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“The chairman had a method to his ham-handedness,” said California Democratic Rep. Howard Berman.



Without any reference to the chairman except to say that he made a change that won praise. Seems someone at Reuters doesn't like him.




I think this is what the chairman did (its referred to a paragraph before the ham-handedness comment).
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Judiciary Committee Chairman James Senenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, changed the bill to guarantee direct payment, winning the praise of Democrats who had opposed the bill




Which I think would have made a lot of musicians happy as that way any payments don't simply go to the Record companies general slush fund, which was the way it would have worked before.