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The same thing I think every major newspaper and blog has missed to date: that the committee chairman can pigeon hole a bill, a way of silently preventing it from even hitting the floor
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Bingo!!!
Committee chairpersons have tremendous latitude in the consideration of house bills. Most bills never see the light of day.
In 2003 Carolyn McCarthys H. R. 2038 did not get a committee hearing. H. R 3831; congressman Castles bill to extend the AWB, died the same death.
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