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Friday, September 29, 2006

Quoting an R

I don't often find Republican quotes to be worth quoting here, but I have one I need to share. CQ had this tidbit on the congressional hearings on HP's devious internal spy scandal:
“Pretexting is pretending to be someone you’re not, to get something you probably shouldn’t have, to use in a way that is probably wrong,” said full committee chairman Joe L. Barton, R-Texas.
The Energy and Commerce committee approved a bill in March to make pretexting illegal, but the measure has stalled. Barton said he was urging the House leadership to pass it before the end of the year.