STATE ISSUESComptroller Strayhorn has put together a party in the 15-1600 block of Congress to make a political announcement this coming Saturday. Expectations are she will announce for governor or if Lt. Governor Dewhurst makes a run for US Senate then she may be seeking that position next year.
A lot of ifs but very interesting.
FEDERAL ISSUESCongressman Ron Paul of Texas introduced an amendment to prevent the U.N. from placing a direct tax on American citizens in order to fund its sovereignty-busting agenda. Today this Amendment was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Blocking the U.N. push for a global tax is a crippling blow to the world-government agenda. Congressman Ron Paul will offer his H.R. 1146 – The American Sovereignty Restoration Act as an amendment to the Science, State, Justice, Commerce Appropriations Act of 2006. H.R. 1146 ends membership of the United States in the United Nations.
Congressman Hoyer has offered HJR 24 along with Congressmen Berman, Sensenbrenner, Sabo and Pallone to Repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. For your information Amendment 22 is listed below.
Amendment XXII - Presidential term limits. Ratified 2/27/1951. History1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Has the Republican Party decided that George W. Bush should be their candidate for a third term as President?
THE HIPAA CORRECTION ISSUE HAS RECEIVED AN UNEXPECTED BOOST IN CONGRESSUS Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX) and Ted Strikland (D-OH) jointly introduced the legislative fix (HR 2793) late last week. This legislation is nothing new when it comes to motorcyclists, in fact the only difference this Congress is the bills main Republican sponsor. Burgess, a medical doctor from Lewisville, Texas, is in his second term and has the exact committee assignments that will be necessary to move this legislation through the process. HR 2793 is nearly identical to the legislation that was good enough to gather 177 co-sponsors last Congress. As of press time only two sponsors and one additional member of congress had signed on in support of the legislation. That needs to change, please call your Member of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor HR 2793. To learn more about the legislation use the Library of Congress website,
http://thomas.loc.gov, and enter the bill number. We need another large showing of support for the legislation this Congress in order to guarantee movement. On the Senate side the companion legislation (S 577) has six co-sponsors. No hearings or markups have taken place on either side of Capitol Hill.
PATRIOT ACTThe US House has voted to remove the ability of officials to confiscate records from libraries and book stores under the US Patriot Act. A very small change but a beginning none the less. President Bush says he will veto any Bill that removes any part of the Patriot Act.
