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Impressive to see some progress.

What are the odds of this making it to Obama's desk without losing some of the shine?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 05:55:38 AM EST
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At least some of its shine? Probably not good. As always, the House is not the problem. For now, though, the House passing this bill will do. That way we have at least one good bill going in on one side for the conference committee. The Kennedy bill is the Senate isn't as strong, but it'd be a good effort for the Senate.

Mostly the issue now is getting the Finance committee to get off its ass and pass something that can be reconciled with the Kennedy bill, then through the Senate and reconciled with the House.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Jul 15th, 2009 at 06:30:49 AM EST
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