The way this bill has been handled is like 3 monkeys tryign to fuck a greased football.
I honestly hope that this is NOT and example of how things are going to be for the next 4 (or 8) years. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/2/12/congressional-offices-dont-have-the-stimulus-bill-lobbyists-do.html > > Congressional Offices Don't Have the Stimulus Bill, Lobbyists Do > February 12, 2009 04:14 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print > > By Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers > > We're receiving E-mails from Capitol Hill staffers expressing > frustration that they can't get a copy of the stimulus bill agreed to > last night at a price of $789 billion. What's more, staffers are > complaining about who does have a copy: K Street lobbyists. E-mails > one key Democratic staffer: "K Street has the bill, or chunks of it, > already, and the congressional offices don't. So, the Hill is getting > calls from the press (because it's leaking out) asking us to confirm > or talk about what we knowbut we can't do that because we haven't > seen the bill. Anyway, peeps up here are sort of a combo of confused > and like, 'Is this really happening?'" Reporters pressing for details, > meanwhile, are getting different numbers from different offices, > especially when seeking the details of specific programs. > > Worse, there seem to be several different versions of what was agreed > upon, with some officials circulating older versions of the package > that seems to still be developing. Leadership aides said that it will > work out later today and promised that lawmakers will get time to > review the bill before Friday's vote > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288331 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
