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Ryan was one of only 64 House members to vote against a law requiring credit card companies to notify cardholders they were going to raise their interest rates (it passed).
CNN: What Biden had right about 'chains'
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This is one vote that can be postponed anyway--under the current screwy law, the estate tax is gradually cut, disappears entirely in 2010 and then springs back to life in 2011 in its pre-2001 incarnation.
FORBES: Deficit? What Deficit?
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The vote on the new surveillance law on June 18th was one of the closest in parliament in recent years, and was initially postponed after more than one-third of the members of parliament (MPs) voted to send the bill back to parliament's defence committee for more amendments, most of which related to safeguarding individuals' rights.
ECONOMIST: A new surveillance law causes a rumpus in Sweden