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Charles L. Cotton wrote:

Venus Pax wrote:Charles,
If I read your link correctly, both Cornyn and Hutchison voted for Section 220. Am I reading it correctly that they voted to stifle free speech of union and lobby group members?
If I'm reading this correctly, I think a letter of admonishment is in order.
I could be reading this entirely wrong. Please correct me if I am. I don't want to chastise two senators trying to help us!

No, Cornyn and Hutchison voted for the Bennett-McConnell Amendment that removed Section 220. I don't think any Republicans voted to keep Section 220.

Chas.

Yep...

TraCoun wrote:One other thing to watch out for, folks ...
If I am right, whatever the final form of this bill, if the House and Senate versions are different they will go to a conference committee. Then the committee can slip the objectionable stuff back in and shove it down our throats. If I am incorrect those more knowledgable in legislative stuff can straighten me out.
TraCoun

Well we can hope a few elected officials have grown some, and developed a spine to filibuster if it ever came to that...

But for something as "minor" as this issue is...I doubt we'd get something up to block it...A VETO for things we don't like is pretty much non-existant...

I need to check my email alerts quicker I suppose...

I'm happier than peach puddin' that this was defeated...And like another said here, I am concerned that something like this will be hidden even deeper into some bill in the future...

But with the way "right" thinking people are, I am sure it will be caught again, and hopefully people like Senators Robert Bennett (R-Utah) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will push to amend that into oblivion again...

I'm going to go out and look at that vote tally...

I would think it would be prudent to "hard" (don't link it) embed that vote count in this thread for future reference in our archive...

To me its these sneeky little (to some) things that really help you get an idea where some fence riders fall on issues...

I've heard someone say that the Second Amendment is the "reset" button for the Consitution...

One of these days that documant is so going to get bogged down with the yoke of political correctness and nanny-state regulations that it may need to be re-booted...

If some don't think its already heading in that direction, I got some pristine, primordial land over in Louisiana I wanna sell ya...