We’ve pointed out new constitutional amendments a couple of times here. Well, a bunch of new ones are on Congress’ docket.
Just for you, we’ve organized them into two piles. From the consistent-with-our-scheme-of-negative-rights pile, there’s:
H. J. Res. 28, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote
H. J. [...]
When Congress passed Public Law 109-148, it sent about $11.5 billion to Gulf Coast states for Hurricane Katrina repairs. When it passed Public Law 109-234, it sent another $5.2 billion. (These numbers are from the lawsuit discussed below.) That’s a total of about $170 per U.S. family or $55 per person.
Total Hurricane [...]
[Update: Check out the new post, "A Bailout Rogues Gallery . . ."]
The Members of Congress who changed their votes to pass financial services bailout legislation, which failed in the House on Monday, surely knew that they were taking a high-profile vote. So let’s give them that high profile!
If you support the bailout, [...]
When Congress gets a head of steam with something like the financial services bailout proposals, its procedures can get really hard to follow. So here’s a quick look at what’s going on.
In the House last Sunday, the bailout language was copied into H.R. 3997, which used to be a bill dealing with tax relief [...]
Sources say the Senate will vote on a version of the financial services bailout legislation tonight (Wednesday).
Yesterday, the House declined to go forward with the $700 billion financial services bailout put together by House and Senate leaders working with the Administration. The vote was 205 in favor and 228 opposed.
This is not the end of the bailout idea. Though it appears to be widely unpopular among the American people, [...]
The text of the bailout legislation is below. This comes from a version posted by the L.A. Times that says “discussion draft,” but it has the same file name as the bill posted on the House Speaker’s Web site, so I believe this is the bill that will be considered in the House tomorrow. [Update: [...]
Here’s the text of a summary on the current bailout language. I don’t think a summary/salespiece like this matters much. I’m working on getting the actual text – there are some slow servers in important places – and we’ll look it over ahead of votes on it in the House and Senate.
SUMMARY OF [...]
One of the pleasures of running a site like WashingtonWatch.com is seeing where the information we produce travels on the Web, and all the communities that use it. A current example is this story on DSNews.com.
What is DSNews.com you ask? Well, it’s the “premier and most up-to-date news source for professionals working in the evolving [...]