Liberty Maven

Continuing our series on taking a look at the many bills that are introduced into Congress each day, yesterday was relatively light compared to previous days, with thirty-two new bills introduced.  The following are some that were obviously unconstitutional, or just plain asinine:

• SR81 – A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of World Water Day.
• HCR77 (also SCR12) – Recognizing and honoring the signing by President Abraham Lincoln of the legislation authorizing the establishment of collegiate programs at Gallaudet University.  [What?  A Congress in 2009 is giddy over some legislation from the mid 1800's?]
• HR274 – Expressing support for designation of March as National Nutrition Month
• HR1676 – To prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes.  [The only reason people are smuggling tobacco products is because of the outrageous taxes on them.  Repeal all taxes and the black market will disappear.  Simple!]
• HR1675 – To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under such section for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.
• HR1674 – To amend the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to allow for the treatment of the nonprofit corporation affiliate of the Bank as a community development financial institution for purposes of the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994.
• HR1673 – To amend the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 with respect to bonus payments.  [Add this one to the seven or eight other bills to do the same thing...]
• HR1672 (also S-668) – To reauthorize the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act to promote the protection of the resources of the Northwest Straits, and for other purposes.
• HR1671 – To understand and comprehensively address the oral health problems associated with methamphetamine use.
• HR1670 – To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide individuals with disabilities and older Americans with equal access to community-based attendant services and supports, and for other purposes.
• HR1669 – To require the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a market for municipal securities, to require cooperation between the Secretary and the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in addressing the municipal securities market situation including through the establishment of municipal securities funding facilities, and for other purposes.  [The concept of municipal securities is unconstitutional, as well as the Federal Reserve Act (which created the Federal Reserve)...]
• HR1666 – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an auction and revenue collection mechanism for a carbon market that ensures price stability with environmental integrity.
• HR1664 – To amend the executive compensation provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards.

• HR1663 – To require State and local law enforcement agencies to determine the immigration status of all individuals arrested by such agencies for a felony, to require such agencies to report to the Secretary of Homeland Security when they have arrested for a felony an alien unlawfully present in the United States, to require mandatory Federal detention of such individuals pending removal in cases where they are not otherwise detained, and for other purposes.
• HR1662 – To amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to require child care providers to provide to parents information regarding whether such providers carry current liability insurance.
• HR1661 – To establish a health registry to ensure that certain individuals who may have been exposed to formaldehyde in a travel trailer have an opportunity to register for such registry and receive medical treatment for such exposure, and for other purposes.
• HR1660 – To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a special rule for the period of admission of H-2A nonimmigrants employed as dairy workers and sheepherders, and for other purposes.  [Sheepherders?  Are you kidding me?]
• S-671 – A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
• S-670 – A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to encourage States to provide pregnant women enrolled in the Medicaid program with access to comprehensive tobacco cessation services.
• S-669 – A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to clarify the conditions under which certain persons may be treated as adjudicated mentally incompetent for certain purposes.
• S-667 – A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from basing minimum prices for Class I milk on the distance or transportation costs from any location that is not within a marketing area, except under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
• S-666 – A bill to prohibit products that contain dry ultra-filtered milk products, milk protein concentrate, or casein from being labeled as domestic natural cheese, and for other purposes.
• S-665 – A bill to allow modified bloc voting by cooperative associations of milk producers in connection with a referendum on Federal milk marketing order reform.
• S-664 – A bill to create a systemic risk monitor for the financial system of the United States, to oversee financial regulatory activities of the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

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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