t members of the House reading it due to time restrictions, and the lack of copies being distributed for the reading of it (Village Voice, para 5).
             The Senate Judiciary Committee suffered the same pressure tactics. The Senate passed their own version of the anti-terrorist bill 96 to 1, also with most members not reading the 243-page document (Village Voice, para 9)
             In all other cases when there is a disagreement between two pieces of similar legislation, there is a conference between the House and Senate Committees to negotiate. Copious notes and transcribed records are kept of these meetings to ensure that when there is a challenge to any particular portion of a piece of legislation, the intent can be deciphered by the legal branch in order to adjudicate the legalities. No notes were made of these meetings. Consequently, the judiciary branch has also been bypassed in the haste of the process, and in what appears to be a knee-jerk reaction to the September 11th tragedy Barney
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