The future, however, is uncertain. The bill now goes to the House Rules committee, whose chairman said today in a strongly-worded letter that he'd only allow a bill to go to the floor if it included Oxley's amendment. Look for a hell of a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying on this now...
-Declan
What's the path? Given the multiple committees, is there a prescribed sequence or do they work in parallel? What about the Senate bills? Suppose Solomon allows SAFE to go to the floor. Does SAFE need to be reconciled somehow with any Senate bill? Could Oxley's amendment could be made on the floor, with little or no warning? In some sort of conference committee? I'd love to see a simple map/diagram of all the inflection points where the FBI/NSA forces can further twist SAFE. Call it morbid curiosity. Last year's model was bad, and it's only gotten worse. Lee