Bills like S. 926 enable senators to claim that they are taking action to protect America’s shores from another disaster like the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, without having to accomplish anything. They’re little pieces of show legislation that no one intends to follow through with to completion.
The federal government has spent approximately one and a half billion dollars funding abstinence-only sex education programs without seeing any positive results. At a time when programs that have been proven effective, such as Head Start and the WIC nutritional program, are being cut, the failed abstinence-only experiment should not be spared.
Eighteen Democrats and one independent from the United States have signed a letter urging the President and the Attorney General to return to a commitment to equality in the United States. The letter asks Attorney General Eric Holder to allow the decision that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is unconstitutional to stand.
There were just two young people who wanted to kiss. Yet, Senator Lautenberg wouldn’t let up. He declared that he was “outraged”, and demanded that video of the incident be released.
The best way to prevent oil spills is to stop the expansion of offshore drilling, reducing the number of petroleum-laden tankers and offshore platforms littering our nation’s coastlines. However, given the offshore drilling that already exists, the Oil Spill Prevention Act is an important bill that every senator should be able to support.
Right now, you need to begin to reduce your consumption of electricity. You need to develop a plan for driving your car less. Waiting for Congress to start research into this matter will ensure that the acidification crisis will get much worse before we even begin to try to control it.
Obama promised last Friday that he would be in the Senate. “I will work in the Senate,” he said, to remove retroactive immunity from the legislation. Today, Barack Obama wasn’t there.
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