[ale] Big Brother Wins, We lose... From /. Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0

[Randal Jarrett]

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:37 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:18 -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> > If that's true, why did this get attached to a bill that was going to 
> > see no debate, 
> 
> do you mean like 50% of the rest of the bills?  Clearly this is more
> typical than not.
> 
> > and which almost no one could vote against, 
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the vote was 100-0.  There was a vote. You may not
> like the outcome, but there was a vote.

At least there was some dissent in the House.   261-161

I wonder how many years it has been since the Senate had 100 to 0 vote
on anything?

> 
> > for fear of getting slapped with the "you don't support he troops" smear? 
> > (Never mind the budgetary slight of hand that is being exercised by the use of 
> > the DoD "suplimentary" bills, instead of putting that stuff in the 
> > budget itself.)
> > 
> > Sadly, I just don't have time today to go back and read through the 
> > whole act (and not just cited parts), to have a more reasoned, and 
> > possibly less emotional discussion.
> 
> And therein lies the problem, you are not taking the time to inform
> yourself but rather you are relying on, and re-distributing, FUD
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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> 
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