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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: i-node who wrote (53982)10/1/2013 3:22:06 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 85487
 

The real extortion occurred when the Senate took HR 3590, a bill that was passed by the House as "Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009". Nothing to do with health care. Because our Constitution requires that ALL revenue bills originate in the House, and Harry Reid couldn't get a bill out of the House, he gutted HR 3590, which had already passed, and put his OWN text in it. Including the title. Then passed it, and sent it back to the House where it was passed on a total party-line vote (after substantial political payoffs).

You could reasonably make all sorts of negative comments about it, but I'm not sure how "extortion" fits here. Manipulation, deceit, dubious, arguably even unconstitutional could all fit, but where does extortion come in?
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