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(15,262 posts)Leticia Van De Putte, Texas Senator: GOP Should Be Investigated For Changing Abortion Vote Timestamp
Laura Bassett = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/leticia-van-de-putte-texas_n_3512799.html
Texas state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte (D), one of the lawmakers who stood up and defended Sen. Wendy Davis (D) after Davis' 11-hour filibuster of an anti-abortion bill on Tuesday, said the federal government will likely investigate Senate Republicans for changing the timestamp on official government documents to indicate that the bill had passed before the legislative session had ended.
"I think there will be an investigation," she told The Huffington Post in an interview. "You can't try to change a government document. The length they were willing to go to to break Senate rules -- tampering with a government document? That's a felony."
...... "They got caught by the media and by everyone trying to change the time at which the bill passed, and they didn't know how to get out of it," Van de Putte said. "I think that Republicans severely miscalculated if they thought women would go quietly into the night as they tried to pass this egregious bill."
Dewhurst's office did not respond to requests for comment ......