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Ok, let's get started, this is about a week late and what will be coming out soon may have more than the normal amount of histrionics. This may be a low key precursor.

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

Recent Congressional Votes

 * Senate: No Child Left Behind Overhaul - Passage

 * House: Veterans Loans - Passage

 * House: Transportation Funding and California Drought – Passage

 * House: California Drought – Passage

Upcoming Congressional Bills

 * Senate: Hire More Heroes Act

 * House: Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act

 * House: Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act

Recent Senate Votes:

No Child Left Behind Overhaul - Passage Vote Passed (81-17, 2 Not Voting)

The Senate passed a bill that would reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the law that authorizes federal spending on kindergarten through high school. It would let states decide how to judge schools' success and wouldn't require any type of teacher evaluation. It would require states to continue testing students annually, but would leave it up to states to decide what weight those scores have when rating schools.

Sen. Johnny Isakson voted YES

Sen. David Perdue voted YES

 This sounds like its giving more control to the states Mitch, are you sure that you shouldn't check to see if President didn't like it first?

Recent House Votes:

Veterans Loans - Passage Vote Passed (410-1, 22 Not Voting)

The House agreed to a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill that would permanently waive the guarantee fee for veterans and their spouses applying for Small Business Administration (SBA) express loans, beginning Oct. 1, 2015. The bill defines eligibility for the waiver based on the veteran status of the loan applicant, rather than whether the business is considered a veteran-owned small business.

Rep. David Scott voted YES

 Waiving fees that their own bureaucracy created, they are such good people, always looking out fot the the little guys.

Transportation Funding and California Drought – Passage Vote Passed (312-119, 2 Not Voting)

The House passed a bill that would reauthorize federal-aid highway and transit programs through Dec. 18, 2015 and would transfer $8.1 billion in funding from the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund to cover projected trust fund shortfalls over that time. The measure completely offsets the cost of the proposed funding transfer by extending for two years the current budgetary treatment of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) fees as mandatory savings and through several tax compliance provisions.

Rep. David Scott voted YES

Sound like the approval of a lie. Designating that interdepartmental fees are classified as mandatory savings?

California Drought – Passage Vote Passed (245-176, 12 Not Voting)

The House passed a bill that would  require that more water from Northern California be pumped south for agricultural uses in the Central Valley in times of drought, and would require the Interior and Commerce departments to approve any emergency projects or operations that would quickly provide additional water to those users. The bill would also implement a coordinated environmental review process to expedite the environmental review of certain water projects, such as dams and water storage facilities.

Rep. David Scott voted YES

Expediting the review process of governmental agencies. Most of which are populated with people whose purpose supersedes the good of the general public. The damned government is the problem assholes. Stop trying to make everything better, you are only good at screwing things up.

Upcoming Votes:

Hire More Heroes Act - H.R.22

The bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Another opportunity for politicians to vote for something that make them look good, expends a huge portion of energy and capital on systemic friction and delivers very little to the needy. 

Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act - H.R.1557

The bill would amend the Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 to strengthen Federal antidiscrimination laws enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and expand accountability within the Federal government, and for other purposes.

Brought to you by a government that profits from picking one group over another.

Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act - H.R.1599

The bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to food produced from, containing, or consisting of a bioengineered organism, the labeling of natural foods, and for other purposes.

Businesses are pulling some dishonest shit with their customer, but I am guess that as usual the act was probably written by food industry lobbyists and creates loopholes for the industry leaders.  We're just the pigs at the trough, gobbling up whatever crap they create.

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