Silly Season, Part IV
Monday was another day with a cavalcade of bills streaming through the House of Representatives.
While you were watching the bailout (just at the moment I’m posting this, the House is debating the rule that would govern its debate on the Senate-passed bailout bill), or perhaps noting the beginning of the new fiscal year without a budget for most federal agencies, Congress was passing bills on half the things under the sun.
[Previous posts in this series: Silly Season on Capitol Hill; Silly Season, Part Deux; and Silly Season, Part C.]
Here are some of the bills that saw action on the House floor Monday:
S. 2304
The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2007
Costs: $4.58 per family
S. 3598
The Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act of 2008
S. 3536
The Air Carriage of International Mail Act
H.R. 6600
The Medicare Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2008
H.R. 7222
To extend the Andean Trade Preference Act, and for other purposes
H.R. 7198
The Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal Act of 2008
H.R. 6098
The Personnel Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and Enhancement of Homeland Security Act
Costs: $0.00 per family
S. 1276
The Methamphetamine Production Prevention Act of 2007
Costs: $0.00 per family
S. 1492
The Broadband Data Improvement Act
Costs: $1.95 per family
S. 2382
The FEMA Accountability Act of 2007
Costs: $0.00
H.R. 5350
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to sell or exchange certain National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration property located in Norfolk, Virginia, and for other purposes
Costs: $0.00 per family
S. 1582
The Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007
Costs: $7.69 per family
H.R. 5618
The National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2008
Costs $2.84 per family
S. 1193
The Albuquerque Indian School Act
Costs: $0.00 per family
H.R. 2963
The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 2007
S. 3128
The White Mountain Apache Tribe Rural Water System Loan Authorization Act
H.R. 7175
The Small Business Financing Improvements Act of 2008
S. 906
The Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007
Costs: $0.04 per family