[philman_36]

Great analysis, philman!
Thanks, but it wasn't quite right. That was on the original bill as it stood.
Go to reply #282 for the new and improved requirements.
It'll be damned hard for "Average Joe" to understand what the final bill says. I'm somewhat learned in reading this stuff (self taught 'cause I KNOW I'm not going to get any help from the government in figuring out what they're doing) and I'm finding it hard to muck it all out.

[angkor]

I'm somewhat learned in reading this stuff (self taught 'cause I KNOW I'm not going to get any help from the government in figuring out what they're doing) and I'm finding it hard to muck it all out.

The real meat is in the 1150 amendments, that's mainly what was being amended last week before Reid shot things down. In fact all three cloture votes were about S.AMDT.1150, not S.1348.

But I agree Phil, tracking the amendments to Amendment 1150 is a task. I used to work on this stuff in DC from time to time, but never mastered the trick of decoding some of the legislative formatting.