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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20081121/pl_ynews/ynews_pl158
And you thought your high school government teacher said that Congress made all the laws. These de-facto laws are called "midnight rules" or "midnight regulations" because they happen at the end -- or midnight period -- of an administration. If the rules are published in the Federal Register by Friday, Nov. 21, they'll be very hard for President-elect Obama to reverse when he gets into office. And that's the point. Sure, the administration had eight years to get a lot of this stuff accomplished. But according senior research fellow at George Mason University Veronique de Rugy, most midnight regulations "cater to special interests," and "that is why they are hurried into effect without the usual checks and balances." we just can't catch a break 
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Edited by
robert1652
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Fri 11/21/08 01:59 PM
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HEADS THEY WIN TAILS YOU LOOSE
  
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HEADS THEY WIN TAILS YOU LOOSE
heads they win and tails we lose 
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