How High Is Not High Anymore?

Congress.org presents: MEGAVOTE released April 20, 2015 for Georgia's 13th Congressional District.

Recent Congressional Votes
 * Senate: Medicare Payments to Physicians - Passage
 * House: Manufactured Housing High-Cost Mortgages - Passage
 * House: State and Local Sales Tax Deductions - Passage
 * House: Estate Tax Repeal – Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills
 * Senate: Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act
 * House: Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act
 * House: Energy Efficiency Improvement Act
 * House: Protecting Cyber Networks Act

Recent Senate Votes:
Medicare Payments to Physicians - Passage Vote Passed (92-8)
The Senate passed a bill that would repeal the sustainable growth rate formula and replace it with a system in which physicians could choose to participate in either a reimbursement method where their payments would be subject to adjustments based on performance or a method where they would move away from the fee-for-service structure. It would provide for a 10-year transition period under which Medicare reimbursement rates would gradually increase annually until 2020 and then remain stable for five years. The bill is cleared for the president.
Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES
Sen. David Perdue voted NO
Politicians cementing the permanence of Affordable Care Act. Who knows what the hell it means, politicians making plans 10 years out is sort of like telling a fairy tale. Means that it does not have to be a topic for discussion until after the next president serves two terms. For me, if President Obama is for it, it probably is bad news for anybody outside of the privileged government class.

Recent House Votes:
Manufactured Housing High-Cost Mortgages - Passage Vote Passed (263-162, 6 Not Voting)
The House passed a bill that would modify federal rules regarding high-cost-mortgages as they apply to manufactured housing, specifically by changing the definitions of "high-cost mortgage" and "mortgage originator" under federal law to reduce associated regulatory requirements. The measure would change the definition of high-cost mortgage by increasing the maximum rates and fees that a lender may charge on loans for manufactured housing without that mortgage being considered a high-cost mortgage.
Rep. David Scott voted YES
Official word games, a high cost loan is not a high cost loan anymore because high is not so high anymore. Appropriate or not, who knows, they dick around and pretend they are helping while all they are doing is saying worthless things to make people feel cared for while they sign up for loans they might not be able to afford.  Sound familiar anyone?

State and Local Sales Tax Deductions - Passage Vote Passed (272-152, 7 Not Voting)
The House passed a bill that would make permanent the ability of taxpayers to deduct state and local sales taxes in lieu of state and local income taxes, which expired at the end of 2014. The measure would be effective for tax years beginning with 2015.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
This little but pirate David Scott voted against stopping the imminent closure of a tax deduction. You know the reason why, because the majority of his real base are simply Alternative Minimum Tax payers, to stop this deduction would not benefit those folks at all. Sure makes me feel protected. Good thing the gerrymandered benefiting representative is in the minority.

Estate Tax Repeal – PassageVote Passed (240-179, 12 Not Voting)
The House passed a bill that would repeal the federal estate tax. The measure also would repeal the generation-skipping transfer tax and reduce the top marginal rate for the federal gift tax from 40 percent to 35 percent.
Rep. David Scott voted NO
See about two inches up, David Scott is a bastard.

Upcoming Votes:

Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act - S.178
The bill would provide justice for the victims of trafficking.
Worthless political drivel, how to politicians ever "provide justice". Slavery is already a crime, if you want to make the penalties for that greater, do that.

Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act - H.R.471
The bill would improve enforcement efforts related to prescription drug diversion and abuse, and for other purposes.
Interesting how the bill leads off with the term "ensuring". The description suggests that it is about enforcement, not making sure folks have access.

Energy Efficiency Improvement Act - S.535
The bill would promote energy efficiency.
A waste of time, economics drives energy efficiency, politicians just add drag to the free market system.

Protecting Cyber Networks Act - H.R.1560
The bill would improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes.
The blind leading the sightless.

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