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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (622438)	8/1/2011 5:45:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583879

In a way they where marginalized. Not totally, without them there wouldn't have even been an issue about extending the debt limit, it either would have happened as a so called "clean bill" without any requirements, or there might have been some quick and early small tradeoff on spending, but even smaller and less certain than in this compromise, and perhaps only in exchange for a tax increase. So even having the issue get a major hearing was in a sense a victory for them, if only a mild one so far, but they where relatively marginalized in terms of the final compromise bill (assuming it passes and actually is final, and assuming future bills for future debt limit increases aren't more favorable).