Today's action items are to continue with Monday's unresolved items.
We're hearing hints that the House vote may be after Easter recess, the week of April 4th. If that's true, how should we fill the time?
The main ideas I have on my list and have not implemented are:
Other loose ends: I know of interest in South Dakota to put together a delegation to visit Stephanie Herseth, but they need more people. Contact me if you'd like to be put in touch.
There is also an effort to visit reps in Illinois to certain representatives to unsponsor.
Here in Oregon, Wu and Hooley both deserve a visit.
Keep checking out BizzyBlog, which has some great coverage about the effects of this bill, including a rebuttal to Todd Zywicki's recent defense of the bill.
Some posts not about bankruptcy will probably show up here and there, as this blog was originally formed to be about "Politics and Technology in the United States".
Posted by tunesmith at March 15, 2005 01:33 AM
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The other thing will be to push for "open rules" on HR 685, if it makes it out of committee, so that multiple amendments can be offered. The House GOP leadership is notorious for making this more and more rare over the years (see here). I guess the Rules Committee is the place to send letters and e-mails to about "open rules" debate for HR 685.
Posted by: Thomas Nephew at March 15, 2005 07:27 AM
I have another suggestion for a line of attack. The FRB currently has a rulemaking comment period open for TIL (Reg Z) changes affecting open-end credit. I strongly suggest flooding them with a request to hold the comment period open until the end of April giving the bankruptcy bill as a reason.
See this post for information about how to comment by email or fax and how to read comments. You must comment using Docket # R-1217. The reason why this will be effective is that the credit card companies do not want substantive changes. It will cost them a great deal and cut back on some of their less ethical practices.
I will be also be posting (later this week) details on suggested specific changes to the rules.
Posted by: MaxedOutMama at March 15, 2005 09:20 AM
We can still get the thing bottled up in either the House Judiciary Committee or the House Financial Services Committee:
Here are the committee rosters, with contact links.
You know what to do.
This will take a bit of effort, but will be easier than trying to stop it once it hits the House floor. At the same time, we can encourage our people to add on the same kinds of amendments to it that the honest Democratic Senators tried to add. Granted, they'll probably get shot down by the Republicans, but then we'll have 'em on record as opposing them.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman at March 15, 2005 05:55 AM