What are some Bills trying to be passed?
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My favorite name I saw on the list was the cheeseburger bill.\nhttp://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:H.R.554:
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Nothing. Call your State Legislature and ask him/her to introduce the bill. Ask others to do the same.\nNow if your thinking "grass roots referendum" to get the issue on the State vote, that's different.\nYour State may be different then mine.
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Federal, State and Local Legislators.
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Gonna need more information - u looking for agenda items, programme issues, construction issues.\n\nDrop me a note and I will see what I can do.
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The bill has been brought before the parliament but they havn't decided yet.\n\nMost supporters of the vice prez oppose it but the prez supporters support it. Most of the state governors support it too.
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There are lots of SB770s and SB551s in the world, seeing as every state almost has a Senate and there is the US Senate, plus many around the world, and each of them starts over at one for each session, so we need a lot more information.
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We can make more of an impact by speaking our minds to our lawmakers!\n\n\nhttp://judiciary.senate.gov/press.cfm
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no dates yet, the bill hasn't passed though the House yet, and until it does it isn't Law./
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Here's a list:\nhttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2005-635&sort=vote
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In general, the best effort to be made to stop a bill is to write your representative / Senator and tell him/her that you are against the proposition. If he/she notices that a large majority of his/her constituents is against it, then he/she will probably vote against it. This is of course in a perfect world.\nIn the real world, it is very difficult to really imagine what is happening on the hill. More often than not, a representative will vote on a particular bill against his/her beliefs or desires of the constituents in order to gain a vote from another rep. on another bill. \nFor instance: \nYou (and your constituents) want a law saying all cars must be red. I want them all to be blue. \nYou want free ice cream on Thursdays. I want free soda pop on Thursdays.\nSo we make a deal, you vote for blue cars and in turn I vote for ice cream.\n\nAs for the particular bill in question, both partisan groups see big (personal) advantages in passing this bill. The Democrats see a LOT of new voters, while the Republicans see LOTS of cheap labor for their pals in Big Industry (who get them voted into office.)\n\nSo I think we Americans are going to see the probably biggest sell-out of our society in a long time. I have already stated my opinion on this immigration issue in an earlier post, so I wont go into it again here, except to say this: The immigrants showed ZERO respect for our laws by their actions, why reward them with citizenship?
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I personally would like to see a balanced budget amendment. I would also like to see an amendment that put more stringent parameters on Congress's role. Check out this site, there is a good discussion on possible new amendments.
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It isn't in place yet.  The Senate passed one version, the House passed a different one.  The Senate will give theirs to the House to see if they can negotiate one bill for all of Congress to vote on.  If they can't, it will not go further.  Meanwhile other people are sponsoring new legislation to see if that is better or more popular.
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it was January 23rd (but i didn't vote for him). he was elected into a minority government. which means that he has to get votes from other party's to get bills past. Its a delicate balancing act. But i do not believe he will last long.
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Can you post a copy of both bills so I can put them in Access and run a compare query on them?
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Since you weren't specific as to which house of congress you are interested in, I found a number of bills that are being considered by the Senate.\n\nSome of the Bills being considered include:\n\nAbortion - preventing minors for crossing statelines to circumvent parental notification; \n\nImmigration Reform / Border Security;\n\nThe "Cheeseburger Bill", - Obesity lawsuits, curb (Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act; "cheeseburger bill").\n\nClick on any of the links below for more information. The last link links directly the Senate pending bills where I obtained the above bills.
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I wasn't aware that they were available from old bills, but I don't know anything about them. You might want to ask in the newsgroups linked below.
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They're still trying to bring it up for a vote. The bill will be on the ballot in November. I'd suggest voting Democrat tomorrow.