Senate Bill 1813: Congress Is About To Pass An Outrageous Bill With New Restrictions On Traveling, Driving And International Banking

April 18, 2012
Madrid, Spain

 

The US Passport Act of 1926 is an obscure piece of legislation that was enacted decades ago when the idea of passports starting catching fire around the world.

Subsequently absorbed into US Code Title 22, the law was originally intended to authorize and issue passports for US citizens to travel abroad.

Several years ago, the law was modified to provide the Secretary of State with the authority to revoke [...]

Owe the IRS? New bill could allow the federal government to prevent Americans who owe back taxes from leaving the country.

Diane Macedo
Fox News
April 15, 2012

A new bill making its way through Congress could allow the federal government to prevent Americans who owe back taxes from leaving the country.

The provision is part of Senate Bill 1813, which was introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in November and passed by the Senate on March 14 “to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.”

Those “other purposes” have come [...]

Governments Everywhere Having Deep Money Problems

Bob Chapman
International Forecaster
Thursday, April 12, 2012

It was 13 months ago we disclosed that the administration passed a stimulus bill known as the $17.5 billion “Hiring Incentives Act” to restore employment. It required that foreign banks not only withhold 30% of all outgoing capital flows, and disclosure of the full details of transactions of non-exempt holders to the Internal Revenue Service. They want the structure of how money ended up at [...]

Senate Bill 1813: Bill would suspend passport for unpaid taxes more than $50,000… allow for exceptions…

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law.

Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in November by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Los Angeles) to “reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes” .

After clearing the Senate on a 74 – [...]

The U.S. Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion highway bill that penalizes states that privatize new road construction

The U.S. Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion surface-transportation bill as states began to assess the impact of a provision that penalizes them for hiring companies to run highways.

The focus on the highway and transit package, which both parties framed as necessary for job creation, now returns to the House.

Speaker John Boehner has said the House may work from the Senate bill, which passed 74-22, if enough Republicans can’t be [...]