TPMmuckraker December 18, 2006 08:40 AM
Reid Does His Own “Dead-of-Night” Legislation
“Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, who has pledged to stop ‘dead-of-night legislating,’ did a little of his own in the final hours of this year’s congressional session.”Reid slipped two home state projects into the last major bill Congress passed last week: a transfer of federal land in Nevada to state and private control that’s almost two-thirds the size of Rhode Island; and a $4 million grant for a hospice. Neither had been approved by any congressional committee.
I ask you, did anyone really expect the new guys to be any different than the old ones?