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		<title>Congress Bans Umezawa’s Jitte In Standard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; After years of lobbying, protests and partisan bickering, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to ban Umezawa’s Jitte in all Standard and Kamigawa block tournaments Thursday.
A similar bill is expected to pass in today’s Senate session.
Democrats, who have been widely criticized for failing to make good on the promises of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; After years of lobbying, protests and partisan bickering, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to ban Umezawa’s Jitte in all Standard and Kamigawa block tournaments Thursday.</p>
<p>A similar bill is expected to pass in today’s Senate session.</p>
<p>Democrats, who have been widely criticized for failing to make good on the promises of the 2006 election, framed the ban as proof they have finally taken charge in Washington.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our long national nightmare is finally over,&#8221; said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).</p>
<p>&#8220;We have heard the outcry, and make no mistake, this Congress is committed to tackling the issues that matter to the American people,&#8221; Schumer said.</p>
<p>Senator and Presidential hopeful Barack Obama saw the victory as more personal.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bethany Thom is a single mother I met in Tennessee,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;She has five kids. Works two jobs — neither of which gives her health insurance. Her adjustable rate mortgage payment just tripled.</p>
<p>&#8220;Where is she going to get maindeck artifact removal?&#8221; Obama asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;This bill does nothing for the real sufferers,&#8221; retorted presidential hopeful Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH).</p>
<p>&#8220;I propose creating a new, non-profit DCI to visit every kitchen table in America and make sure the letter and spirit of this law are followed,&#8221; Kucinich said.</p>
<p>Kucinich then added, &#8220;Ext no counter/discard/ld/mass effects.&#8221;</p>
<p>This was the first major news on the issue since two years ago, when a Republican-backed bill, which would have allocated $150 million to distribute Manriki-Guisaris in public schools, failed by a wide margin.</p>
<p>Umezawa’s Jitte rotated out of the Standard format in 2006.</p>
<p>&#8220;Make no mistake, I will veto any bill that weakens America’s fighting men,&#8221; declared President Bush from a makeshift podium at his Crawford ranch.</p>
<p>&#8220;The only people who want Jitte banned are America’s enemies, and that’s terrorists and scrubs,&#8221; Bush said.</p>
<p>The president then tripled in size, gained eight life and killed everyone in the room.</p>
<p>Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) raised her fists three-quarters of the way above her head for photographers as she left Capitol Hill today on her way to the annual conference of the New Hampshire Pancake Association.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell Tsuyoshi Fujita,&#8221; Clinton declared slowly once a microphone was rolled in front of her, &#8220;that once again, American ingenuity and American communities are the best combo in Standard.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dragonstorm was unavailable for comment.</p>
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