Bill Enrollment Errors Breed Partisan Suspicions

By Don Wolfensberger
Roll Call Contributing Writer

June 16, 2008

The recent “glitch” in the enrollment of the farm bill raised Republican suspicions of partisan skullduggery. In truth, it appears to have been nothing more than a clerical (or computer) error. But the episode illustrates how much partisanship has corroded the steel bonds of trust in Congress.

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