Posted on 11/10/2006 4:33:19 PM PST by ellery
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
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Wow I never heard of that one? what happened to it?
I must have missed the part where it was actually accomplished and thus established the most important reform that is needed to clean-up Washington.
"To tell the truth, term limits is the only thing in that Contract that the Republicans failed to do"
most repubs that were swept into office with the contract have kept the promise of a limited term...
it may not have been intentional though...
teeman
Wikipedia has a good review of the contract and what happened to all provisions of it.
Is that where it records that this country actually term-limits Congress? Now I feel better.
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