Actually, it’s not personal. Your representatives didn’t know what you thought of these bills when they passed them into law. It’s up to you to tell them.
The bills that received a cost estimate – about half of them – add up to just shy of $240 in spending per U.S. family. Lots of [...]
The “swarm” of new laws featured earlier this week has grown. Below are the latest new laws to go on the books, hurried through Congress at the end of the regular session.
Most of them have received a cost estimate, and they add up to about $40 in spending per U.S. family. They cover [...]
Our “Silly Season” series of posts featured the laws racing across the House floor in the waning days of Congress’ regular session. Now it’s time to see what bills were passed into law.
Mind you, not all of them are silly. But there’s no reason why Congress couldn’t do its work in [...]
Among the bills passed in the House during the recent Silly Season was H.R. 6867, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008. (Not all bills passed in Silly Season are silly.)
The bill would provide seven additional weeks of unemployment checks to those who have exhausted their benefits. People in states where the unemployment rate is [...]
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 [...]