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Byrd Unapologetic About 'Secret Hold' on Spending Bill
Arizona Daily Star ^
| 9-1-06
| Cox News Service
Posted on 09/01/2006 6:17:55 AM PDT by nancyvideo
WASHINGTON In a new twist in this week's Capitol Hill whodunnit, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., acknowledged Thursday that he also placed a "secret hold" on legislation that would open up the hidden world of government contracts to public scrutiny. Byrd and Alaska Republican Ted Stevens, two of the most skilled purveyors of federal funds, used the parliamentary maneuver to stop legislation that would create a searchable database of some $2.5 trillion in federal spending.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pork; secrethold; spending; stevens; sunshine
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To: nancyvideo
two of the most skilled purveyors of federal funds,Geez, can you sugar coat it a little more?
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:19:08 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(I've had it with these &%#@* jihadis on these &%#@* planes!)
To: nancyvideo
LOL! Remember all those threads which predicted it would be Byrd?
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:19:15 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: SlowBoat407
A better term might be "Pork Kleagles."
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:19:45 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: nancyvideo
![](http://brandingadvice.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gomer11.jpg)
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:20:01 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(If you can't do something smart, do something right.)
To: nancyvideo
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:21:27 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
To: nancyvideo
Don't you just love it when the parties work together?
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:21:33 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: Brilliant
Is there any thing left in West Virginia to build with federal dollars or name after "Sheets"?
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:21:52 AM PDT
by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
To: nancyvideo
Hey K-K-K-K-Byrd. There's also a Voting Rights amendment up for consideration. Maybe you want to put another *secret* hold on that one too. Jest lyke da olde days.
To: nancyvideo
It would seem the only thing both parties agree on is that big government is a good thing.
To: nancyvideo
You should know better than to put a story like this in Breaking News.
You just knocked "Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread" out of the top ten "Breaking News" stories of this Friday.
Shame on you.
To: nancyvideo
Vote them ALL out!
New blood every time and none of those scumbags like these will rule over America again!
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:24:30 AM PDT
by
TimesDomain
(When a judge declares himself "MASTER", you become his "SLAVE")
To: SlowBoat407
Pork is king in WV and Alaska. What else is new in this world. The Senators serve their own interests and are oblivious to the concerns to the electorate.
Remember the mantra when the cost of this kimchee hits the fan; it is Bush's fault. Both of these doddering fools need to spend their twilight years in Florida; aka God's little waiting room.
To: nancyvideo
Spend-happy hosers. Stevens should be ashamed - hah! I think he has none.
On the other hand, hats off to Sen. Coburn of Oklahoma. He is my kind of conservative.
To: nancyvideo
Further proof that here isn't enough difference between most Dems and Pubbies to shake a stick at.
They work more in cahoots than we care to admit.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:26:47 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: NittanyLion
Unfortunately, you're right.
These days, there are three political parties: Democats, Republicans and Conservatives
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:26:55 AM PDT
by
nancyvideo
(nancyvideo)
To: nancyvideo
Despite lifting the hold, Byrd still wants the bill to be "debated and opened for amendment, and not pushed through without discussion," he said.
The mind boggles. I wonder what kind of amendments would be proposed for this bill. "Yes, I would like to amend the bill so that this website only be available to those on dial-up. We....uhh....don't want the server to get bogged down by all the broadbanders out there. Not enough tubes."
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:28:43 AM PDT
by
RippyO
To: nancyvideo
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:28:55 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(What Darwin denied he now regrets)
To: nancyvideo
Everyone should understand that a "hold" means nothing. In fact the hold doesn't exist in the Senate rules. It is simply an understanding between Senators that once a "hold" is put on a bill, it doesn't move. It is part of the country-club, hail-fellow-well-met world of Senators, where I suppose principle matters less than than making sure all the ol' boys stay cordial.
As I understand it, "holds" have been defied before. Exactly why the Republican leadership failed to defy Senator Byrd's hold I don't know.
To: nancyvideo
"secret hold"?
Yup....double secret hold.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:35:03 AM PDT
by
markoman
(The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
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