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To: Recovering_Democrat
Russ Feingold, DICK Gephardt, RINO Shays, are all at this anti-Constitutional press conference. This is bad news, folks. They want to STOP political speech 30 days before the election.
2 posted on 01/24/2002 11:12:34 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I will agree to stop my speech if they agree to stop theirs (that goes for the NYTimes as well).
4 posted on 01/24/2002 11:13:59 AM PST by RAT Patrol
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Russ Feingold, DICK Gephardt, RINO Shays, are all at this anti-Constitutional press conference. This is bad news, folks. They want to STOP political speech 30 days before the election.

Never happen.

First, this petition merely takes the bill out of committee and opens it for debate.

Second, it has to be passed by both House and Senate.

Third, it has to pass through the House/Senate conference committee.

Fourth, it has to be signed by W.

Fifth, it has to survive the inevitable lower court challenges, which likely will place an injunction on the enactment of the law.

Finally, it has to survive the Supremes (if it gets that far).

There are too many difficulties associated even with getting it passed in both houses, much less surviving the conference committee with teeth intact, for me to get too worked up about it.

15 posted on 01/24/2002 11:27:58 AM PST by r9etb
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