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House Passes Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act »

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The bill would allow shareholders of corporations to at least have a say in the salaries given to executives. Passage came after defeat of a Republican motion to recommit with instructions. A motion to recommit returns a bill to committee, in effect killing it; a motion to recommit with instructions is a last opportunity to amend the bill.

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bubba2
April 20, 2007, 11:39 p.m.
During the 110th Congress, Republicans have repeatedly attempted to use motions to recommit with instructions to kill bills on the verge of passage. The strategy is to institute a divisive change to the bill at the last moment, often unrelated to the original intent of the legislation, hoping that the altered bill can then be defeated on final passage.

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