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The hypocrisy resident in this decision is staggering, but then we have seen these carve-outs in previous attempts so should not be overly surprised.
This time Goodlatte has quite adroitly side-stepped prior failing issues by simply ignoring them or giving the authority to decide to states and Justice officials - he's obviously been doing a lot of footwork on this project of his.
The fat lady has not yet sung, however. This marked up version of the Bill still has to be accepted on the House floor, then the Senate and finally the president.
I see there is already talk of combining the two Bills (Goodlatte and Leach) which is something that a few of the savvy folks in Washington predicted would happen to avoid one conflicting with the other.
This is a (negative) step forward for Goodlatte, but there's a way to go yet.
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