Posted by
cehwiedel on Friday, November 03, 2006 9:07:33 AM
A complimentary article about Senator Feinstein in yesterday's deadtree edition of the
Los Angeles Times included this near the end:
Another area is which Feinstein may have new influence [after the upcoming election] is voting procedures. Because of her rising seniority, she is in line to become chairwoman of the Rules Committee if Democrats take the majority. The Rules Committee, in addition to being in charge of Senate administration, also has jurisdiction over election procedures and campaign finance.
That would be election procedures nationwide, not just within the Senate. Back to the article:
Feinstein said one of her first orders of business if she became chairwoman [me: chairwoman? not chair? how unPC!] would be to start a review of the election process — whether electronic voting is reliable, whether paper records need to be kept, whether changes are needed in campaign finance rules.
Please,
please save us from further regulation of campaign financing. More from the article:
"The time has come to look at this patchwork of election laws across the country and set national standards," Feinstein said. "It has created a really unstable voting system across America."
That patchwork is federalism, Senator Feinstein. Setting national standards is arrogating still more local authority to the centralized national government. Bad Idea, with capital letters.
It is highly unlikely that Senator Feinstein will be defeated on Tuesday. So, to keep our senior Senator from excercising authority as new chair
woman of the Rules committee, we need to see
Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania re-elected, for instance.
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California Senate Delegation Squidoo Lens.
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