Turn on C-Span 2 Now: Dems kick ass on IRS provision. Awesome

autorank

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:04 PM
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Turn on C-Span 2 Now: Dems kick ass on IRS provision. Awesome

Byrd is speaking. The Repukes slipped a few sentences in the omnibus appropriations bill to allow Ted Stevens and staff to look at IRS returns!!!! Democrats are opening up a can of whup ass.

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aquart

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:05 PM
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1. And losing?

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grasswire

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:06 PM
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2. there are already TWO hot threads going on this

Edited on Sat Nov-20-04 07:07 PM by grasswire

Please let the conversation flow in those threads and don't dilute it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1376913

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skylarmae

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:08 PM
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3. I missed it. Who exactly was it that slipped it into the bill if

Stevens wouldn't want that authority.?? Who is fucking with this kind of bs behind the scenes?

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Old and In the Way

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:13 PM
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5. A nameless staffer.

The Republicans would never dare to do it publicly, they do this shit after hours or slip it into bills hoping no ne will notice. This is how they do their business...it's their MO.

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Old and In the Way

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Sat Nov-20-04 07:10 PM
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4. Stevens was outraged, simply outraged that this could occur.

But the Republicans objected to unanimous consent to strike it from the bill. Byrd is voting against this chicanary. Trying to resolve this in the cloak room.

Kennedy speaking now: "Breathtaking arrogance of power. It's an abuse of power." A litany of abuses.....

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