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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sholom, post: 575982, member: 17753&quot;]My understanding . . . and I could be wrong . . . is that the palladium deal is not the mint&#039;s fault, but the Senators from Montana.</p><p><br /></p><p>The senior Senator from Montana offerred the bill, and the other senator co-sponsored it.&nbsp; It&#039;s bill S-758.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can track the bills progress <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-758" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-758" rel="nofollow">here</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you go to the website, you can see that it was introduced April 1, and referred to committee.&nbsp; Being referred to committee is standard procedure.&nbsp; It should be noted that most bills never make it out of committee.&nbsp; I have no idea whether that will hold for this bill.</p><p><br /></p><p>We can use that website to track it&#039;s progress.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Update:</b> I just discovered this -- the <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2924" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2924" rel="nofollow">same bill was introduced last year</a>, and never made it out of committee.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, everybody, here&#039;s a quiz.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone guess where the _only_ two palladium mines are in the US?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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