Sure do miss Paul Wellstone now.......this bill would kill him.

[MsUSA]

As the Senate kicked off its debate this week, opponents of the bill were lamenting the loss of the late Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, who in 1998 cast the lone vote of dissent against the bill and then used procedural tactics to singlehandedly hold it up.

"He was always there for a good fight on this bill," said Travis Plunkett, legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America, an advocacy group.

Wellstone called the bill "a nightmare for vulnerable families." In a book he wrote shortly before his death in 2002, he cited his work on the bill as a "case study of playing defense," using delaying tactics to block a bill that clearly had majority support.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/5270437.html

[katinmn]

1. He was a one man band.

Contact Coleman and Dayton on this if you haven't already. We know how they will vote but don't let Coleman say he never heard from us.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1635149&mesg_id=1635149

[dflprincess]

2. Done

not that emailing the Weasel will do any good.

[katinmn]

3. I heard on AAR that Coleman didn't support the bill in its present form

At first I was glad then realized he is probably using his vote in order to do some other damage to working people in another bill.

[dflprincess]

4. The Strib reported he'd vote for it

n/t

[katinmn]

5. I assume he will. The Republicans are intentionally muddying

the waters, saying one thing in public and voting the opposite and counting on the fact no one is watching them. It's not just Republicans. Biden's one of a handful of Dems voting against Dem amendments that would make the brankruptcy law changes less hurtful to people.


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