S. 1244 would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect breastfeeding by new mothers, to provide for a performance standard for breast pumps, and to provide tax incentives to encourage breastfeeding.
That’s right:
Breastfeeding as a civil right.
A “performance standard” for breast pumps.
Tax incentives to encourage breastfeeding.
There really is nothing that Congress won’t make the [...]
I believe that children are our future. But I don’t know if that means the White House needs to look after them. There certainly are people who do.
A new bill, H.R. 2653, would create a White House Office of National Youth Policy to ensure the coordination and effectiveness of services to youth.
The good folks at [...]
Back when this blog was just in diapers, we got a lot of attention for calling out a proposal for a new federal law on bedbugs. “No issue is too small for your Congress to handle,” I wrote. The public reacted.
Well, the bill didn’t pass, but the feds are on the bedbug case all the [...]
Update: A House bill has now been introduced too.
One of my earliest posts on this blog was called “Here’s a Law We Don’t Need,” and it mocked a bill to ban novelty lighters. A follow-up was called “Senate Joins Anti-Novelty Lighter Crusade.”
Well? Congress is baaack! And a new bill to control the [...]
The 111th Congress didn’t waste any time. Over 600 bills were introduced last week, its first week of action.
The full tally of measures introduced is actually 740, but that includes non-substantive bills, housekeeping measures, and such. (We only display the substantive stuff – and we exclude bills to rename post offices too. [...]
Last week, during Congress’ lame duck session to consider economic stimulus legislation, a couple dozen more bills were introduced, bringing the total number of bills in the current Congress above 11,000. And it’s not over: Congress will probably come back the week of December 8th to do a little more legislating.
Statistics don’t often mean [...]
With the drama of the election and the recent huge bailout and spending bills flying through Congress, it’s easy to forget the kajillions of little things the federal government is churning out all the time.
So here’s one that caught my eye – the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) [...]
Word on the street is that Congress will come back in on November 17th to do some post-election business. The respite gives us time to look at some of the bills hustled across the House floor while we were concentrating on the big stuff.
Though there might be more silliness when Congress comes back, this [...]
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 [...]
Silly season on Capitol Hill. It’s that special time of year when Congress nears the end of its scheduled session and decides to do all its work at once. Dozens of bills fly across the House floor with little debate.
They’re not all bad bills, but nothing prevented Congress from addressing them [...]