During the 110th Congress, Senators Jim DeMint, Mike Enzi and David Vitter teamed up to propose S. 2409, a bill to do… what? Solve the problem of the national debt? Help find a way to cure some new disease? Uh, no. They penned a bill to mandate that the Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center always prominently [...]
The legislation introduced by John Barrasso and David Vitter actually forbids the Secretary of the Interior from taking scientific observations into account, for no other reason than that Barrasso and Vitter regard the consequences of those observations to be inconvenient.
There has been ample warning that American birds are in trouble. So, what legislation has the U.S. Congress drafted to deal with the problem?
The closest are a group of 18 Republican senators who have achieved a net congressional score of negative 60, but still 40 points shy of Vitter’s extreme position.
The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.
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