senator frank lautenberg has proposed an amendment to the "Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act 2005", i.e. the legislation that would drastically cut entitlement programs to pay for hurricane relief. of course, but for the war in iraq or the bush tax cuts, none of this legislation would be necessary, but i digress...
anyway, lautenberg's amendment would change the name of the bill to the "Moral Disaster of Monumental Proportion Reconciliation Act". "Let's call this bill what it is" says lautenberg.
the senate has not yet scheduled a vote on the amendment.
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