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How things work now. Read. Weep for America. Boston.com / News / Nation / Back-room dealing a Capitol trend: "'The fix was in,' Leach said in an unusual rebuke of his GOP colleagues on the House floor. 'The power groups did not want this to happen. In my time in Congress, this is the greatest microcosm evidence of special-interest reasoning that does not even allow debate on this subject in an amendment on the House floor.'"