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The introductory text of the bill asserts that it is designed to
improve police accountability, however the actual language of the bill
contains no provisions that would force police departments to
investigate complaints or dictate any type of process that would
improve accountability at all. In essence, it only gives police
officers more rights and communities fewer rights in how they can
police their own police.
HR 2749 Authorizes International Take-Over of Domestic Food Production
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi moves in a rarefied world of high society and high-level politics — and nothing underscores that fact quite like her plans for the August recess.
Pelosi will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California.
The House Financial Services committee voted moments ago to ban pay practices at financial firms that encourage "inappropriate risk," one of the government's boldest moves into the private sector.
The vote by the committee, chaired by Rep. Barney Frank
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday voted to approve Sonia
Sotomayor as the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice over nearly solid
Republican opposition, paving the way for a historic confirmation vote
next week.
The Senate ethics committee has interviewed a former Countrywide Financial executive who testified under oath that Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Kent Conrad
(D-N.D.) were aware that they were accessing a special program to give
below-market-rate mortgages to the powerful and famous when he arranged
their loans, according to the executive's attorneys.
Gardner Goldsmith offers his study of the economic history of government regulations forcing health insurance companies to issue policies regardless of the risks the clients pose due to their age or pre-existing conditions.
If the Iranian government won't end its nuclear program, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will push legislation that "would force companies in the energy sector to choose between doing business with Iran, or doing business with the United States," said Rep. Howard Berman, a California Democrat.
Do you remember the story of how Nero continued to fiddle while Rome burned?
As President Obama is asking members of Congress to take one of the most politically difficult votes of their careers, he is pressing them to give up one of their most valued perks of office: boosting Medicare payments to benefit hometown providers.
The powerful chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial
Services Committee on Wednesday introduced legislation to create a new
consumer financial protection agency that would strip some powers away
from current regulators.
...Glenn Jacobs read the Cap and Trade bill. He and Gardner Goldsmith sat down to wade through the sewage.
House Resolutions are referred to as H.R., NOT HB. There are S.B.s for Senate Bills but no HB. H.R.1388 was the Serve America Act and it was made into law on 04/21/09. Even the Federal Register link included in the article makes no
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Sen. Daniel K. Inouye's staff contacted federal regulators last fall to ask about the bailout application of an ailing Hawaii bank that he had helped to establish and where he has invested the bulk of his personal wealth. The bank, Central Pacific Financial, was an unlikely candidate for a program designed by the Treasury Department to bolster healthy banks. The firm's losses were depleting its capital reserves. Its primary regulator, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., already had decided that it didn't meet the criteria for receiving a favorable recommendation and had forwarded the applica
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Many got sick when the high courts in Lewis case [Read it] destroyed the myth: Fed is not a private scheme of hijackers more terrifying than the 911 infamy the Left pictured it to be!
It comes down to this: Each "representative" that voted to pass Cap and Trade has violated their Congressional Oath of Office to "well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office." How on earth can you--in good faith--fulfill the duties of the office by voting to pass 1500 pages of legislation YOU HAVEN'T READ?! ...Video:.
Ron Paul's popular Audit the Fed bill may already be exhibiting the unintended consequence of strengthening the Federal Reserve.
Among the top 20 recipients of PAC funds from green groups were Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.), who pulled in $9,519 in the 2008 election cycle, and Rep. Vernon Buchanan (R-Fla.) with $14,200. They did not join the other eight this time around, but there will be more
Peddling a dangerous lie that induces emotional freaks to kill or create havoc and destroy America is actually a terror attack worse than 911.
Like for instance, we don’t need court reporters. I mean, we can do this digitally. Why are we still holding on to court reporters? Just because the unions want to hold on and keep their jobs. — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
[well, duh!] Kouri with the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others are common to psychopathic serial killers.
But they are also common to American politicians.
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Error-prone Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s innocence [oops! I bungled … “innocence” is the misspelled word of ignorance – or is it spelled innuendo?] -- on the latest CIA waterboarding report, jet log and “Signing Statement” are wet and damp.
The decision by Justice McNamara of State Supreme Court effectively puts the Senate at a 31-to-31 deadlock, but it also leaves Senator Pedro Espada Jr., a Bronx Democrat who crossed party lines last week, as the president of the Senate.
The cars and planes are not directly linked to the U.S. war effort. But they are typical of Congress' penchant for loading bills with unrelated spending in hopes the funds will sail through on the strength of the main legislation.
They make the laws, but do they have to follow them? In the case of photo enforcement while they are in session, the answer is no!
Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., steered millions of dollars in defense work to a campaign donor and the Pentagon went along with it, even though two convicted drug dealers had been deeply involved with the company. Records filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh starting in 2005 raise questions about whether the government ever checked into the background of William Kuchera of Windber, Pa., a Murtha constituent who has been doing government work for over 20 years.....
The misnamed State Secret Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 984) is dangerous, in terms of both its effect on national security and the violence it would do to the constitutional separation of powers. Congress should be aware of the following key points:....
When the state gets involved in the market, politics gets involved in the market. And when politics gets involved in the market, it should be no surprise that that politics proceeds to impart its distinctive taint to “market decisions.”
