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and Wal-Mart.
He could have combined these into one bill. They’re sequential, after all. It’s not like Hamilton Beach came up to him one day and said “I want an exemption on import duties for automatic drip coffeemakers – but only the ones without electronic clocks!”, and then a month later came back and said “we want an exemption on import duties for automatic drip coffeemakers with clocks this time.”
Sometimes I truly believe politicians write these things just to see how absurd the process has become – just to see if they can get away with it. Kind of like the “bridge to nowhere”: can I get the U.S. Government to pay for a hundred-billion dollar plus bridge for 30 people? Answer: apparently, yes.
Phoenix, you got me laughing on this one. I work with the CO legislature and am often amazed at the strange bills introduced for ‘pet’ purposes. These, however, take the cake!
Thanks for sharing them.
BTW, I do agree with what you say about legislators introducing bills just to see if they can. It must get pretty boring in DC and I’m thinking there’s office pools that wager on the stranger of the bills.
Staffer One: “I bet you fifty dollars I can get Senator X to introduce a bill banning ice shavers”
Staffer Two: “You’re on, but double or nothing if Senator X can also introduce …”
… that maybe by introducing – what was it, a dozen? – bills, he’ll use it as a point at election time? “Senator Allen sponsored X bills, tirelessly representing the voters of Virginia.” Naturally no one will check into what those bills are about…
Though I’m not sure how worried he was about his opponent back in May. Of course now he’s got a former Secretary of the Navy within the margin of error of derailing his re-election and Presidential hopes.
Senator George Felix Allen – fighting for the rights of dual-press sandwich makers with floating upper lid and lock everywhere!
(For those who don’t follow the other state’s races too much, Jim Webb may be taking the 6th seat the Democrats need to regain control of the Senate this fall. The race is down to a 3-point margin. Democrats will almost certainly take Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, are looking good in Ohio and Montana, are neck-and-neck in Missouri, Virginia, and Tennessee, and have potential in Nevada. The Tennessee and Virginia races are particularly active right now, with recent gaffes or scandals on the GOP side. There are no seriously endangered Democratic Senate seats at this time.)
Anyone who works to suspend duty on small appliances has my vote.
15 bills to suspend import duties on very specific products – almost certainly imported by a single distributor (Hamilton Beach? It’s in VA).
Don’t these bills seem a bit targeted? Like maybe they give a certain company an advantage over other companies?
And don’t you think you could write a short bill that lists all of the affected appliances at once, rather than introducing 15 bills?
And don’t you find it interesting that not a single other Senator – not even the other Republican Senator from Virginia, John Warner – cosponsored these bills?
Has anyone asked him about it?
If I just wrote a bill that “suspends all duties on goods imported by Panasonic” or something, he’d get attacked. But, can you imagine a political ad, with dark music, and a sinester looking picture of the Senator? Then, the voice-over:
“Senator Allen proposed a bill temporarily suspending the duty on food slicers and shredders! With TOP MOUNTED motors and REPLACEABLE mixing bowls!”
Aaah, the GOP.
“I pledge to ONLY temporarily suspend duty on shredders with Bottom Mounted motors, because Top Mounted exemptions are a threat to national security.”
Their point was the in line with Phoenix’s. If you’re going to pass legislation, at least pass something meaninful, for God’s sake.
This did give me a good laugh, though. Maybe that was Allen’s point?!
53. S.3300 : A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on automatic drip coffeemakers with electronic clocks.
Sponsor: Sen Allen, George [VA] (introduced 5/26/2006) Cosponsors (None)
…to include automatic drip coffeemakers with Cukoo clocks–or would that have needed to be a completely different bil?
At least he might have moved off of the “least effective Senator” list.
isn’t this the “macaca” guy?
Allen sure sounds familiar.
What, you think just because he does one stupid thing in his political career he can’t do 15 more?