SVN For Congressional Bills
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 7, 2007 at 3:07:05 PM
We need a CVS/SVN repo for these nutty congressional bills. It seems that not even the senators read the changes before approving them. This is NOT HOW OUR COUNTRY SHOULD WORK. We need politicians that READ BILLS BEFORE SIGNING INTO LAW. What I am saying is not crazy, it should be STANDARD PRACTICE.
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On Feb. 6, when the Senate held hearings on the issue of prosecutorial independence, former judiciary committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., proudly claimed to have been as clueless as the rest of us. Denying New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer's claim that he or his staff had "slipped the new provision into the Patriot Act in the dead of night," Specter asserted, "The first I found out about the change in the Patriot Act occurred a few weeks ago when Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein approached me on the floor." Specter added that he only looked into how the provision was altered after Feinstein told him about it. As he explained, "I then contacted my very able chief counsel, Michael O'Neill, to find out exactly what had happened. And Mr. O'Neill advised me that the requested change had come from the Department of Justice, that it had been handled by Brett Tolman, who is now the U.S. attorney for Utah, and that the change had been requested by the Department of Justice because there had been difficulty with the replacement of a U.S. attorney in South Dakota."