[NVDave]

Oh, I’ve seen this trick before.

This is vintage Harry Reid.

You folks who are just getting to know Dusty Harry from the one-whore town of Searchlight, NV, haven’t seen this tactic before. We here in Nevada have, especially when Harry wants to cut a land deal. Harry would wait until the closing hours of a Congressional session, then slip in some legislation that you couldn’t see online (or anywhere else), call for a voice vote, get it passed, then have some people in the House slip it in as a rider onto some other last-minute measure and wha-la, we’d end up with a new “wilderness area”, the boundaries of which were set after the end of the session of Congress — like weeks later.

This is how the Black Rock Desert was put off-limits, for starters.

The last-minute voice vote with suspended rules is another of Harry’s classic tricks. This way, there is no indication as to how many people were there, who voted for it, etc.

[jedward]

This way, there is no indication as to how many people were there, who voted for it, etc.

No City Clerk for minutes??

[IslandJeff]

So what is “Dusty” doing, here? Testing the phone lines of Washington?

What a scumbag.

[Cyropaedia]

This is so depressing. I’ve read that Reid is a real master parliamentary style procedure. I guess that is how he got his job as Majority Leader.

[sauropod]

Those kind of tactics have been in place with congressional votes on wilderness for decades now.