Edwards blocks GIs' loan break

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>Edwards blocks GIs' loan break
By Charles Hurt
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. John Edwards, North Carolina Democrat, is single-handedly blocking Senate action on legislation all but unanimously supported by the House to ease the student-loan burden for soldiers fighting overseas.
In April, the House voted 421-1 to pass the HEROES Act, which essentially would defer student loans for soldiers called into action. The only dissenting vote was cast accidentally by one of the bill's sponsors.
The bill is stalled in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under a &quot;secret hold,&quot; said Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican and chairman of the committee.

Yesterday, however, Mr. Briggs acknowledged that his boss was stalling the bill. (http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030630-113746-7072r.htm)</span>

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Guess someone gave Edwards a knife and now hes trying to cut his own throat. A Senator from one of the biggest military states in the Union and he wants to play with them. Hes toast as far as I'm concerned - he will never be president and according to statewide news here in NC his chances of being re-elected to the senate are getting real slim. In fact one of the biggest democratic fund raisers is supporting a republican candidate for the senate slot that Edwards now fills.

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He even claimed that he didn't know it!! Then, when it was pointed out to him that it was wrapped up with something else, he claimed he wasn't doing it on purpose. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/shake.gif

At the very time our military ought to get all of our support in every way, how can anyone in a place of responsibility be so downright STUPID http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

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Quote[/b] ]The bill is stalled in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee under a &quot;secret hold,&quot; said Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican and chairman of the committee.

Secret Hold?

I'm almost expecting Kent Dorfman, Larry Kroger and Bluto Blutarsky to roll in a keg and declare &quot;Super Double Secret Probation&quot; on Edwards and his group of idiots.