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Originally Posted by xxxdesign-net
Well i'm glad the rules are always followed... uhhh..
(PATRIOT ACT) Rep. Bobby Scott (Committee on the Judiciary member) said, ?I think it is appropriate to comment on the process by which the bill is coming to us. This is not the bill that was reported and deliberated on in the Committee on the Judiciary. It came to us late on the floor. No one has really had an opportunity to look at the bill to see what is in it since we have been out of our offices.? Rep. John Conyers, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, declared, ?we are now debating at this hour of night, with only two copies of the bill that we are being asked to vote on available to Members on this side of the aisle.?
Btw, you first claimed that the bill in it's entirety was available to congress 6 weeks prior to the vote... and you claim to know what you are talking about? lol You are delusional.. commitee isn't congress  |
The patriot act is not a good comparison because it was passed before the transparency sites were created (probably as a reaction to the patriot act). Now you can track all changes to a bill from it's introduction through passage. You can look at all of the changes yourself (as I said). I know it was available because I READ IT.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2454/text