It’s worth noting that the “Istook Amendment” (see the last post about the technical issue of whether it’s an ‘amendment’ or a ‘provision’) was discovered in the appropriations bill by a staffer for North Dakota’s Kent Conrad. And Conrad is right at the top of the list of senators the GOP is going to try to knock out in 2006.
That, presumably, will clear the way for other middle-of-the-night Istook Amendments.