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In article <ww3.93.005FCCBD@global.org>, ww3@global.org (Wynn Wagner III) writes:
|> Power plays at the end of a session can use strategies 
|> that wouldn't work at other times.  In this case, Mr. Gramm simply had to 
|> threaten to ammend the bill.

Again, by what mechanism does he have the power to do this single-handedly?
Can any Senator amend any bill at any time?  Any member of the appropriate
committee?  Or does the chairman or the majority of the committee have to
agree?  What are the rules?

|> The net result is that the Senate didn't have a chance to go through the 
|> required floor debates (or committee hearings) for an ammendment.  And, in the 
|> slim coincidence that his ammendment passed, it would have thrown the bill 
|> into a House/Senate Conference Committee to resolve the differences between 
|> the two bills.

|> The word "obstructionist" keeps coming to mind here.

Well gee, if they didn't try to rush these things through at the end of 
session, maybe they would have time to resolve these differences.  How can
you charge "obstructionism" without knowing what Mr. Gramm's objections to
the bill were?

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