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The U.S. will reach its debt limit on Saturday, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told congressional leaders in a letter on Friday, but said the U.S. is taking extraordinary measures to keep paying bills. Lew said those measures, including previously announced suspension of sales of state and local Treasury securities, won’t be exhausted until “after Labor Day.”
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-to-reach-debt-limit-saturday-lew-2013-05-17-13913025?link=MW_home_latest_news
Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s ‘not open to debate’
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew [...]
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan band of House members working on a comprehensive immigration bill has reached an agreement in principle, lawmakers said Thursday, after talks dragged on for months and appeared stalled earlier in the day.
The lawmakers did not provide details as they left a two-hour meeting Thursday evening, but said they would be working to write the measure.
“We have an agreement in principle. We’re now going to work on [...]
A fully-functional plastic gun has been made from a 3-D printer and the weapon would be undetectable from metal detectors.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday that he plans to introduce legislation that will ban these weapons.
‘We’re facing a situation where anyone — a felon, a terrorist — can open a gun factory in their garage and the weapons they make will be undetectable. It’s stomach-churning,’ he said.
‘Guns are made [...]
Rhode Island lawmakers gave final approval to a bill to legalize gay marriage on Thursday, making it the 10th U.S. state to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and the last of the six New England states to do so.
Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent, signed the bill into law almost immediately after the vote on Thursday. The new law will take effect on August 1.
“We would not be where we [...]
Take from the 99%, never the 1%.
from Bloomberg:
The Illinois House of Representatives approved a bill designed to repair the nation’s worst-funded pension system by raising contribution levels for state employees and delaying the retirement age.
The measure, approved today 62 to 51 in the Democrat- dominated chamber, faces an uncertain future in the Senate, which is preparing its own approach to resolving a $97 billion liability. With annual retirement costs projected [...]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Legislature is telling the federal government and others to back off on gun control.
The Senate passed legislation Tuesday declaring that “All federal acts, laws, orders, rules or regulations regarding firearms are a violation of the Second Amendment.” It also says federal laws in violation of the Second Amendment shall be considered null and void in Alabama. The vote was 24-6.
The sponsor, Republican Sen. Paul Sanford [...]
Washington (CNN) – Although worries about terrorism have edged up following the Boston Marathon bombings, a new national poll indicates only four in ten Americans say they are willing to give up some civil liberties to fight terrorism.
And according to a CNN/Time/ORC International survey, the public is particularly concerned about the government eavesdropping on their cell phones or reading their email.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/01/cnntime-poll-cutback-civil-liberties-to-fight-terror/
Four in 10 Americans say they would be willing to give up [...]
Arizona lawmakers pass bill making silver, gold legal tender
PHOENIX – The Arizona Senate on Tuesday approved a measure
to make gold and silver legal currency in the state, in a
response to what backers said was a lack of confidence in the
international monetary system.
The bill calls for Arizona to make gold and silver coins and bullion legal tender beginning in
mid-2014, joining existing U.S. currency issued by the federal government.
http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-lawmakers-pass-bill-making-silver-gold-legal-011925729.html
from Zero Hedge:
A few hours ago, Greek lawmakers approved a reform law to unlock about €8.8 billion of rescue loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. The law, which was a condition for further aid installments, passed easily with the solid backing of the three parties comprising Greece’s ruling coalition, by 168 to 123 votes. Next, euro zone officials will meet on Monday to approve overdue payment of [...]
Finally I’m starting to see some common sense legislation come out of these people.
Those who are going to get free or reduced cost lunches are most likely going to be ones that are raised with no work ethic, this might help with that. Naturally the Libs are going to fight this tooth and nail b/c it causes “inequities!”
Here in NC we finally passed a law that said people who get [...]
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their “massive” bullet buys.
“It is entirely … inexplicable why the Department of Homeland Security needs so much ammunition,” Chaffetz, R-Utah, said at a hearing.
The hearing itself was unusual, as questions about the department’s ammunition [...]
The chief of the FAA told Congress today that Washington-area airports will largely escape the effects of the air traffic controller furloughs — a blessing for lawmakers who fly out of the nation’s capitol.
Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, told a congressional panel that the Washington region’s airports are spaced out enough and have enough spare capacity that furloughs to air traffic controllers won’t hurt as much here.
Read [...]
The immigration proposal pending in Congress would transform the nation’s political landscape for a generation or more — pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily.
Beneath the philosophical debates about amnesty and border security, there are brass-tacks [...]
Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd
The internet is bracing itself for a blackout in protest against CISPA on Monday, as the controversial law makes its way to the US Senate. Hacktivist group Anonymous has urged for the blackout and is now storming Twitter with calls for action.
http://rt.com/usa/anonymous-internet-blackout-against-cispa-164/
from Reddit:
Official Unofficial CISPA Discussion Thread.
What is going on?
CISPA, or The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is a bill that has just passed [...]
Homeland Security had put a hold on Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s U.S. citizenship application because of 2011 FBI interrogation
Lawmakers have blasted the FBI’s handling of Tsarnaev case claiming the agency should have done more
Russia tipped FBI off to potential terrorist links but he was found to be clear of ‘terrorism activity’
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said agency ‘dropped the ball’ on several fronts
The Department of Homeland Security was dragging its [...]
