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Home Front: Politix
Congress Doing What It Was Elected To Do: Nothing
2007-05-12
It's more than four months into the new Democratic Congress--not a bad time to see how they're doing. So far there have been 25 bills signed into law. Here's the list:

  • A bill to redesignate the White Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of Vermont as the "Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area."

  • To revise the composition of the House of Representatives Page Board to equalize the number of members representing the majority and minority parties and to include a member representing the parents of pages and a member representing former pages, and for other purposes.

  • To provide a new effective date for the applicability of certain provisions of law to Public Law 105-331.

  • An act to provide for an additional temporary extension of programs under the Small Business Act and the Small business Investment Act of 1958 through July 31, 2007, and for other purposes.

  • Making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2007, and for other purposes.

  • To amend the Antitrust Modernization Commission Act of 2002, to extend the term of the Antitrust Modernization Commission and to make a technical correction.

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1300 North Frontage Road West in Vail, Colorado, as the "Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Post Office Building".

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 152 North 5th Street in Laramie, Wyoming, as the "Gale W. McGee Post Office".

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Main Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the "Scipio A. Jones Post Office Building".

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 16150 Aviation Loop Drive in Brooksville, Florida, as the "Sergeant Lea Robert Mills Brooksville Aviation Branch Post Office".

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 3903 South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, as the "Sergeant Henry Ybarra III Post Office Building".

  • To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2633 11th Street in Rock Island, Illinois, as the "Lane Evans Post Office Building".

  • To designate the United States courthouse located at 555 Independence Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the "Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse".

  • To designate the United States courthouse at South Federal Place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the "Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse".

  • To designate the Federal building located at 400 Maryland Avenue Southwest in the District of Columbia as the 'Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building'.

  • To provide for the construction, operation, and maintenance of an arterial road in St. Louis County, Missouri.

  • A bill to endorse further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and to facilitate the timely admission of new members to NATO, and for other purposes.

  • To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide waivers relating to grants for preventive health measures with respect to breast and cervical cancers.

  • A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to reinstate certain provisions relating to the nutrition services incentive program.

  • To redesignate the Federal building located at 167 North Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee, as the "Clifford Davis and Odell Horton Federal Building".

  • To amend the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 to reauthorize the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

  • To amend title 18, United States Code, to strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting, and for other purposes.

  • To amend the Public Health Service Act to add requirements regarding trauma care, and for other purposes.

  • To amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to extend the authority to withhold from public availability a financial disclosure report filed by an individual who is a judicial officer or judicial employee, to the extent necessary to protect the safety of that individual or a family member of that individual, and for other purposes.

  • A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the "Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse".
  • Posted by:Anonymoose

    #8  I assume the statement "and for other purposes" means the bill is loaded with earmarks and pork.

    Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-05-12 17:51  

    #7  A bill to endorse further enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and to facilitate the timely admission of new members to NATO, and for other purposes.

    Considering Sweden's and Finland's recent interest, and the hammer and sickle flying over the Duma again, this one suggests that someone is actually paying attention.
    Posted by: exJAG   2007-05-12 12:22  

    #6  # To revise the composition of the House of Representatives Page Board to equalize the number of members representing the majority and minority parties and to include a member representing the parents of pages and a member representing former pages, and for other purposes.

    If there's any mandate the Democratniks can claim, that's the one. Prior to the '06 elections I'd never heard of Mark Foley. You'd think he was Speaker of the House given the amount of coverage of his idiocy during the midterm campaign, though.
    Posted by: eLarson   2007-05-12 12:21  

    #5  There's nothing named after Robert C. Byrd? I'm shocked!
    Posted by: Raj   2007-05-12 11:30  

    #4  Ironically, I expected nothing less. The public tends to vacillate between wanting something done and wanting peace and quiet from government. That is pretty much what the election said: the vote was only for logjam, no mandate to anyone.

    Democrats are tired of the WoT that they only wanted to last a month or two, if at all.

    Republicans are tired of the Republican spending spree, and just wanted Congress to STOP passing laws and throwing money around like confetti.

    So for two years we get a "time out". Eventually I expect Bush to get most of the money the military needs, and some of the more "rah rah" but ineffective Patriot Act stuff will be allowed to expire.

    The loser in the next election will be the candidate who promises the most change. Unless that change is government doing less.

    Optimally, Al Gore will run as a Green candidate and split the Democrats.
    Posted by: Anonymoose   2007-05-12 11:08  

    #3  To designate the United States courthouse located at 555 Independence Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as the "Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courthouse".

    that had to hurt...
    Posted by: Frank G   2007-05-12 11:03  

    #2  If you showed me this list and asked how many working days it represented, I'd have guessed about 1 week. They're so busy pissing and crying that they can't get anything done. Most of what they did get done is redesignating buildings, I'd think that would take about an hour, max.
    Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-05-12 10:22  

    #1  If they did nothing that would be fine but the dhemmi donks are being obstructionists and aiding and abetting terrorists. They are not supporting our troops. They are like a bunch of friggin kids--they want to whine about everything and take responsibility for nothing.
    Posted by: JohnQC   2007-05-12 10:07  

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