Fri Jun 18, 2010 at 04:00:00 PM EDT
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Congressman Scott Garrett was surprised the other day when in a committee meeting, Barney Frank unexpectedly decided to support Garrett's amendment that would reduce the power of rating agencies by requiring all federal agencies to remove any references to them in all regulation. Here's how it went down and check out Garrett's reaction:But Garrett's office wasn't expecting the amendment to pass - Republican staffers on both the House and Senate sides told me last week that their Democratic counterparts told them, privately, not to expect any Republican amendments to pass. But Garrett was in for a shock when Frank interrupted him 30 seconds into his introduction of the amendment to declare that he would support it. After taking a quick voice vote, Frank declared that the ayes had prevailed. "I have some more amendments if you'd like to do them that way," Garrett joked. That's probably why they didn't tell Garrett in advance, because they knew he'd have more amendments. |
| Jason Springer :: Garrett shocked to see his amendment pass |
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