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Posts Tagged 'amendment'

Four Tenths of House GOP Won’t Support Capitalism Defense Amendment

Posted on August 9 2010 by Congress Watcher

Was capitalism truly such a fragile thing that it needed a new government regulation to ensure its survival?

Should Big Oil Corporations Pay Their Income Taxes? 61 Senators Vote No.

Posted on June 21 2010 by Congressional Aid

On June 9, 2010, Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont posted the corporate income tax report of Exxon Mobil in the Congressional Record and took to the floor of the Senate to note: Last year, ExxonMobil, the most profitable corporation in the history of the world, reported to the SEC that not only did it avoid [...]

Jo Bonner Takes A Nap

Posted on January 13 2010 by Congressional Aid

It’s been seven years since Rep. Jo Bonner first came to Congress, and it’s been a year since he took his seat as a member of the 111th Congress. Representative Bonner has had a lot of time to warm up. To date in the 111th Congress, Jo Bonner has not introduced one bill, not one [...]

Cardin Gets it Right: Separate Abortion Riders Don’t Work

Posted on December 8 2009 by Congressional Aid

Most of the Senate debate on the afternoon of December 8 leading up to the rejection of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment was pretty predictable. The amendment itself, after all, was a near cookie-cutter copy of the Stupak Amendment that was passed earlier this month in the House of Representatives. Both amendments prohibit private health insurance plans [...]

Amendments To Abolish Electoral College Don’t Go Far

Posted on November 27 2009 by Congress Watcher

Gene Green, Democrat from Texas, proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College on January 7th, but it hasn’t advanced through the legislative process at all since February.

Term Limits Constitutional Amendment Proposed

Posted on November 11 2009 by Congress Watcher

Term limits could exacerbate problems of corruption, by accelerating the revolving door between corporate lobbying and Congress.

Al Franken Votes to Let Big Brother Spy on Innocent Americans

Posted on October 8 2009 by Congressional Aid

In the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Richard Durbin just offered an amendment to S. 1692, a bill reauthorizing Patriot Act surveillance powers. It would have only required that when national security letters (NSLs) are issued without constitutional warrants, they have to be limited to surveillance of those who are suspected terrorists, suspected spies, or people [...]

Al Franken: This Senator is Experiencing Constitutional Difficulties. Please Stand By.

Posted on October 6 2009 by Congressional Aid

This morning, a visitor to the website franken.senate.gov will encounter a canned message: “Sorry, the web page you have requested is experiencing technical difficulties.” Senator Al Franken is upgrading his web page from a canned, stand-in version (the one all new senators get) to a new, fully-formed and customized web page. As he warms to [...]

Listen In: Substitute for S. 1692 Was NOT Adopted Unanimously

Posted on October 2 2009 by Congressional Aid

At That’s My Congress, we would like to clarify a matter which may appear unimportant out of context. In context, however, the clarification demonstrates a small but consistent effort by two senators to reform surveillance laws in the direction of greater constitutional protection. In an otherwise excellent legislative analysis by Kevin Bankston of the Electronic [...]

Jeff Sessions Moves to Extend National Security Letter Powers Indefinitely

Posted on October 1 2009 by Congressional Aid

Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama today declared in the Senate Judiciary Committee, “it would be a mistake for us to sunset the national security letter provisions.” Under national security letter authority, a provision of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, government agents are able to obtain personal information on Americans’ activities without the warrant [...]

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