Coal Ass Death

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Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE, July 29, 2013 for Georgia's 13th Congressional District:

Recent Congressional Votes:

• Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates  Passage
• House: Defense Appropriations  NSA Phone Record Collection Amendment
• House: Defense AppropriationsFinal Passage
• House: Coal Ash Regulations  Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills:

• Senate: Transportation & HUD Appropriations
• House: Transportation & HUD Appropriations

Recent Senate Votes:

Student Loan Interest Rates  Passage
Vote Passed (81-18, 1 Not Voting)
Senators moved to end a months-long partisan standoff over federal student loan interest rates by passing a bill July 24 that would tie rates to the governments cost of borrowing. Sixteen Senate Democrats opposed the plan over concerns that the move to a variable rate would burden students with more debt in a couple of years. The bill would link student loan interest rates to the 10-year Treasury note. Senators adopted a substitute amendment by voice vote that would add 2.05 percentage points to the note rate for both the subsidized and unsubsidized portions of undergraduate loans, 3.6 points for graduate loans and 4.6 points for PLUS loans. As amended, the bill would cap the rates for undergraduate loans at 8.25 percent, graduate loans at 9.5 percent and PLUS loans at 10.5 percent. The current bill differs only slightly from the original version, which also set the interest rates on the 10-year Treasury note and passed the House, 221-198, in May. The House is expected to clear the measure this week. The White House, which threatened to veto the original House bill, backs the Senate compromise.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss voted YES
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Government price fixing fosters inefficiency and political pandering. As said before, a college education is a privilege that is expensive and made more expensive by the government adding cheap money to the equation. Shame on the Georgia Senators for giving young adults their first taste of the government teat.

Recent House Votes:

Defense Appropriations  NSA Phone Record Collection Amendment
Vote Failed (205-217, 12 Not Voting)
An unlikely pair of Michiganders, Republican Justin Amash and Democrat John Conyers Jr. united to ensure a House floor vote on the Amash sponsored amendment to the fiscal 2014 defense appropriations bill that would restrict collection of telephone records through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders to only data involving people under investigation. 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats supported the bill; however, a group of 134 Republicans and 83 Democrats voted to kill the amendment. Republican John A. Boehner of Ohio voted no, a rare vote from the House Speaker that showed how close the vote was. The White House opposed the amendment.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
The Speaker voted against limiting the governments reach into private information. After all, there has to be some limit to the extents a government, by the people and for the people, has to work to pry into the private lives of citizens. Boehner, Scott, Obama the unholy trinity.

Defense Appropriations Final Passage
Vote Passed (315-109, 9 Not Voting)
After clearing numerous amendments, the House passed the C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla. sponsored legislation funding the Defense department for fiscal year 2014. After a split on the NSA amendment, 220 Republicans were joined by 95 Democrats in support of the bill with only 8 Republicans in opposition. It would provide $512.5 billion in non-war discretionary funding and $82.3 billion in contingency funds to support operations in Afghanistan and the general war on terrorism. The bill also includes a 1.8 percent pay raise for military personnel. The White House has already threatened to veto the legislation over provisions intended to limit executive branch budgetary and policy options, including effectively barring civilian furloughs in the next fiscal year, forbidding cuts in the strategic weapons arsenal and preventing spending to implement reductions required by the New START nuclear-arms agreement. The Senate likely wont take up the legislation until after the August recess.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
More Senatorial obstruction on the horizon, why doesn't the press ever talk about this.  Reid threatens Republicans blocking nomination votes with changes to filibuster rules on nominees and the press is all over it.  The Senator kills house bill after bill and hardly a peep.  Do you think it could be because the press agrees with the Senator's obstructions?  Scott is again on the right side.

Coal Ash Regulations  Passage
Vote Passed (265-155, 13 Not Voting)
In the last vote of the week, the House passed a bill that would allow states to create and implement their own permit programs for coal combustion residuals, removing that authority from the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA would still be able to review state permit programs in a limited manner. The Senate is unlikely to consider the legislation.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
So the Senate will let this die a quiet death, a bill that relinquishes rights to the states that the states already possess by definition in the Constitution. The perversion of the commerce clause is an excellent example of how central government will increase is power through the smallest of loopholes. Thanks to David Scott for getting this vote on the proper side of the issue.  The White House, the EPA and the Senate Democrats are all wrong on this issue.  Their posture is already costing consumers billions of dollars at the gas pumps and electric bills are soon to follow as soon as the natural gas industry is helped to a position of monopoly.

Upcoming Votes:

Transportation & HUD Appropriations - S.1243
The Senate is scheduled to debate legislation that would fund the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments.
Money for people who wouldn't mow the lawn.  The Senate will give money away and we've little to say about it.

Transportation & HUD Appropriations - H.R.2610
The House is schedule to consider its version of the legislation that funds the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development departments.

Money for people who can't keep a check book.  The House will  fall all over themselves to help damn fools buy house they cannot afford. And who will pick up the tab for the bankruptcies?  Why, you and I, of course.


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