A drafting error, says the White House.
This was almost certainly a drafting error, an inadvertent omission.
The administration said this was "clearly a drafting error".
This was clearly a drafting error and not what Congress intended.
When the provision first emerged from the House Ways and Means Committee, lobbyists and lawyers representing Wall Street thought it was a drafting error.
Months after the law went into effect, a group of conservative lawyers discovered what was, at most, a drafting error in the law.
The use of "or" rather than "and" is likely a drafting error; however, at present the language has the effect of broadening the scope of the provision.
The decision to borrow was based on a loophole that even the authors of last year's legislation have called a drafting error in the law, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act.
Republicans and the White House explained the change to the provision about viewing evidence as, in Mr. Graham's words, "literally just a drafting error," and said the word "examine" would be restored.
In the conference report, Ernst & Whinney partners discovered a drafting error in the section allowing people who were age 50 before Jan . 1 , 1986to continue to use 10-year forward income-averaging on a single lump-sum pension plan distribution in the future.
