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----- Forwarded by Steven J Kean/NA/Enron on 10/16/2000 10:27 AM ----- Cynthia Sandherr 10/12/2000 07:43 PM To: Thomas E White/HOU/EES@EES, Bill Votaw/HOU/EES@EES, John Carr/HOU/EES@EES, Laren Dean Tarbet/HOU/EES@EES, Robert Frank/NA/Enron@Enron, Robert C Williams/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Peggy Mahoney/HOU/EES@EES, bmoss@gcpn.com, Allison Navin/Corp/Enron@ENRON cc: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hillings/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Senate Action on DOD Conference Report Tonight by a vote of 91/2 (although Senator Wellstone was asking to switch his vote; so the final vote may end up being 90/3) the Senate passed the Conference Report on the DOD Reauthorization, H.R. 4205. With the overwhelming majority votes in both the House and Senate this week, the bill will now be enrolled and sent to the President for signature. Although the statutory language and report language is a clear victory for EFS; we did not in the end have the draft colloquy entered into the record regarding the enforcement interpretation. Seems EEI's lawyers had submitted a colloquy of their own. Thus, our colloquy successfully served the purpose of blocking theirs which we should list as a "victory" given that their colloquy would have been damaging to us. So in the end, Enron achieved all its legislative goals while EEI was unsuccessful in even gaining a statement for the record. Off the record, we did gain acceptance for the issue raised in our colloquy by DOD and they stand ready to defend their enforcement authority; possibly at the upcoming NARUC meeting. Bill signature; and thus, Public Law enactment, could occur as early as next week. We will keep you advised as to when this occurs. Again, congratulations to the team for a successful legislative effort against some stiff odds.
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