Daily Archives: 12 July 2013

Because Some Things Are More Important Than Others

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…and just can’t wait.

Congressmen Donna Edwards (D, MD) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D, TX) propose in the “Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act” that a national historical park on the moon be created to ensure the American landing sites are preserved for future generations.

Incredibly, the bill

would allow the federal government to accept donations to help preserve the landing sites and would create visitor services and administrative offices “within reasonable proximity to the Historical Park.”

Reasonable proximity.  Yeah.

Because visitors—tourists—are beating down the doors to get there, this has to be done right away.

A Measure of Responsibility

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The House plans to take steps to curb the power of federal agencies and impose more checks on them in response to recent scandals emanating from the Internal Revenue Service.

Here are the bills the House plans to introduce before the August recess next month—and hopefully pass and send up to the Senate for passage in September after the recess.  The several bills would

  • bar [the IRS] from implementing and enforcing Obamacare
  • make it legal for citizens to make recordings of any conversation they have with a federal enforcement official
  • necessitate[] the approval of the leadership of the agency for conferences held by government officials
  • [give] Congress…final approval of any regulations that would seriously impact the economy
  • mandate the creation of a customer service system at agencies
  • let agencies place “senior career officials on investigative leave, with or without pay, when they are under investigation for serious abuses.”

Will the Democrats in the Senate support this, or will they block the bills, favoring, instead, continued (Democrat) Executive Branch abuses?  Will the House actually pass this legislation, or is this just a Republican version of Obamatalk?

We’ll see in a bit.