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Dec. 21st, 2005 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusTed Stevens (Senator, R-Alaska) has been fighting since 1980 to open up Alaska's protected lands for oil development. He recently attached a measure to the effect to a "must-pass" defense and Katrina relief bill. Dems fillibustered, and showed that no bill is must-pass, and the measure will be removed before the bill goes forward (and before the Senate gets to see their families for the holidays).
Article here (hmmm...original link broken -- Google "ted stevens oil defense" and you'll find a bit, but I can't find the article to which I originally linked), and I'll point out that Stevens claimed it was not an unrelated measure: "He called the development of ANWR’s oil a matter of national security because the country needs all the domestic oil it can get, said it was a fitting subject for defense legislation and dismissed environmentalists’ arguments that drilling would jeopardize the refuge’s wildlife."
This is why you cannot restrict riders to "related matters." -- it just makes the politians creative.
Article here (hmmm...original link broken -- Google "ted stevens oil defense" and you'll find a bit, but I can't find the article to which I originally linked), and I'll point out that Stevens claimed it was not an unrelated measure: "He called the development of ANWR’s oil a matter of national security because the country needs all the domestic oil it can get, said it was a fitting subject for defense legislation and dismissed environmentalists’ arguments that drilling would jeopardize the refuge’s wildlife."
This is why you cannot restrict riders to "related matters." -- it just makes the politians creative.
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Date: 2005-12-22 04:31 pm (UTC)If those deals became law, yes. Otherwise the Constitution and a bunch of other rather nice things would be thrown out along with the dirty bathwater.