Yesterday, a couple of resolutions were introduced in the House that I think are noteworthy. Many resolutions have no substance—recognizing “National Brush Your Teeth Day” and such—so we don’t even display them. But the ones that do something we display.
And we are displaying H. Res. 385. It would require congressional committees to publish bills [...]
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Though the text of the legislation was only made available late last night, the House will vote on the conference report for the economic stimulus bill today. That’s the version agreed on by representatives of both the House and Senate.
The bill is available at this link to the House Speaker’s Web site. It’s [...]
On Tuesday this week, the House passed an energy bill that had been introduced late the night before.
It’s bad practice to introduce a bill and take it to the floor without giving members of Congress and the public a chance to read it, but House Republicans were really howling because they had staged a protest [...]