Silent Votes...
Jul. 23rd, 2004 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearThe House Resources Committee voted yesterday to make broad revisions to the Endangered Species Act by making it more difficult to list species as endangered and declare their habitat off-limits. -- The Post
just one of several "votes" taking place out there in congressland that people are mostly not noticing because everybody's attention (including the media) is all on the 9/11 commission.
hey, everybody, wake up! Congress is voting like shit out there...
I'm thinking its "throw the bums out" time again...
oh, and "President Bush yesterday scuttled a Republican agreement to extend three expiring middle-class tax cuts for two years, deciding instead to push for a more costly five-year extension when Congress returns in September." -- source
In other words, don't accept any chance that the tax cuts could stop before the end of Bush's potential second term and/or Kerry's potential first term. If he gets his way, Kerry will be paralized in his budget and/or Bush will continue to look damn good to high-income brackets leading to major support for the next republican candidate.
oh, and the "Flag Burning" issue is being discussed again, with a largely party-line vote in committee passing it to the senate floor.
the senate's expected rejection of the marriage amendment seems to be the only good vote that'll happened all week...
just one of several "votes" taking place out there in congressland that people are mostly not noticing because everybody's attention (including the media) is all on the 9/11 commission.
hey, everybody, wake up! Congress is voting like shit out there...
I'm thinking its "throw the bums out" time again...
oh, and "President Bush yesterday scuttled a Republican agreement to extend three expiring middle-class tax cuts for two years, deciding instead to push for a more costly five-year extension when Congress returns in September." -- source
In other words, don't accept any chance that the tax cuts could stop before the end of Bush's potential second term and/or Kerry's potential first term. If he gets his way, Kerry will be paralized in his budget and/or Bush will continue to look damn good to high-income brackets leading to major support for the next republican candidate.
oh, and the "Flag Burning" issue is being discussed again, with a largely party-line vote in committee passing it to the senate floor.
the senate's expected rejection of the marriage amendment seems to be the only good vote that'll happened all week...
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Date: 2004-07-23 07:51 pm (UTC)Unable to find anything on http://thomas.loc.gov/ dealing with "flag burning".
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Date: 2004-07-23 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-23 08:24 pm (UTC)I can't acess the source, as I'm not signing up for the Posts thing.
Oh, and it's been "Throw the bums out" time for quite a long while...
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Date: 2004-07-23 09:10 pm (UTC)