Posted on 11/21/2004 5:21:35 PM PST by ConservativeMan55
FLASH: Rep. Istook, R-Okla. was responsible for the insertion of the provision... Developing...
-- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that "accountability will be carried out" against whoever slipped a provision into an omnibus spending bill that would have allowed two committee chairmen to view the tax returns of any American.
What do you mean 30 yrs. ago the bitch hasn't changed her spots she still thinks she's better able to run your life than you are.
If it is him he's got to go. What the hell was he thinking?
If it was his staff he's got to clean house immediately. What the hell were they thinking?
Omnibus bills are a dumb idea.
Right. Never said she changed. The rest of 'em don't change much either.
Maybe I'm just jaded by politics, but I honestly thought something like this was already possible. Surely, if (for example) terrorism is suspected with one or more individuals, law enforcement and government officials would have been able to get the tax info regardless of this provision introduced by Istook?
Details, please. I'm needing ideas for my next blog article.
If it was a staffer, it just shows the incompetancy on the part of elected officials that runs rampant in the halls of Capitol Hill.
Somebody mentioned Istook's name earlier, before Drudge posted this. No source was given.
I wonder if he was set up? If the bill is that big, how did the people who complained about it find it and object to it, unless they knew about it from a leak from Istook's office, or maybe even fed it to them?
Pure speculation at this point, I suppose.
found at: http://www.dailyinterlake.com/articles/2004/11/21/ap/headlines/d86gjb980.txt
Lawmakers Hold Out Hope for Intel Bill
Posted: Sunday, Nov 21, 2004 - 05:05:12 pm PST
By JIM ABRAMS
SNIP
But there will be a delay in getting President Bush's signature. The hang-up is because of a single line in the bill that would have given two committee chairmen and their assistants access to people's income tax returns.
The Senate approved a resolution nullifying the idea; House leaders promised to pass it on Wednesday. Then, the spending bill will head to the White House.
"I have no earthly idea how it got in there," Frist said on "Fox News Sunday." "But, obviously, somebody is going to know, and accountability will be carried out."
Frist referred to the bill Saturday night as the "Istook amendment," and congressional aides said it was inserted at the request of Rep. Ernest Istook Jr., R-Okla.
Istook, chairman of the House Appropriations transportation subcommittee, said in a statement Sunday that the Internal Revenue Service drafted the language, which would not have allowed any inspections of tax returns. "Nobody's privacy was ever jeopardized," the statement said.
I don't like them for this simple fact. People are always trying to slip things into it.
There are many Republicans who have become RINOS and not because they are liberal.
So, is this all a big to-do over nothing?
Tinfoil?,I think not.
Be nice if freepers waited for all the facts before bashing anyone!
Wow!
This could be big! That could completely jeopardize her 08 run.
Istook just proved he had no clue what HIS OWN amendment included. Instead of fiddling around and luncheons and cocktail parties, these people the voters send to do the peoples work should do the peoples work and not hob-knob with media elites and Hollyweird clowns in their off hours.
bttt
Don't you just love it when "they" call for an investigation on who did it? (Which by the way, whoever did it should pay) whoever signs onto something like this should pay too, wonder if they ever thought of that??
"They" LOL!!!
"Probably some little Yalie on the staff."
I didn't know there were any Republicans at Yale for a GOP Congressman to hire.
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