Posted on 03/01/2006 6:27:28 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Boxer will be offering an amendment to lobbying "reform" to compel the WH to disclose all visits by Abramoff.
I love your Synopsis of Senate Shenanigans...it really helps me...especially on days like yesterday, when I had NO time to freep or listen to C-span.
I just loved Leahy's little speech about that Department? that the 9/11 Commission insisted on...that hasn't even hired staff or had meetings yet...
LOL...goes to show you how much stock President Bush put into THAT suggestion...hehe
I want her to disclose all visits to HER by lobbyists in the last 6 years...every single one!
Let me second that.
Thanks. I have no plan to do them as a matter of routine, but once in awhile I review the previous day's activities for hidden news.
I just loved Leahy's little speech about that Department? that the 9/11 Commission insisted on...that hasn't even hired staff or had meetings yet...
If you haven't, you should read the whole thing. It's a doozey. Leahy is a busy beaver. Lots of recent activity in Judiciary and elsewhere (aside from Intelligence Committee) relating to the NSA terrorist surveillance disclosure.
From last month: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569317/posts?page=493#493
Thanks for the link back to you post regarding this committee that Leahy is talking about..
Quite a few big names on that committee...methinks that Lanny Davis is probably yelling in Leahy's ear about when does he get to start "work"....LOL
Thanks for the ping
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Are they talking about an amendment for pay increases for themselves?
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I haven't been paying attention. This ethics stuff makes my eyes glaze over. These bills have so darn many amendments, it's darn hard to build a simple paraprhase of them.
I could be wrong .. but I believe Inoffe's amendment about pay increases was past on a voice vote ..
Geez .. he is mad
Yelling about trying to bring respect back to the Senate
Yes...I heard that part....Grassley was talking about the caucuses that had been happening in the "last hour"...he said caucuses, plural....and he said it like it was a four letter word...LOL
I'm still not paying close attention, but think he was referring to holds in general.
I'm still not paying close attention, but think he was referring to holds in general. ...
Just thinking of the irony if an amendment relating to elimination of secret holds was itself held up by a secret hold!
Yes...a bunch of Senators have gotten up, tsk, tsking about secret holds...but, I bet most have put one on at one time or another....LOL
What is this amendment that Schummer is trying to slip in regarding the ports????
Beats me. I think that teh Senate ought to require amendments be available on the internet so we can follow them on C-SPAN2. The Wyden/Grassley/Inhofe amendment won't be visible to us peons until tomorow either.
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