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Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Subject: The President Wants Congress to Read the Bills::::::QUOTE
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:::”The RTBA: Read the Bills Act would make it a requirement that proposed legislation be posted to the internet for 7 days prior to a vote in Congress and that the bills actually be read in Congress before the vote. Sounds like a good idea. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible to have gargantuan complicated bills so Congress would need to change the way they approach the task of legislation.”
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:::-from the blog Connecticut Taxed
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:::IN THIS ISSUE:
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:::* President is frustrated with members of Congress who didn’t read the bill.
:::* Last Week in Congress
:::* New RTBA Coalition Member
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:::THE PRESIDENT WANTS CONGRESS TO READ THE BILLS
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:::President George Bush made two illuminating points in remarks he made two weeks ago. Speaking of Congressional critics of the proposed 790-page Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill (S. 1348), Bush said,
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:::“Oh, I’m sure you’ve heard some of the talk out there about people defining the bill. It’s clear they hadn’t read the bill. They’re speculating about what the bill says, and they’re trying to rile up people’s emotions.”
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:::Later on, he said,
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:::“Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don’t like. If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it, you can use it to frighten people.”
Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Subject: Something you can show your friends::::::Imagine your Congressman before a large audience. Someone stands and asks him, “Do you think you should be able to pass unpopular legislation by combining it with a popular, but completely unrelated bill?”::::::How could he answer yes, in front of all those people?::::::Imagine challengers supporting the “One Subject at a Time Act” as a way of attacking incumbents. How much pressure of this kind would it take before Congress yields and passes the “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA)?::::::OSTA is a tool. OSTA is a weapon. OSTA, like the “Read the Bills Act,” is designed to . . .::::::* Expose Congress:::* Embarass Congress:::* Corner Congress:::* And make Congress pay a price for upsizing the Federal Monopoly::::::If Congress can’t pass bad bills by combining them with good bills, if every measure has to stand and fall on its own merits alone, then Congress will have to work much harder to make the Federal Monopoly grow. And we won’t have to work quite as hard to make it downsize. ::::::OSTA is a way of making Congress defend itself. OSTA turns the tables. Instead of us always defending against what they’re doing, we can play offense for a change, and make Congress defend itself against what we’re doing. ::::::OSTA is the kind of reform most Americans would support. It can help us attract a large army to exert relentless, inescapable, resistance numbing pressure on Congress. And when that happens . . .
Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Subject: One Subject at a Time Act::::::This message has only one subject: the “One Subject at a Time Act.”
Coalition action
Our Position on 9-11 Truth
This was a hot topic (see previous blog entry for details). ::::::An mp3 recording of the show is “attached” to this blog post.
My one hour radio show, the Downsize DC Conference Call, is on this afternoon (Sunday) at 4 PM Eastern (3 PM Central, 2 PM Mountain, and 1 PM Pacific). I think this may be one of the most memorable and important shows I’ll ever do.
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:::For about three years now, with each passing month, the call for DownsizeDC.org to do something on the topic of 9-11 has intensified. People have sent me videos, books, articles, and tons of emails, insisting that there was more there than met the eye.
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:::I have found some of this stuff to be interesting. However, the claims made in these various presentations almost always exceeded the evidence (when it should be the other way around). Some of them were sheer lunacy.
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:::In February a friend of mine lent me a DVD
Good news plus radio show
Please share with concerned friends . . .::::::Subject: Urgent action needed right now to support amendments stripping REAL ID provisions from the immigration bill.::::::The pressure is working. There are now two amendments to the immigration bill that would strip out the REAL ID, electronic background check provisions. We are told these amendments will come to the floor for a vote TODAY!
Today’s Downsizer Dispatch . . .::::::Please share with concerned friends . . .::::::Subject: Mind-boggling Congressional stupidity::::::Picture this: A Mexican migrant worker sits down to read the new 700+ page Senate immigration bill.::::::He doesn’t know a lick of English, but he’s giving it a go anyway. He wants to obey the law, so he has to know the difference between a Z-visa and an a, b, c, d or whatever visa.::::::Can’t imagine it happening? Well how about this . . .