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To: combjelly who wrote (391600)	6/16/2008 10:09:27 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573008

"In Dec 2000 then Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm placed a provision (in the actual dead of night) into a bill which exempted energy sales from regulation if such sales were made electronicly." Phil did a lot of that before he cast his lot in private industry. The fact that almost all of that legislation has turned out to be a very bad idea doesn't seem to make much difference. What's amazing is that he got away with it.

To: combjelly who wrote (391600)	6/17/2008 12:25:36 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573008

"In Dec 2000 then Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm placed a provision (in the actual dead of night) into a bill which exempted energy sales from regulation if such sales were made electronicly." Phil did a lot of that before he cast his lot in private industry. The fact that almost all of that legislation has turned out to be a very bad idea doesn't seem to make much difference. Oh, please. Every last one of them does the same crap. It is politics and that's what they do. It sucks. Jim Wright once placed a provision in a tax bill that exempted from the estate tax the estate of a friend in Ft. Worth. Sorry. But it is part of the process. This is why we need the line item veto.