legislation
The bills that Congress reject are as informative as the ones it does. Reviews of all the legislation that meet their fate in government halls.
Bryan Watch: Dec 2021 NPL
The House cast 37 votes that were non-partisan in December. Rep. Steil voted with the sensible majority on all of them, so there isn’t much news there. But in the interests of full coverage, here are the mostly mundane votes the House cast during the first two weeks of December.
By John Heckenlively4 years ago in The Swamp
Bryan Watch: November 2021
Note: I am starting with Week 3, as it contained the biggest vote of the month, on Build Back Better. Overall, there were a total of 44 votes in November, 14 were party line, 30 non-party line. Rep. Steil voted with the Republicans 100 percent of the time in November, never thinking for himself at all.
By John Heckenlively4 years ago in The Swamp
Bryan Watch: Late July 2021
Note: Sorry about the long, long delay. Catching up on several months of House votes before the year wraps up. The House was fairly busy at the end of July, casting 36 votes, 28 of them partisan. As usual, Steil answered at his party’s call, voting with the Republican caucus 27 of 28 times.
By John Heckenlively4 years ago in The Swamp
Dear Pomona, California
This town, I know, has always been...like this. There have always been gangs, and there has always been a problem with transients from other parts of the country and world ... something about leaving their home state to either travel the country by foot, or, the usual - which is that a kid on the other side of the country was lured here to Southern California.
By Roxanne Cottell4 years ago in The Swamp
China's U Turn to Allow Couples to Have Three Children Wouldn't Amount to Much (sic)
China announced yesterday that it would now permit couples to have three children, up from the two that it specified in 2015, and a marked departure from its longstanding One Child Policy. While the One Child Policy was an attempt to slow down the burgeoning population in the 1950s after the Revolution, and was widely seen as draconian and severe, it was successful in preventing a Demographic Explosion that would have spelled much trouble for a country that was already the most populous in the world.
By Rammohan Susarla5 years ago in The Swamp
Peaceful protest gone wrong!
A lot of times i have always thought that democracy was meant to be or may be termed as a government for the people, by the people, and of the people. Or maybe should i say it refers to a form of government in which the people either have the authority to choose their governing legislators, or the authority to decide on legislation. But in Nigeria, the reverse is always being the case. On the 12th of June is the nation's democracy day celebration.
By Olalekan Adeeko5 years ago in The Swamp
Disaster Relief Planning Reform:
2020 was an unprecedented year. FEMA called it our costliest year yet with a whopping 22 disasters. (Sillman, JD, 2021). It was a year of apocalyptic proportions that included wildfires, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, and a pandemic, during which our disaster relief fund took a significant hit. Although the United States is no amateur in the natural disaster department, this year was expensive and challenging for our disaster relief fund. It was particularly so for the state of Texas who experienced the pandemic as well as extreme temperatures. FEMA recently provided the CSRA with funding to mitigate disaster relief.
By Diana Herrera5 years ago in The Swamp
