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In reply to the discussion: Republicans muscle tax cut bill through House [View all]Not to mention if it was done as Kerry proposed, it could only remove a set of items that taken together would look so horrible that there would not be a party line bill.
In addition, it was a tool for budgets only - and it would be removing expenditures. I don't think it could remove items that are not elements of the budget.
The Republican likely erred here by putting in too many poison pills. Sadly, they might have won the public if all they did was put the pipeline approval in - though I wonder if the fact that that is so clearly an executive branch responsibility that it might be unconstitutional. Not to mention, what does it mean - the agency has to do the appropriate work to approve or reject it and it is rather hard to legislate how long that takes. It could depend on what they find.