REMEMBERING XV ~ Congress's Sorry Session
HAD ENOUGH * HAD ENOOUGH * HAD ENOUGH
VOICE IN & VOTE OUT!
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Congress's Sorry Session By David S. Broder
From 3/7/2006 - Bully for Profit aka Lawmaking American Style - The Hurricane Funding Bill for the Gulf Coast is at risk of being tampered with, twisted, chopped up and minced. There is absolutely no reason, on this earth and in the House, that this funding should be combined with any other legislative business.
This appears to be an under handed attempt to bully for profit. But maybe more than anything, the Hurricane Funding Bill was never meant to make it out of the House as a "SOLE" relief effort for many, many Gulf Coast citizens of the United States of America.
March 2006 - The Louisiana Connection - Might makes Right?
Update 3/30/2006...The Washington Post story link has disappeared......
Articles printed 3/16/06 - Senate passes 2.8 trillion budget - The Washington Post (3/16 now archived as of recent 3/30?) and the Times of India 3/17 online ran the original story from the Associated Press. It specifically quoted Senator Judd Greggs, Budget Committee Chairman as saying that he was not happy with the added provisions and that he believed 'his' budget plan would have cut deficits by 50% in a five year span of time. Democrats disagreed with this plan. Was Senator Greggs budget plan part of the on going problem? Senator Gregg is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, the committee that curiously never received the Presidents December request for an additional 1.5 billion for levee rebuilding. Senator Landrieu from Louisiana (also part of the Appropriations Committee) voted for the 2.8 trillion budget, in hopes to secure badly needed funding for her state. Whether the funding she seeks will actually materialize, only Senator Landrieu knows the depth of the conversations she had with her colleagues, her actions just had to be out sheer desperation of flawed Federal processes.
Link to The Washington Post removed, because they have archived it already? Go to the Times of India article through Google news search....Senate passes 2.8 trillion Judd Gregg.
March 18, 2006 - The Eye of the lens Captured the Eye of the Storm
Link to the Dallas Morning News to view photographic documentation of catastrophe in the Gulf Coast - New Orleans. This evening C-SPAN2 presented a panel of photographers sharing 'a picture is worth a thousand words' artistry. Seeing is believing what the mind can never sanely imagine.
March 22, 2006 - Creative Crazy Making
A drastic and immediate budget reduction to the New Orleans US Army Corps of Engineers in June of 2005 for fiscal year 2006 of 71 million dollars, meant pulling back and shelving front line work. An immediate hiring freeze meant immediate exclusion to local engineering firms to provide hurricane and flood control project assistance. Only a skeleton crew of Engineers would remain on the job in the projected 2006 year. Fast forward to 8/2005 the hurricanes and levee collapse. Fast forward to present day, the Corps of Engineers is still attempting levee repair, not levee rebuilding. With the deep federal cuts to last year for this year, in combination with an already struggling financial picture for New Orleans alone, it begs to be pondered, how many local level municipalities across this nation were federally scooped and gutted too? Probably over the years, most if not all cities and towns. How do we wrap our minds around this, as elections approach? Homework, Homework!!!
April 29, 2006 - Capital Hill Trying Hard To Do The "Right" Thing for Themselves
VOICE IN & VOTE OUT!
Sunday, October 8, 2006 Congress's Sorry Session By David S. Broder
From 3/7/2006 - Bully for Profit aka Lawmaking American Style - The Hurricane Funding Bill for the Gulf Coast is at risk of being tampered with, twisted, chopped up and minced. There is absolutely no reason, on this earth and in the House, that this funding should be combined with any other legislative business.
This appears to be an under handed attempt to bully for profit. But maybe more than anything, the Hurricane Funding Bill was never meant to make it out of the House as a "SOLE" relief effort for many, many Gulf Coast citizens of the United States of America.
March 2006 - The Louisiana Connection - Might makes Right?
Update 3/30/2006...The Washington Post story link has disappeared......
Articles printed 3/16/06 - Senate passes 2.8 trillion budget - The Washington Post (3/16 now archived as of recent 3/30?) and the Times of India 3/17 online ran the original story from the Associated Press. It specifically quoted Senator Judd Greggs, Budget Committee Chairman as saying that he was not happy with the added provisions and that he believed 'his' budget plan would have cut deficits by 50% in a five year span of time. Democrats disagreed with this plan. Was Senator Greggs budget plan part of the on going problem? Senator Gregg is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, the committee that curiously never received the Presidents December request for an additional 1.5 billion for levee rebuilding. Senator Landrieu from Louisiana (also part of the Appropriations Committee) voted for the 2.8 trillion budget, in hopes to secure badly needed funding for her state. Whether the funding she seeks will actually materialize, only Senator Landrieu knows the depth of the conversations she had with her colleagues, her actions just had to be out sheer desperation of flawed Federal processes.
Link to The Washington Post removed, because they have archived it already? Go to the Times of India article through Google news search....Senate passes 2.8 trillion Judd Gregg.
March 18, 2006 - The Eye of the lens Captured the Eye of the Storm
Link to the Dallas Morning News to view photographic documentation of catastrophe in the Gulf Coast - New Orleans. This evening C-SPAN2 presented a panel of photographers sharing 'a picture is worth a thousand words' artistry. Seeing is believing what the mind can never sanely imagine.
March 22, 2006 - Creative Crazy Making
A drastic and immediate budget reduction to the New Orleans US Army Corps of Engineers in June of 2005 for fiscal year 2006 of 71 million dollars, meant pulling back and shelving front line work. An immediate hiring freeze meant immediate exclusion to local engineering firms to provide hurricane and flood control project assistance. Only a skeleton crew of Engineers would remain on the job in the projected 2006 year. Fast forward to 8/2005 the hurricanes and levee collapse. Fast forward to present day, the Corps of Engineers is still attempting levee repair, not levee rebuilding. With the deep federal cuts to last year for this year, in combination with an already struggling financial picture for New Orleans alone, it begs to be pondered, how many local level municipalities across this nation were federally scooped and gutted too? Probably over the years, most if not all cities and towns. How do we wrap our minds around this, as elections approach? Homework, Homework!!!
April 29, 2006 - Capital Hill Trying Hard To Do The "Right" Thing for Themselves
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