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Broadcast Flag Sneak Not Attempted

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the should-we-celebrate-that-someone-wasn't-a-jerk dept.

Trizero writes "THOMAS, one of the best sources for Congressional action on the Internet has shown that no amendments occured to the CJS Appropriations Bill. Monday, Slashdot covered the EFF announcing a rumor that a senator was attempting to sneak an amendment to bring the Broadcast Flag into law. From THOMAS (scroll down to the bottom): "6/21/2005: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. Approved for full committee consideration without amendment favorably." Translation: No one attempted to sneak the Broadcast flag into law." Update: 06/22 18:55 GMT by J : The EFF's new Activism Coordinator, Danny O'Brien, sees this as a victory for swift citizen action. Impressive numbers. Nice work by EFF and Public Knowledge, and everyone who raised their voice.

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  1. A legislation flag? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 3, Funny
    Perhaps they should first mandate a legislation flag that sends up an alarm whenever someone tries to sneak something in like this ("Hey! Those mohair subsidies are necessary to defeat the terrorists!!!!").

    Either that, or REQUIRE that every piece of legislation be read in full on the House floor by Gilbert Gottfried, and on the Senate floor by Ben Stein before it gets voted into law. If you haven't heard it both screamed and droned, it can't be signed into law.

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  2. Sneak Not Attempted by ajkst1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    But the coach did signal for the Statue of Liberty play. The quarterback then decided to go for the play action...

  3. Re:Poor senator by Qzukk · · Score: 3, Funny

    amendments and provisions of a bill must directly relate to its topic.

    Like that will change a thing, really. It'll just mean that our bills will be titled

    "Wont somebody think of the children in Iraq and my taxes on my million dollar house are too high and random porkbarrel act of 2006"

    On the other hand, we'll quit getting stupid cutesy acronyms like PATRIOT and what not.

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  4. Re:Wait there's more! by murphyslawyer · · Score: 5, Funny
    but by enlarge it still sucks

    Hey - did you send me like 20 emails this morning?

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  5. Re:Read the Bills Act by Divide+By+Zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we pretty please title it "Read The Full Bill Act"? I just want senators hollering "RTFB!" at each other.

    If government can't be effective, it might as well be entertaining.

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  6. Re:So what happened? by drew · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since nobody else seems to have posted this yet (surprisingly)...

    Ob. Simpson's reference:

    Kent: With our utter annihilation imminent, our federal government has snapped into action. We go live now via satellite to the floor of the United States congress.

    Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of --

    Congressman: Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.

    Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill?

    [everyone boos]

    Speaker: Bill defeated. [bangs gavel]

    Kent: I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work.

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