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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-05 07:24 PM
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498. Here is an idea:
Remember this WP article?

Only hours after Rep. Roy Blunt was named to the House's third-
highest leadership job in November, he surprised his fellow top
Republicans by trying to quietly insert a provision benefiting
Philip Morris USA into the 475-page bill creating a Department of
Homeland Security, according to several people familiar with the
effort.

The new majority whip, who has close personal and political ties to
the company, instructed congressional aides to add the tobacco
provision to the bill -- then within hours of a final House vote --
even though no one else in leadership supported it or knew he was
trying to squeeze it in.

Once alerted to the provision, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's chief of
staff, Scott Palmer, quickly had it pulled out, said a senior GOP
leader who requested anonymity. Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.)
also opposed what Blunt (Mo.) was trying to do, the member said,
and "worked against it" when he learned of it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?
pagename=article&contentId=A41839-2003Jun10¬Found=true
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