Senators nix filming for HBO's 'K Street'

[demdave]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In a letter to their colleagues, Senate leaders are putting their foot down on the shooting of behind-the-scenes footage in the Capitol's corridors for use in "K Street," an experimental new HBO series about Washington lobbyists.

The chairmen of the Senate Rules Committee and Ethics Committee -- Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, and George Voinovich, R-Ohio -- sent a letter to their colleagues reminding them that Senate rules "strictly prohibit the use of Capitol and Senate space for any commercial or profit-making purpose." The ranking Democrats on both committees also signed the letter.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/hbo/index.html

[short bus president]

1. Almost wanna laugh at the

irony. Almost.

"Senate rules 'strictly prohibit the use of Capitol and Senate space for any commercial or profit-making purpose.'"

Lott just needs to be fucking skinned alive and rolled in lime juice. What a fucking subhuman slime.

[demdave]

2. The ranking Democrats on both committees also signed the letter.

I think none of them want the average person to know how the behind the scene deals work.

[snooper2]

3. Or..

The behind the scenes hand jobs... :)

[AP]

5. Yeah. All the Republicans are going to have to resign now.

Or they'll have to work from home.

[StandWatie]

8. you would think he would have a hard time keeping a straight face

[Zhade]

4. Trent Lott preaching ethics is like Hitler preaching racial tolerance.

NT!

[short bus president]

10. actually,

it's rather like Trent Lott preaching racial tolerance. Just think - we never would've had all these problems if Strom Thurmond had been elected.

[bushisanidiot]

6. Trent Lott is a Farking Cry Baby!

If the right can't control the media then they don't want any part of it. Chickensh*t bastards.

[reprobate]

7. But the senate IS a profit making place.

Without the profit motive not one of them would be there. It's called 'campaign financing'.

[mbperrin]

11. No shit!

nt

[alfredo]

9. Why don't they rent the

Washington Mall like Pepsi did?