Patrick Temple-West and Kim Dixon
news.yahoo.com
April 17, 2013
Senators could vote as early as next week on legislation that would give states the authority to collect sales taxes from online purchases, Democratic Senate aides said on Wednesday, a significant step forward after years of false starts.
Though the legal change provided by the bill has enjoyed bipartisan support for years, previous versions of this legislation have languished in Congress, facing opposition from some [...]
President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday barring members of Congress, the president and thousands of federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job, calling it an embodiment of the fundamental American value of fair play.
Obama said the move to bar insider trading among lawmakers would assure everyone “plays by the same rules.”
“It’s the notion that the powerful shouldn’t get to create one set of rules for themselves and [...]
The Saudi national injured during the bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon Monday has been cleared and is no longer even a person of interest, intelligence officials told lawmakers Tuesday.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper briefed members of the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors in a pre-scheduled hearing that was supposed to focus on the budget, but Clapper began with an update of the bombings. Ranking RepublicanSaxby Chambliss (R-GA) emerged from the [...]
“Relying on a stack of documents, Sachs told me when leadership in the general assembly brought the measure to lawmakers they did so by emergency certification, which is meant to speed up the process to pass a bill when an emergency calls for it. According to Sachs, state statute requires the speaker of the house and senate president to provide the facts in writing as to why an emergency certification [...]
PRO-GUN CONTROL SENATOR TO CNN ANCHOR: ‘WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT’
None of this is should come as a surprise. Tuesday, CNN came out of the closet with an open declaration that “The Most Trusted Name In News” would use two full days of programming as a propaganda push for legislation tightening background checks. CNN has been so good about keeping that promise that, this morning, a pro-gun control Senator thanked a CNN [...]
Uruguay‘s Congress has voted to legalise same-sex marriage, making it the second country in Latin America and the third in all the Americas to do so.
Seventy-one of 92 lawmakers in the lower house voted in favour of the proposal, one week after the senate passed it by a wide majority. President Jose Mujica is expected to sign the bill into law.
“I agree that family is the basis of society but I [...]
by Marin Katusa, Casey Research:
North Korea has been rattling its sabers once again, even producing some videos that threaten attacks on US forces using “powerful weapons of mass destruction” and show an invasion of Seoul where thousands of American citizens are taken hostage. American senators are already up in arms about how a “major war” is brewing on the Korean peninsula.
But as usual, American lawmakers are completely missing the point. The [...]
(CNN) – Republican leaders in Congress received a dire warning on Tuesday from former Vice President Dick Cheney on the ongoing crisis in North Korea.
“We’re in deep doo doo,” Cheney told lawmakers, according to a GOP leadership aide.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/09/cheney-to-gop-leaders-were-in-deep-doo-doo-on-north-korea/?hpt=hp_t1
Cheney talked about the North Korean leader, Southerland said, and shared some of his history dealing with Saddam Hussein, noting “you never know what they’re thinking.”
The White House is picking winners and losers as it cuts back because of the sequester, and a planned reception for American Jews is getting the short end of the stick.
Many other events are proceeding as planned, but according to the Jewish news service JTA, the annual White House celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month is canceled.
“Jewish invitees usually include luminaries in the arts, sports and sciences, lawmakers, armed services personnel [...]
Even with one of the largest hurdles to an immigration overhaul overcome, optimistic lawmakers cautioned on Sunday they had not finished work on a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants.
The AFL-CIO and the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce reached a deal late Friday that would allow tens of thousands of low-skill workers into the country to fill jobs in construction, restaurants and hotels.
Yet [...]
Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.
Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion should be left up [...]
From SHTFplan:
Last year, when the state of Illinois attempted to follow New Jersey by making it difficult and more expensive to acquire ammunition, we warned that new government initiatives would be used to try and circumvent the Second Amendment. Rather than targeting firearms directly, lawmakers and government security officials began looking to ammunition as a sure-fire way to disarm Americans.
While it may have been hard to believe then, given the [...]
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) wants to create a “virtual Congress,” where lawmakers would leverage videoconferencing and other remote work technology to conduct their daily duties in Washington from their home districts.
Under a resolution Pearce introduced on Thursday, lawmakers would be able to hold hearings, debate and vote on legislation virtually from their district offices.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/289947-republican-proposes-letting-lawmakers-work-from-home#ixzz2OSvjh3oc
Bloomberg.com
Cyprus is undermining trust in European banks and can be likened to Lehman Brothers Inc., whose collapse ignited the 2008 global economic crisis, Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin said.
“Very serious” levels of capital may be taken out of the island nation, destroying the economy and hurting the European Union, Potanin, chief executive officer of OAO GMK Norilsk Nickel, the world’s biggest producer of the metal, said in Moscow today.
Cyprus is seeking [...]
ERIE, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado ammunition magazine manufacturer is making good on a threat to leave the state after lawmakers approved new gun laws.
Magpul Industries says it plans to begin packing up as soon as possible for a move to several other states. A search is under way to find new locations.
http://news.yahoo.com/colo-company-leaving-over-gun-135643755.html
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