Sen. Stevens: "This senator does not put secret holds on bills."

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/he_said_he_said.html

He Said He Said: Republican In-Fighting Surrounds the Secret Hold

After Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was officially outed for holding back a bill allowing the public easy web access to government contracts, new tensions are rising between old rivals about what really happened.

Aaron Saunders, Sen. Stevens' spokesperson, tells ABC News that after the bill passed the Homeland Security Committee, Stevens placed a hold on the bill to give his staff time to submit questions and hear responses from Sen. Coburn, the lead sponsor on the bill. "There was nothing secret about it," Saunders said.

When asked to respond to the widely blogged speculation that Stevens kept the hold secret, Saunders said they notified Coburn's staff so it was not really a secret. Saunders then quoted Stevens, "This senator does not put secret holds on bills."

According to John Hart, Communications Director for Sen. Coburn, "That's completely false. We had to do our own detective work to discover it was Stevens who placed the bill on hold."

[AndyA]

1. I'm shocked - shocked I tell you! That Sen. Stevens would LIE about this!

A good Republican lying about something they did. IMAGINE! :rofl:

Here's a challenge for you: Try to find a good Republican who HASN'T LIED - now that will be a real miracle.

[MADem]

2. MANY have used that 'secret hold' privlege

On BOTH sides of the aisle through history. It's a bit of paper pushing arm twisting to get concessions on other issues.

The lie is stupid. Acting like this shit doesn't happen all the time is crazy, too.

[Ian David]

3. Stevens sent Coburn an internet, but it got clogged-up in the tubes. n/t

[TlalocW]

4. Stevens is just worried

That the new system for searching through contracts will clog the tubes because we'll be dumping more stuff on the internets as if it were a truck, which it's not! It's not a truck!

TlalocW

[sharp_stick]

5. It's such great fun

to watch assholes like this have a little slap-fight now and then. These wads of used toilet paper behave worse than toddlers.