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"Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Tuesday that the majority leader “intends to revisit the issue at some point later in the future.” A House Democratic aide close to the negotiations on the bill echoed what Senate staffers had earlier suggested: The Senate should return to the issue in September giving voters and independent groups time to pressure on-the-fence senators during the August recess, while also drawing attention, closer to Election Day, to Republicans’ “siding with corporations.”“Quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to bring this up again in September, when you give it a chance to crystallize the position of Democrats as standing for the public’s interest and Republicans [as standing] against it,” the aide said. “You let this vote sit out there for six weeks in these senators’ states — there are a lot of good government groups where this is their top priority — and you build an aggressive campaign highlighting these senators’ vo
tes on
this, and you pressure them to change their minds.”
"Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Tuesday that the majority leader “intends to revisit the issue at some point later in the future.” A House Democratic aide close to the negotiations on the bill echoed what Senate staffers had earlier suggested: The Senate should return to the issue in September giving voters and independent groups time to pressure on-the-fence senators during the August recess, while also drawing attention, closer to Election Day, to Republicans’ “siding with corporations.”“Quite frankly, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to bring this up again in September, when you give it a chance to crystallize the position of Democrats as standing for the public’s interest and Republicans [as standing] against it,” the aide said. “You let this vote sit out there for six weeks in these senators’ states — there are a lot of good government groups where this is their top priority — and you build an aggressive campaign highlighting these senators’ vo
tes on
this, and you pressure them to change their minds.”
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