THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, January 28, 1995 TAG: 9501280267
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
Some rather unstatesmanlike words in a legislator's seemingly innocuous resolution to study transportation have left a bill-writer in hot water and some lawmakers embarrassed.
Sen. Charles Waddell, D-Loudoun County, proposed a study committee on auxiliary transportation services that included senators appointed by the chamber's Committee on Privileges and Elections.
But by prank or snafu, the resolution twisted the panel into the committee on ``Pilferage and Erections.''
The startling words were in the 37th line of the 44-line resolution, one of 2,130 pieces of legislation the General Assembly is considering this year. Waddell and three patrons signed off on the bill.
When the Department of Legislative Services learned what happened, Senate pages scurried around the Capitol to replace the originals with corrected copies.
Alan Wambold, who has worked in the General Assembly's legislative services department for 20 years, admitted typing in the bogus committee name as he worked from background material submitted by Waddell's office.
He wrote a letter apologizing for his ``deplorable lapse of attention.''
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