Congressman Jim Davis has a reputation.

He almost never gets angry.

But Davis is about to get some news that will make his blood boil.

I had gone to dinner with a family friend in Washington, and I got a phone call in the middle

of dinner, and it was Congressman

Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Davis is a Florida Democrat. Wasserman Schultz would later rise to chair

the Democratic National Committee. But when she interrupts Davis's dinner in March 2005,

she's a freshman, in Congress for less than three months.

And she called to tell me that she was very upset because she had just found out that

there was a plan to bring a bill to Congress on an extremely expedited basis.

On the phone, Wasserman Schultz tells Davis that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is set to fast-track

a bill meant to save Terry Shibo's life.

Delay plans to call a vote without a floor debate or a quorum.

That's not a huge deal.

Congress waives the rules all the time. But Davis feels this vote is

outrageous. In his view, the U.S. House is about to trample on matters already decided in a state court.

It was one of the most significant examples of abuse by government I'd ever seen.

He tells Wasserman Schultz.

I understand this issue well enough to know we need to stand up and fight this.

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