Iraq: testing the Murtha plan in the Senate
by skeptic06, Mon Feb 19, 2007 at 12:51:46 PM EST
Let's take one element of the puzzle, and play around with it.
Suppose the Iraq supplemental bill passes the House with the Murtha Proviso attached.
(Of course, right we only know what the proviso will say in the most general terms. That doesn't matter for present purposes.)
The bill comes over to the Senate, and gets referred to the corresponding committee to Murtha's.
Now, with Byrd as chairman of Apps, there's no way, surely, that the Proviso won't get the nod.
So - Byrd reports out the bill with a substitute - an amendment which replaces everything after the enacting clause - which includes the text of the Proviso.
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