Among the more silly bills introduced in Congress yesterday was H. Con. Res. 124, a resolution declaring outrage that President Barack Obama has failed to get on board with those who believe that government-funded travel to outer space destinations is part of a preordained destiny that must not be resisted.
Late last year, U.S. Representative Rob Bishop voted in favor of H.R. 2273, a law that prevents regulations to protect American communities from toxic pollutants contained in coal ash from being implemented. Three days from now, the coal industry is giving Rob Bishop his reward.
A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.
The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.
H. Res. 211, if passed, would give congressional endorsement to the designation of the first weekend in May as a national celebration of an ancient Judaic equivalent of Islam’s sharia. That old religious law includes the command to refrain from creating most kinds of artwork.
Four members of the U.S. House of Representatives support spending on the colonization of the moon, but want to eliminate Medicare.
Lead shot and lead sinkers that get into the ecosystem are consumed by animals that are then consumed by hunters, who then suffer the long list of maladies you see above. H.R. 1445 isn’t pro-hunter legislation. It’s putting hunters in danger. There are good, safer alternatives to lead.
Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.
An informally assembled anti-wolf caucus in Congress is working to allow gray wolves in the United States to be hunted to the point of extinction.
Under Bishop’s proposed amendment, a state-level repeal would take place whenever two-thirds of states passed legislation expressing the desire to repeal any federal legislation or regulation.
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