Posted on 12/21/2005 6:13:04 PM PST by tsmith130
CALL HIS OFFICE AND THANK HIM!!
Stevens, Ted - (R - AK)
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Cloak Room Republican: (202) 224-6191
He is drawing the line for what happen .. he is choking uo
I bet Stevens as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee will remember the senators when they come to him for money.
"I say goodbye to the Senate tonite." Ted Stevens.
are you seriously saying that the Gorelick wall was a form of "limited government"? what do you want the government to be "limited" from doing, sharing intelligence?
Senate Judiciary chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., is interviewed by the Associated Press in his Capitol Hill office, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005. A deal preserving the expiring portions of the terror-fighting USA Patriot Act may be in the works, Specter said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Twice, the leadership in the U.S. Senate has tried to run H.R. 3199 up "the hill." Twice it has failed.
On Friday, supporters of the bill failed to garner the 60 votes needed to stop the filibuster of the PATRIOT conference report. The final vote was 52-47.
At issue for gun owners is a provision that would allow the FBI to obtain "firearms sales records." The bill extends Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act and allows agents of the federal government to get "firearms sales records" which, in their opinion, are relevant to investigating terrorism.
These records would be obtained from gun dealers, who are required by law to keep the gun purchase records (4473 forms). Thus, an anti-gun administration could then easily compile gun owner registration lists -- an enterprise which has often been a prelude to gun confiscation.
Congressmen on both sides of the fence made reference to GOA's concerns last week when the House considered the latest version of H.R. 3199.
During the debate, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) stated that people "should take note of what is happening here because the expanded police powers of the Federal Government will be used against them. Our Second Amendment friends already understand that...."
http://gunowners.org/activism.htm
Stevens, as chairman of appropriations is going to make some people pay dearly for their misdeeds. No more Mr. Nice Guy. There will be a whole new story....."Mr. Stevens goes to Washington."
And he said he'd being going home to Alaska to do some thinking. It almost sounded like he might resign.
In 6 months, if Bush keeps using the bully pulpit, there won't be much opposition left.
Frist has to vote against his own bill when the Dems threaten a filibuster, so the rules will allow him to bring it up again. He voted No for technical reasons.
I'm no fan of Frist but I don't think he is to blame for Anwar.
My husband rented a post office box last month. As far as I know, it was just as easy as the last time he did it, 4 years ago. He didn't complain about anything.
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/12/20/wekilledthepatriotact/
But, But, But.... WE KILLED THE PATRIOT ACT!
Terrorism will create severely limited government if its unchecked.
I dont think he is losing it at all; he is angry as hell and rightly so. I think he will resign fromthe Senate in January. This back-stabbing of him is the last straw; Frist should step out of his "leadership" role for what was done to Stevens today. The pubbies have no balls, none. They are nothing but whimps. I don't blame Stevens one bit for being as angry as he is....stabbed in the back by his own party. Shame on them.
I don't care for the idea of attaching non-related legislation to bills in order to sneak it through. I'm all for drilling caribou land but why is a hurricane funding bill attached to a Defense appropriations bill? It just seems like a lazy chickens#it way to do buisness.
They have to get home for the holy-days.
Sounds good to me...I hope he does just that.
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