Your horoscope for the day is accountablity

Want to know how your legislator voted on a particular bill? There’s a resource from the Washington Post to give you the information. By state, select the senator or representative of your choice to see a complete listing of her/his votes bill by bill, as well as the official position of each party.
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Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007

By an overwhelming margin of 420-3, the House of Representatives passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007, which forbids discrimination in employment and health insurance. (You can read the entire bill in pdf form here.) Under the provisions of this law, discrimination on the basis of genetic testing would become a crime, [...]

Bill S.910.IS

S.910
Title: A bill to require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.
Sponsor: Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] (introduced 4/26/2005)     Cosponsors(17)
Related Bills: H.R.1849
Latest Major Action: 4/26/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred [...]

Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, Part Deux

The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act was reintroduced in Congress on 27 January 2006 under the auspices of Sen. Sam Brownback (Rep. KS). This bad piece of legislation, based on emotion, not science, just won’t go away. Now a paper in the British Medical Journal takes up the issue with facts designed to [...]

A sane policy

Finally, a bill has been introduced to overturn the idiotic policy of denying funds to family planning services around the world. Read the full text of the resolution here.
H.R.4736
Title: To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize assistance to provide contraceptives in developing countries in order to prevent unintended pregnancies, abortions, and [...]

HR 3128 RH - freedom from discrimination

This bill reported and recorded yesterday in the US House of Representatives would lay for rest permanently the question of whether federal employees are to be free from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
I’m sure it will be a real dog fight, when/if it ever comes to the floor. In the meantime, carefully [...]

S.1110 and pet-blogging

S.1110 : A bill to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require engine coolant and antifreeze to contain a bittering agent in order to render the coolant or antifreeze unpalatable.
Sponsor: Sen Allen, George [Rep-VA] (introduced 5/24/2005)
Cosponsors (11)
Committees: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Latest Major Action: 11/17/2005 Senate committee/subcommittee actions.
Status: Committee on Commerce, Science, and [...]

S.J.Res.1 - ‘Marriage Protection Amendment’

S.J.RES.1
Title: A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage.
Sponsor: Sen Allard, Wayne [CO] (introduced 1/24/2005)
Cosponsors (28)
Related Bills: H.J.RES.39
Latest Major Action: 11/17/2005 Senate committee/subcommittee actions.
Status: Committee on the Judiciary.
Date of scheduled consideration. SD-226. 9:30 a.m.
S. J. RES. 1
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United [...]

No firearms liability

Back on 23 June 2005 I wrote about S.397, a bill before the Senate to limit the liability of gun manufacturers in court. I’m disappointed to report that the measure passed, as did its companion bill in the House yesterday, and is on its way to the White House, where reports say that Pres. [...]

H.R.3763 and S.1749–Fair Wage Guarantee

H.R.3763
Title: To reinstate the application of the wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act to Federal contracts in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, George [CA-7] (introduced 9/14/2005)
Cosponsors (204)
Latest Major Action: 10/12/2005 Referred to House subcommittee.
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
S.1749
Title: A bill to reinstate the application of the wage [...]

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