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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLoyal Senator Still Lying Patiently In Spot Where Beloved Bill Died
?8452WASHINGTONIn a scene that congressional staffers have called heartbreaking and difficult to witness, sources within the Capitol reported today that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is still lying patiently at the spot where S. 2685, the USA Freedom Act, died in the Senate chamber several weeks ago.
He just lays there all day curled up in a ball on the floor and sometimes scratches at the podium, like hes waiting for it to come back up for vote again, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said of the NSA surveillance reform bill, explaining that Leahy had been especially close to the legislation since the day it was drafted.
Hes there when we arrive in the chamber each morning, and hes there when we leave. We all remember how much affection and devotion he had toward that data privacy bill, so it must have been very traumatizing for him when it was suddenly struck down on a cloture vote.
Poor little guy. Legislators added that the senator still perks up his head whenever he hears a gavel banging in the hope that his beloved bill is being reintroduced on the floor.
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Loyal Senator Still Lying Patiently In Spot Where Beloved Bill Died (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Mar 2015
OP
Sometimes too much so, right? Spooky how they're almost too close to not being satire lol.
Jefferson23
Mar 2015
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Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)1. K&R
No one does it as well as The Onion.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)4. :)
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)5. Sometimes too much so, right? Spooky how they're almost too close to not being satire lol.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)2. K&R
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. lol
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)6. K & R