legislation

The bills that Congress reject are as informative as the ones it does. Reviews of all the legislation that meet their fate in government halls.

The White House plan to combat Asian American Pacific Islander hate & a Chelsea, ME Representative’s hateful email
The current situation of Asian American racial hate crimes on the rise across the nation has created a toxic environment for numerous Asian Americans.
By Stephen Dalton5 years ago in The Swamp
President Biden’s $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure.
President Joe Biden announced his infrastructure package on Wednesday, the 31st March 2021 and it focuses on infrastructure spending with a price tag of $2 trillion. In the announcement, Biden emphasized the need for building not only the roads and bridges but also the middle class as a whole.
By DEEPAK SETHI5 years ago in The Swamp
Fresh Water: A Basic Right
Water! The most precious of all things Through-out history wars have been fought over the right to claim water rights. Like a nations finances, governments ability to control the availability of water is the other source in determining the destiny of populations. Transparency and effective governance of water is the prerequisite for all human and animal development. It also ensures environmental stability. Yet we especially here in the United States take the supply of readily available access of water for granted. We waste it, we squander it, we horde it, we pollute it, and generally abuse the supply we have.
By Dr. Williams5 years ago in The Swamp
The Truth about Drugs
If we are ever going to win “The War on Drugs” we have got to start telling the truth about ourselves. Our society would be much better off if we were to decriminalize all substances. That’s right, it’s time to wave the proverbial white flag; to end the war on drugs we must make them—all of them—legal. The truth is simple: WE DO DRUGS—a lot of them. We are the major market for every legal and illegal substance known to man (and more are being created daily to satisfy our ever-increasing appetites for mind-altering substances). The fact that many drugs are illegal has not stopped us from doing them, indeed, it’s a subtle encouragement. Half of the allure of illegal drugs is the very fact that they are illegal. They help us feel special and encourage the adolescent delusion that laws and laws-of-nature don’t apply to us. We feel like rules that limit freedom are for someone else to follow—it’s as American as apple pie (there’s my favorite cliche, again) which, by the way, is loaded with the biggest killer of all legal drugs: sugar. We are the great consumer-nation of all illegal drugs and we are the paying customers that enrich the worst criminals in our hemisphere. The drug cartels are not the problem; we are. By making all drugs legal, we would instantly put all these horrible criminals out of business. We would also protect ourselves from all the dangerous substances used to “cut” illegal drugs to expand their illegal profitability. People don’t OD on their drug of choice, they kill themselves with the cheap poisons their drugs are cut with. If all drugs were legal and regulated, they would be cheaper and safer, that is sure.
By Mike Ball5 years ago in The Swamp
The Sovereignty Law: An Idea To Exempt Competent People From The Constraints of The Law
Quick Fact -The law slows down a percentage of us. Introducing a solid way to make certain individuals exempt from the law helps us be productive, take the correct steps, not be afraid of censorship, and generally do our thing without inhibition!
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in The Swamp
Senate Passes COVID Relief
And it is done. After a a marathon session of amendments that took roughly 14 hours, the Senate finally passed HR 1319, the COVID relief bill on an entirely party line vote of 50 to 49. (Roll Call 110), Due to changes the Senate made, the bill heads back to the House of Representatives for reconciliation.
By John Heckenlively5 years ago in The Swamp
Senate Pulls All-Nighter
Thanks to the delaying tactics of Senator Ron Johnson, Senate clerks were forced to read all 628 pages of the COVID relief bill (HR 1319) Thursday afternoon and evening. They finished up a little after 2 a.m. Friday morning.
By John Heckenlively5 years ago in The Swamp
Rishi Sunak Delivers UK Budget
UK Chancellor Of The Exchequer Rishi Sunak has delivered the 2021 budget which laid out all the measures that would be put in place to try and help the country recover financially from the Covid 19 pandemic. During a time when we are all being asked to stay at home as much as possible and work from home to avoid contracting and passing on the virus, extra measures have had to be put in place in order to ensure that the general public will be able to survive and manage their everyday lives. This includes different types and levels of funding to ensure people can work from home and be able to afford and receive the every day services they need to manage their lives.
By Ashish Prabhu5 years ago in The Swamp
Bryan Watch: Feb 2021
Week 1 (Feb 1-5) The biggest thing the House dealt with the first week was the budget. Not surprisingly, Republicans unanimously rejected it, including Steil. They opposed even discussing it, as usual. (H Res 101, RC 26 and 27, February 5) The bill paves the way for Congress to pass President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package.
By John Heckenlively5 years ago in The Swamp
How we can benefit from the Right to Information Act 2005
How we can benefit from the Right to Information Act 2005? Introduction/ Preface – Right to Information Act 2005 The Right to Information Act 2005, popularly known as RTI Act has ensured every citizen of India a basic right to seek information from the Government authorities to fight against corruption and also bring forth more transparency to the functionalities of the Central Govt. or different State Governments.
By Arthik Disha5 years ago in The Swamp
It's No Longer a Crime to Do Drugs in Oregon
On February 1st, Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize so-called “hard drugs”. Thanks to voter-approved ballot measure 110, passed in November 2020, police can no longer arrest individuals with a minor amount of drugs in their possession. Drugs such as methamphetamine (meth), heroin, LSD, cocaine, and oxycodone (oxy) are included in the measure.
By Rose Bak 5 years ago in The Swamp
Bryan Watch - Jan 2021
While there were several monumental votes this month, most notably the second impeachment of Donald Trump, things were relatively slow this first month of 2021. There were only 18 votes in the house, and about half of them were procedural.
By John Heckenlively5 years ago in The Swamp