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Record cleans up Congress for history
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 | By Charles Hurt

Posted on 05/24/2005 1:03:26 AM PDT by JohnHuang2

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Only in this town of lawyers along the Potomac can politicians utter statements that were, according to official history, never spoken. When writing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers mandated the recording of Congress' proceedings, but its form was left to the lawmakers who established the Congressional Record and the rules that allow them to clean up regretful remarks, miscues and misstatements before they are published. One day last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, spoke about one of President Bush's filibustered nominees and said the nominee probably would think something was "God awful."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; congress; congressionalrecord; filibuster; govwatch; ushouse; ussenate

1 posted on 05/24/2005 1:03:27 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

Might as well rewrite history on the fly instead of waiting for the libs to do it later. More efficient.


2 posted on 05/24/2005 1:11:55 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not everything that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: JohnHuang2
the Founding Fathers mandated the recording of Congress' proceedings

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821

Or, as I like to say it, History is lies agreed upon.

3 posted on 05/24/2005 4:40:28 AM PDT by MosesKnows
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To: anyone

instead of waiting for the libs to do it later. ....

Why not?--they own both the PEN and the PAPER now?? What better position to be in??

We have enough VOTES to try to change that!...or at least we
HAD enough votes....then along came the ugly head of compromise in the form of 7 RINOS....

My Grandmother could have done Frist's job!! and she's been dead for 12 years.


4 posted on 05/24/2005 5:48:40 AM PDT by AirBorn
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