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Re: House National Security committee guts SAFE, worse than no bill




At 09:12 PM 9/12/97 -0700, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
>Don't count on the language being yanked in Judiciary.  The real "only 
>hope" is actually an incredibly low tech and unsexy thing called "time."
>
>The 105th Congress wants to split early, possibly in three weeks!  Yes, 
>three weeks (hard working lot, eh?)  There is no way this bill gets 
>through the Rules committee with multiple versons floating around and 
>then gets brought to the floor for a vote... won't happen.

Are you sure about this? Traditionally, anti-civil liberties legislations
is passed by well over 90% of the vote only days before Congress adjourns.


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