On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Schatz Paquin (M. Trittipo) wrote:
> >The parentage of the West Publishing Provision, which
> >was dropped on February 10 from the Paperwork Reduction Act,
> >is a mystery.
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> Not really. Jamie Love has reported that the provision to which opponents
> attached that label came from a staffer on the chairperson's staff, and it
> was in the Chairman's Mark, approved by the subcommittee.
Well, come on now, Michael, no one seems to believe that a committee
staffer dreamed this up on his own! I think that everyone knows which
company lobbied to get the "West" provision (the name used by the
Chairman) into the bill. What people don't know is
who actually asked for it to be put into the chairman's mark. As the
democrats said, its quite amazing if Kevin Sabo has this kind of
independent power. Most people think he is just covering for someone who
doesn't want to be associated with the provision.
> In any event, the issue ought to have been what the specific statutory
> language would do or not do. Minnesota's representatives in Congress don't
> need to be the authors of statute sections in order to support good policy.
> They deserve thanks for doing what the citizens of the state elected them to do.
Yes, but citizens like to know who is supporting legislation. That's
why we make the votes public, and thats why the mark-up's are public.
Here we have a provision in Clinger's bill that Clinger claims he didn't
know anything about, and that no member of congress will admit putting
in the bill. seems odd to me, and it seems odd to many others, which is
why the press is writting stories about it.
jamie
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> Michael A. Trittipo
> Schatz, Paquin et al.
> (which represents West Publishing on some matters)
> splgh@primenet.com
> Speaking for myself
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