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Originally Posted by Necrosis
The bill did made it out of the committee on July 28th 2005.
It was "reported on" (which means it passed through the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee) to the Senate's Republican conference chair - at the time Rick Santorum - who never placed it or moved on the agenda for a floor vote. Because they did not have the 60 votes required for cloture, he and the Republican leadership let it die.
That statement has popped up from time to time. Actually, he signed onto it after about a year of the Dems stalling it in committee. As is pointed out above, it was never DOA.
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No...the bill was ordered to be reported out on July 28,2005...with an amendment in the nature of substitute. It was never reported out (do you see a check in the box - Reported by Committee ?)...perhaps because the Repub chair didnt like the substitute amendment....I really dont know
And the rest...about Santorum and cloture... is simply your revisionist history....since you have no idea how the vote broke out in the committee or what it might have been if it ever was brought to the floor. (unless you have source information that I am not aware of...Congressional Record?)
But it hardly matters anymore.
The Senate passeed a bailout bill last night by a 74-25 vote, with a few new sweeteners - tax cuts for business, increase in level of FDIC insurance, and some pork (including $$ for Alaskan fisheries) to get a few more Republican votes in the House.