmstein7
LAWYERS PROTECTING LAWYERS.
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:52:08 PM PDT
by
Indie
(Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
To: jmstein7
More waste of our tax money. I don't care who they are Republican or Democrat. If they don't show up for work, they should not get paid for it.
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:52:53 PM PDT
by
Wolfhound777
(It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
To: El Cid
There are several people that have something
up their sleeves as well.
The tree of liberty is thirsty.
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posted on
07/29/2004 5:56:48 PM PDT
by
Indie
(Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
To: jmstein7
File a Writ of Mandamus. They'll ignore it of course.
To: Indie
LAWYERS PROTECTING LAWYERS.Yep
To: jmstein7
If you plan on pinging people...add me.
BTW...how can I help??
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:05:04 PM PDT
by
Krodg
To: Militiaman7
Toll free to the congressional switchboard: (877) 762-8762.
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:05:12 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
To: jmstein7
Bummer. But not surprised.
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:06:21 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: jmstein7
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:15:42 PM PDT
by
GailA
( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
To: Non-Sequitur
They're afraid that if the law is applied to Kerry now then someday, someone will want to apply the law to them, too Yes, I guess you're right. The best we can probably hope for is that some voters will take notice of Kerry's complete lack of concern for America. Even the people of MA haven't been very vocal on his absence from Congress.
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:32:19 PM PDT
by
teletech
(Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT!)
To: jmstein7
You damn right. I want names of who did this on the Republican side. Whoever was responsible for this should be politically destroyed by any means possible.
To: jmstein7
Nothing new. There is a long standing "gentlemen's agreement" that all senators pretty much ignore the misdeeds of the others in exchange for the same courtesy.
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:48:24 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: jmstein7
If those people who pretend to follow the law refuse to uphold the very law that their body created, they should be FORCED to do so.
Heaven knows - we are!
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:52:33 PM PDT
by
Humidston
(Bush/Rice - 2004 - You heard it here.)
To: All
I place the blame squarely on the Dems. I know -- from some sources -- that all three Repubs were on my side. The problem was the Dems, because there are 3 Rs and 3 Ds on the Committee, and it takes ONE defection to make anything happen. Even if all three Repubs want to act, they cannot do so without at least ONE Dem. Not a single Dem acted here to enforce the law.
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posted on
07/29/2004 6:58:43 PM PDT
by
jmstein7
(A Judge not bound by the original meaning of the Constitution interprets nothing but his own mind.)
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