Category: congress

Previous Bills

H. Con. Res. 354 Expressing the continued support of Congress for requiring an institution of higher education to provide military recruiters with access to the institution’s campus and students at least equal inequality and scope to that which is provided to any other employer in order to be eligible for the receipt of certain Federal funds. This bill passed the House. It is interesting that they have to pass a bill to force universities to allow recruiters on campus. Something is wrong with that.

H. R. 4057 To provide that attorneys employed by the Department of Justice shall be eligible for compensatory time off for travel under section 5550b of title 5, United States Code. It takes an act of congress to get paid for travel, ridiculous. This bill was placed on union calendar, Calendar No. 212

H. R. 4942 To establish a capability and office to promote cooperation between entities of the United States and its allies in the global war on terrorism for the purpose of engaging in cooperative endeavors focused on the research, development, and commercialization of high-priority technologies intended to detect, prevent, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against acts of terrorism and other high consequence events and to address the homeland security needs of Federal, State, and local governments. Interesting bill, but it appears to be very long winded.

H. R. 4943 To prohibit fraudulent access to telephone records. Uh, isn’t this about X years late. X being the time since the telephone companies started keeping records.

H. R. 4945 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage new school construction through the creation of a new class of bond. Shouldn’t this be a local school board issue?

H. R. 4946 To prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from procuring certain items directly related to the national security unless the items are grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States. reprocessed, reused. That seems to leave things wide open, what is the purpose of this bill?

H. R. 4948 To abolish the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in the House of Representatives, establish an Independent Ethics Commission, and provide for the transfer of the duties and functions of the committee to the Commission. Shouldn’t we establish the Independent Ethics Commission. How ‘independent’ is the commission going to be?

H. R. 4949 To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit increases in fees for military health care. Uh, okay. There is this one country that didn’t support free enterprise, USSR. Oh yeah their economy collapsed, this falls under the slippery slope category. First it is the military, then Medicare funded programs, than Medicaid funded programs. Pretty soon Private health care companies are not going to pay for the price increases. DON’T DO IT!!!

H. R. 4950 To establish the Commission on Economic Indicators to conduct a study and submit a report containing recommendations concerning the appropriateness and accuracy of the methodology, calculations, and reporting used by the Government relating to certain economic indicators. Uh, talk about government getting bigger.

H. R. 4951 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to take lands in Yuma County, Arizona, into trust as part of the reservation of the Cocopah Indian Tribe, and for other purposes. Intimate domain is already a touchy subject. ‘and for other purposes’ Well that just makes it hinky.

H. R. 4956 To provide for the mandatory revocation of passports of individuals who are more than $5,000 in arrears in child support payments. Keep them bastards here, so they can not get away. I hope my friend in Omaha with kids is not that far behind. If she is, sorry.

S. 2408 A bill to require the Director of National Intelligence to release documents captured in Afghanistan or Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, or Operation Iraqi Freedom. Wow Operation Desert Storm, that is like 13 years ago. Congress has not seen them yet?