Debating the “William H. Frist, M.D., Federal Courthouse”
Tennesseans are raising questions about the timing of an amendment added to a federal spending bill that would name a new federal courthouse in Nashville after Majority Leader Bill Frist . Dick Williams, the chairman of the Tennessee chapter of Common Cause, says, “I have a general problem with naming a federal courthouse after a person who is at least considering running for president.” He adds: “I think it is best to wait until people have really retired.”
Lincoln Davis, a democratic congressman from Tennessee, tells the Knoxville News Sentinel he wants the courthouse named after James Sasser, the longtime senator who Frist unseated in 1994. “He did so much, and I don’t know of a single building named after him,” Davis said. “There will be plenty of time to name buildings after current members of Congress.”
The amendment, which passed the Appropriations Committee, calls for the building to be named the “William H. Frist, M.D., Federal Courthouse.” The federal courthouse in Knoxville, by the way, is named the “Howard H. Baker Jr. Federal Courthouse” after the erstwhile senate majority leader.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2006/10/10/debating-the-william-h-frist-md-federal-courthouse/
Wrong choice for a name for a courthouse..
2 comments:
Just be glad that your owner doesn't called Dr. Frist for house calls to examine you! LOL!
Frist is a crook, liar and Quack why oh why would anything be named after him. Maybe a new bill for stop crooks like him from being a Senator in the first place. At lease he's leaving when the house of cards is falling.
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