Men Down Under

Congress, that is, under the radar, wanting to slip 11 million onto the rolls of Democratic voters. No never minding the fact that they all broke the law to get here and are generally poor and therefore likely candidates for the government teat.  Nowadays that's a good thing, I guess.
Gang of eight sneaky bastards they are.

Congress.org (congress.org) presents: MEGAVOTE for March 11, 2013

In this MegaVote for Georgia's 13th Congressional District:

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Committee Funding Resolution  Amendment Vote
• Senate: CIA Director Nomination  Confirmation
• House: Disaster Response and Preparedness Suspension
• House: FY 2013 Continuing Appropriations

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013
• House: Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act
• House: Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013

Recent Senate Votes:


Committee Funding Resolution  Amendment Vote
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=29&chamber=S&congress=1131
Vote Rejected (44-53, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate passed a resolution authorizing funding levels for its standing committees through the remainder of fiscal year 2013. This is normally a non-controversial measure but Kentucky Republican Rand Paul objected to including funding for a body known as the National Security Working Group, essentially a forum for senators to discuss foreign policy and national security. Paul insisted on a vote for his amendment to strip funding from the Working Group. After the amendment was rejected, the resolution was agreed to by voice vote.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted NO
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted NO
53 votes, looks like a party line deal, Reid apparently can gets votes to go his way.

CIA Director Nomination  Confirmation
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=32&chamber=S&congress=1131
Vote Confirmed (63-34, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed President Obama's counterterrorism advisor John Brennan to be the next director of the CIA last week. Brennan looked to be on a glide path to confirmation until Kentucky Republican Rand Paul staged an unexpected "talking" filibuster that stretched over 13 hours. Paul stated that he was holding up Brennans nomination because he had not received adequate assurances from the administration that the president did not have authority to target American citizens on American soil with drone strikes if they were not an "imminent threat." During the course of the filibuster Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. released a brief letter to Paul stating that the president does not have the authority "to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil."  This appeared to satisfy Paul, who yielded the floor after midnight on March 7. Following a successful cloture motion later that afternoon (Roll Call 31), Brennan was confirmed with a solid bipartisan majority. 
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted NO
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted NO
Rand has a pretty damned good point, Holder is a damned obstructionist. But in the end who really gives a shit except the poor bastard who get a drone up his ass. Do you have any doubt that President's have had citizen's killed without due process?  I would be surprised if they any hadn't. They have been doing it, they will continue to do it, it has always been illegal, and everyone turns a blind eye because it is usually pragmatic.
Recent House Votes:


Disaster Response and Preparedness  Suspension
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=56&chamber=H&congress=1131
Vote Passed (370-28, 33 Not Voting)
The House cleared a bill under suspension last week reauthorizing various measures meant to strengthen preparation and response to pandemics and similar biological disasters. The House originally passed the bill in January (Roll Call 24). It was later amended in the Senate, extending the authorization through 2018, and sent back to the House. This latest vote moves the bill to the president's desk. 
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Sounds like regular business, not worth thought.

FY 2013 Continuing Appropriations
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=62&chamber=H&congress=1131
Vote Passed (267-151, 13 Not Voting)
With a March 27 deadline to avert government shutdown looming, the House moved last week to pass a bill making appropriation for the rest of the fiscal year. The package contained full appropriations bills for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, (though it did not increase their funding levels) and essentially continues FY12 funding for all other accounts. The bill's overall funding level is in line with the $1.043 trillion cap agreed to under the 2011 debt ceiling agreement, but because of the sequester, net new budget authority would instead reach $984 billion.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Budget, we don't need no stinking budget!  Let's just keep voting on the parts, that way none of will be responsible for the debt. My part was most important. 

Upcoming Votes:


Department of Defense, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 - H.R.933The Senate will take up the continuing appropriations measure on Monday and is expected to pass the measure this week. There appears to be agreement in the body to add full bills for Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, and Homeland Security.
See above....

Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act - H.R.803
This bill would largely consolidate several dozen workforce investment and job training programs into one in which funding would be doled out in block grants to states. The bill's committee markup last week was notable for Democrats' boycott of the proceedings. They said it was a partisan measure largely identical to a bill the committee passed last year along party lines.
Blocking money, government teaching citizens how to spend money.  Oxymoron.

Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013 - H.R.890
The House is scheduled to consider this bill, passed out of the Ways and Means committee last week, to counteract a Health Human Services Department waiver program that Republicans say would dilute work requirements in the federal welfare program.
Obama ain't letting this one get over the line. He'll keep giving out that money tell the cows come home (for their more money)!MegaVote is powered by the CQ-Roll Call Group
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