Liberty Maven

Forty-six new bills were introduced on Wednesday, March 18th.  Here are some of the more obnoxious ones:

• HR1590 – To provide assistance for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland.
• HR1583 – To further competition in the insurance industry.  [Huh?  the only reason there is any lack of competition is due to government regulation and intrusion!]
• HR1582 – The Executive Bonus Repeal Act: To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to strike a provision included in a recent amendment of such Act.  [How many bills of nature do we need?  There is already HR1572 to steal 90% of the bonuses as well as HR1542 which proposes to steal 100%.]
• HR1581 – To optimize the delivery of critical care medicine and expand the critical care workforce.  [Government interference is what has impeded the best emergency care possible.  So now the "benevolent" hand of government is going to come in with more regulation to fix it?]
• HR1580 – To authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award grants for electronic waste reduction research, development, and demonstration projects, and for other purposes.
• HR1603 – To require institutions receiving large amounts of assistance under TARP to restrict compensation increases for officers, directors, and employees to the Federal civil service pay increase.  [Again, such bills would not be necessary if there were no unconstitutional TARP in the first place.]
• HR1600 – To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of autism under TRICARE.
• HR1599 – To require survivor annuity payments made to disabled dependents to be disregarded in eligibility and benefit determinations under the supplemental security income (SSI) and Medicaid Programs.
• HR263 – Expressing support for designation of the month of September as “National Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month”.  [Hahaha, wouldn't this conflict with HR255 which would be “National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month”?]
• HR262 – Expressing the strong concern of the House of Representatives about the actions of the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan, to restrict girls’ access to education.  [Do they think that people in Afghanistan care what the U.S. House of Representatives is concerned about?  Or put the other way, how would we like it if the government of another nation were to stick it's nose into our way of life?  Granted, I do not agree with how females are treated in some cultures, but it's not the business of the Federal Government to be concerned with such things.]
• HR258 – Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding drug trafficking in Mexico.
• S-637 – A bill to authorize the construction of the Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System in the State of Montana and a portion of McKenzie County, North Dakota, for other purposes.
• S-636 – A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to conform the definition of renewable biomass to the definition given the term in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.
• S-635 – A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
• S-634 (also HR1585) – A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve standards for physical education.
• S-633 – A bill to establish a program for tribal colleges and universities within the Department of Health and Human Services and to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to authorize the provision of grants and cooperative agreements to tribal colleges and universities, and for other purposes.

• S-631 – A bill to provide for nationwide expansion of the pilot program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of long-term care facilities or providers.
• S-629 – A bill to facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants, and for other purposes
• S-628 – A bill to provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities.
• S-627 – A bill to authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to support early college high schools and other dual enrollment programs.
• HR259 – Expressing the gratitude and appreciation of the House of Representatives for the acts of heroism and military achievement by the members of the United States Armed Forces who participated in the June 6, 1944, amphibious landing at Normandy, France, and commending them for leadership and valor in an operation that helped bring an end to World War II.
• HR1598 – The AIG Key Executives Bonus Accountability and Capture (TAKE BACK) Act: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a higher rate of tax on bonuses paid by businesses receiving TARP funds.  [So by my count that's four separate bills for basically the same purpose.  They they communicate with each other over there?]
• HR1595 – To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3245 Latta Road in Rochester, New York, as the “Brian K. Schramm Post Office Building”.
• HR1594 – Income Equity Act of 2009: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the deductibility of excessive rates of executive compensation.  [Just by the title you can tell this bill is evil.  Rep. Barbara Lee, you are a fascist.]
• HR1593 – To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
• HR1589 – To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act to authorize the use of grant funds for gang prevention, and for other purposes.
• HR1584 – To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to extend the authorized time period for rebuilding of certain overfished fisheries, and for other purposes.
• HR1578 – To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to support early college high schools and other dual enrollment programs.
• HR1577 – To require the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue every legal means to stay or recoup certain incentive bonus payments and retention payments made by American International Group, Inc. to its executives and employees, and to require the Secretary’s approval of such payments by any financial institution who receives.
• HR260 – Supporting efforts to reduce infant mortality in the United States

Please take a couple of minutes out of your day to contact your representatives via telephone simply to tell them that you support or oppose a particular bill.  It’ll most likely take you less than two minutes, and it’s so very important that we stand up to our increasingly tyrannical government.

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