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freedom fighter jh

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9. Yes, I would think what the laws says is more important than what the guy who wrote it says.

Reply to vaberella (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 06:10 AM

Apr 2012

Legislators vote on bills based on what the bill says. (Or at least they are supposed to.) If the author writes X and later says it means Y, that's meaningless -- the legislators voted on X and that's what became law.

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