US House Republicans taking a long weekend

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It looks like enough people have 'written their congresscritters' and some of them have listened.*

 

The US House of Representatives refused to bring up a vote on* the recently Senate passed bit that gave immunity to the phone companies.

 

At first, this seems silly, but:

 

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The Article wrote:

"There's no reason why Republicans and Democrats in the House cannot pass the Senate bill immediately," President Bush

told reporters

Wednesday. "The House's failure to pass the bipartisan Senate bill would jeopardize the security of our citizens." The House actually did pass its own legislation,

the RESTORE Act

, back in October, but it lacked the grant of amnesty for telecom companies, and contained a variety of oversight provisions the White House regards as excessively burdensome.

 

So, at least some of us would like to shed some light on this practice.

 

At a minimum, it needs to be investigated.

 

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