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To: LindyBill who wrote (76702)2/23/2003 6:01:33 AM
From: KLP  Respond to of 281500
 
The only thing that would be funnier than that, LB, is if the medical benefits and retirement packages they vote themselves were made available to the general public at the same cost as they pay...

KLP@thereouttabealaw.oopsthere'splentyofthem

Robert Matsui was "surprised by [the] fine print" in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. Matsui, the California representative who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, confesses, "I didn't realize what all was in it."



To: LindyBill who wrote (76702)2/23/2003 6:02:45 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Alot of the legislation is so big with riders and amendments, that its not POSSIBLE to read it. They trot it out in boxes and let the Congressmen gaze upon its collected glory on the House or Senate floor before carting it away again. Madness.

Derek