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HRH Stanley Sea3/19/2010 2:50:29 pm PDT

Remember the “doc fix” memo published then pulled by Politico? From Ryan Grim @ Huffington Post:

The memo was circulated to reporters — including this one — by a spokesman to House Minority Leader John Boehner.

It was also just read on the house floor:

UPDATE 3/19 5:20pm: Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) just read from the memo on the House floor. And Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) responded by ripping him and demanding his source.

“What they’re doing is producing fake memos,” he said.

“That memo that he read from has no source. He will not return to the microphone to tell us what it was because he took something that was created by the opponents of health care — and there are a whole lot of them, mostly paid for by the health insurance industry — and came to the rostrum with a fake document,” said Weiner.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) interrupted. “Parliamentary inquiry,” she yelled.

“I don’t yield for that,” said Weiner, continuing. “There is no reluctance to talk about the real CBO score: $1.2 trillion in savings for the American people. That’s the fact. That’s nothing we’re hiding from.”

“Will the gentleman yield?”

“I will yield only if the person will tell us the source of the document.”

A chaotic back-and-forth broke out until Weiner regained the floor.

“Ladies and gentlemen, what you saw just now is a microcosm for this debate: A real piece of legislation that for a year we’ve been working on and a fake document that they won’t even give a source for,” he said.

Ryan Grim

Politico still has not republished it, Breitbart has it front page.