Talk:Catch and release (Congress)

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[edit] Case study?

Should we really use most of the article space for a particular congressional case? There's no citations on the case mentioned, and all this article is for is defining a term.Umdunno 21:54, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

• I would say, if anything, that it's a candidate for Wiktionary - it also seems pretty biased toward one side of the political spectrum. --Inaxdaze 20:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I am not up on Congressional or political jargon, but I wonder whether this phrase, used in this fashion, actually occurs "in the wild" or whether the creator of the page is its creator and trying to popularize it. IMHO there should be citations of use for neologisms of this sort.

The Chris Shays example might not be ideal, but catch and release isn't something that a Congressman will admit. I recall the term being used at the end of the bio of Tom DeLay, "The Hammer."

Here are a few TAP usages

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I can't remember the story, but there's is a great incident of catch and release in Master of the Senate. Dinopup 01:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)