The proposed legislation next goes to the Commerce Committee Wednesday, and McCain hopes to take it to the Senate floor Friday.

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Lest there be any lingering doubt, however, that politicians need the sort of pointed reminder the Minutemen are currently offering that, as they say in the movies, the American people are "mad as hell and not going to take it any more, " consider the likely scenario on the floor of the United States Senate this week.

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Visitors to the area could buy E on any street corner and take it on any dance floor.

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