Today in Washington – September 22, 2010

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 11:30 AM  | 

The House has 15 suspension votes scheduled for Wednesday.   The Senate will continue debate on the motion to proceed to S.3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill, even though cloture failed yesterday.  Tomorrow, the Senate is expected to take up a motion on the DISCLOSE Act, S.3628. This is the same unconstitutional bill that received only 57 votes to shut down debate on July 27th.  The current expectation is that the House and Senate | Read More »

The Obama CYA Act of 2009

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  March 19th at 01:37 PM  | 

The House is debating HR 1586, a bill that would tax bonuses given to employees of bailed out businesses.  The bill would tax “90 percent of the TARP bonus received by the taxpayer.”  The TARP recipient’s employer must have received the money from “the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008″ (the TARP bailout), “the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation”, “members of | Read More »