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<p>My bet is we can all raise a toast on Saturday; or after midnight Friday.<br>
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<p>The transition is done, except for a few more days of noise.</p>
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<p>In an alternate universe where Trump did not melt down Monday, maybe we could imagine a different outcome because of Trump coincidentally adopting the Cruz view of the transition a day or two before Cruz endorsed Trump.</p>
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<p>But in this one....where the Republican leadership could not care less what Cruz says....and can barely believe who they have to pretend to be favoring as their party's presidential candidate; congrats will soon be in order.
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org <governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org> on behalf of John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [governance] ISOC-NY joins coalition of groups supporting the completion of the IANA Transition - hearing is Weds</font>
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<div>On 22 Sep 2016, at 5:06 PM, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" class="">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">On 22 Sep 2016, at 4:52 PM, John Levine <<a href="mailto:icggov@johnlevine.com" class="">icggov@johnlevine.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Please remember that this is still to be discussed on the floor, and there’s always a chance<br class="">
for amendments and/or an interesting US Congress maneuver known as a “filibuster"<br class="">
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Not going to happen, the Republicans are already complaining that the<br class="">
Dems are keeping them in session so the Reps can't go home and<br class="">
campaign for their imperilled seats.<br class="">
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I wouldn't be surprised if Cruz tries a floor amendment, but I don't<br class="">
see how it's going to succeed on the floor if it already failed in<br class="">
committee.<br class="">
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Ah, perhaps I did not provide sufficient context - this is the proposed CR text<br class="">
from the Senate _republicans_ and it is intentionally “clean”, i.e. it doesn’t include
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any riders to change spending levels. To the extent that the Senate democrats <br class="">
(who have said they won’t accept such due to issues such as the Flint MI water<br class="">
situation) want to open it up to add riders, then it is not clear if that provides an
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opportunity for introduction of the “IANA transition prohibition” clause. </div>
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<div>As many of you are no doubt already aware, the US Senate did indeed pass the above </div>
<div>mentioned Continuing Resolution and omitted any rider which would prevent the IANA </div>
<div>Stewardship transition from occurring. </div>
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<div>While we cannot be 100% certain until the stewardship transition actually happens,</div>
<div>the CR being passed without any prohibition is very good progress. The next step </div>
<div>is consideration and passage of CR in the US House – this is expected later tonight </div>
<div>or sometime tomorrow. </div>
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<div>There was a statement from Senator Cruz regarding the US Senate not stopping </div>
<div>the IANA stewardship transition: see here for specifics - </div>
<div><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/" class="">http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/cruz-slams-leadership-for-caving-on-internet-domans/</a></div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John </div>
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<div>p.s. my views alone</div>
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