>...Senate leaders are working overtime on this contentious issue to try to cobble together a piece of legislation that will muster the votes.....>>
Source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/hold_your_nose_i_smell_capandt_1.html
A CA measure to create an online poker monopoly has failed.
After watching various interests fight over how to extract the most money from poker players - including a provision to criminalize play on unlicensed sites - the Poker Players Alliance came out in opposition to the bill. Poker players support fair legislation, not punitive taxation.
Source:
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yybx4t7vqrpu75&xid=yybe3z50fbto8y&done=.yybx4t7vqseu75
President Obama's Justice Department has decided to sue the State of Arizona over its new law targeting illegal aliens, when a majority of the public favors the legislation, leaving many to wonder if the increasingly detached White House has gone too far.
The demise of Democrats' jobs-agenda legislation means unemployment benefits will phase out for more than 200,000 people a week.
Governors who had counted on fresh federal aid will now have to consider more budget cuts, tax increases and layoffs of state workers. The House may try to revive the long-stalled jobless aid bill next week as a standalo
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/25/house-standalone-jobs-bill_n_626309.html
Moody's Investors Service said Tuesday that if financial overhaul legislation passes, it may cut debt ratings on a number of big U.S. banks because the reform would make it less likely that the government would step in to rescue troubled firms. "The Dodd bill contains provisions that, if passed into law, could weaken our assumptions regarding the
Source:
http://moneynews.com/Headline/US-Bank-Regulation-Moodys/2010/04/27/id/357076
By Ross Colvin and Jeff Mason||WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House will unveil its latest healthcare reform proposals on Monday ahead of a bipartisan summit that President Barack Obama hopes will advance the stalled legislation, a senior...
Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1913022820100220?rpc=64
Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday to cut off funding for alleged Sept. 11 conspirators to face prosecution in federal courts, saying they should be tried by military commissions instead.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703762504575037550051072986.html
Four U.S.
Senators are pursuing legislation they believe would fix the "mistake" President Obama made with the man who allegedly failed to blow up a Christmas Day flight into Detroit. That "mistake" was treating him like a serious criminal, tossing him in jail and planning a trial.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/aclu-oppose-making-constitution-optional/
To close out 2009, I decided to do something I bet no member of Congress has done -- actually read from cover to cover one of the pieces of sweeping legislation bouncing around Capitol Hill.
Source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a48c8UpUMxKQ
This issue is not one of 'majority' decision and should not lie in the hands of the voters.
This is an example of the explicit reasoning considered when drafting state and federal constitutions, that the "inalienable" rights of the few will not be trampled upon by the many.
Link source:
http://www.theinformationparadox.com/2008/10/californias-prop-8-is-hateful-unethical.html
AP - After consulting with Barack Obama, Democratic leaders are likely to call Congress back to work after the election in hopes of passing legislation that would include extended jobless benefits, money for food stamps and possibly a tax rebate, officials said Saturday.
Check it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_go_co/second_stimulus
