UPDATE: I just received this from my press secretary contact:
From: SJC Majority (Judiciary-Dem)I also got this note with the forwarded email:
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 8:57 AM
To:
Subject: SJC ADVISORY: Notice of Full Committee Hearing POSTPONEMENT - 9/14/10 - "Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process"
Importance: High
For Planning Purposes
Monday, September 13, 2010
Contact: 202-224-7703
NOTICE OF FULL COMMITTEE HEARING POSTPONEMENT - The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on “Firearms in Commerce: Assessing the Need for Reform in the Federal Regulatory Process” scheduled for Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 a.m., in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building has been postponed.
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David - I wanted to alert you to the postponement of tomorrow’s “Firearms in Commerce” hearing. A Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing scheduled late Friday, coupled with a cloture vote on the Senate floor, both scheduled for the time this hearing would be underway, have posed multiple scheduling conflicts. I will keep you posted about rescheduling the hearing.
Postponed, and I haven't even gotten an answer as to agenda from my fine senator Cornyn....a request I made last week.
ReplyDeleteScenario A: Rescheduled so as to give only 48 hours notice to the entire nation (yet I'm sure a lot more notice to their Brady Bunch friends-the entire membership roll of 13 people who coincidentally make up half of Rachel Maddow's audience.)
ReplyDeleteScenario B: Rescheduled until after the November election.
I fugured they really didn't have much appetite for guns this close to the mid-terms.
ReplyDeleteGood job getting on their radar, David.
Sam
III
Ever turn a flashlight onto a rat-hole and watch them start squeaking and screaming and running?
ReplyDeleteGood job, David. It was supposed to happen under cover of darkness. Scheduling conflict, right...
ReplyDeleteSemper vigilo.
They're beginning to understand, dimly.
Sean, it may be that the sound of jangling telephones has the same effect.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't happen in over a decade of Republican't leadershit, so about all the reform we can expect is a slight decrease in the "80152-120 Destroying Len Savage" budget line.
ReplyDeleteUntil reform happens, here's some pro tips that might help you when dealing with the ATF:
* You're guilty
* Only federal agents are allowed to "misplace" machineguns bought with taxpayer funds, purchase weapons in violation of federal legislation, join organizations and suggest that the members bomb cops, lie under oath, shoot mothers holding babies, light Seventh Day Adventists on fire, stick their dicks through a glory hole on work's time, and give away free military weapons to corrupt Mexican police.
* If a gnat lands on your paperwork while an ATF agent is inspecting it, connecting the 'i' so it looks like you wrote "Missourl", expect to be in court
* When an agent collects one of your guns as evidence, he intends to hot glue an actual machinegun to it and claim it was easily converted
* "Exculpatory" is Latin for "nonexistent"
* The judge will instruct the jury that the defendant is guilty
* The Supreme Law of the Land is inadmissible in a court of law