NRDC reports that Speaker of the House John Boehner has just announced that he
plans to hold payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits hostage to a bill that would rubber stamp approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This legislation, proposed by Rep. Lee Terry (Neb.), is nothing like the bill the House voted on in the summer. Rather than requiring an expedited decision by the Administration, Terry’s new bill would require automatic approval of Keystone XL in thirty days, giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authority to permit (but not decline) a Presidential permit. In the process,
it also exempts TransCanada from having to abide by the same laws that domestic pipelines do – laws intended to protect the nation’s land and water.
Why not pick up the phone to let Lee Terry know what you think of using crude political extortion to help a wealthy foreign corporation make an end run around U.S. pipeline regulations by threatening payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits for needy Americans?
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Study shows that rats, unlike Rep. Terry,
are a lot nicer than their reputation.
Ron Paul:
extremists dictating U.S. foreign policy. "U.S. military involvement in conflicts overseas has expanded the national debt by $4 trillion over the past decade."
Foundation
establishes website to which Iowa kids can report school bullying; reports forwarded to appropriate schools, but foundation keeps an independent record of complaints.
Bill introduced to
prohibit American companies from exporting hardware or software that could be used for online surveillance or censorship to nations that restrict the Internet.
California woman says Oakland and Fremont, CA cops trashed her apartment, taunted her by keeping her informed about windows they were breaking, threatened her with prosecution, and then just left when the suspect they accused her of harboring was
found in another apartment.
Today's World-Herald quotes Nebraska's inexplicably popular GOP governor Dave Heineman as saying he won't take Sen. Mitch McConnell up on his constant
nagging entreaties to run against inexplicably popular Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, because "I love the job I'm doing." AKSARBENT wishes it could agree but sincerely hopes that if doing what he does makes Heineman happy, that someone from a sunnier climate recruits him to do it there.
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