The investigative reporting that exposed the government impropriety on the part of the officials of the City of Bell would not be possible if legislation passed as part of the state budget is signed into law. Because these laws place a mandated cost on to local entities, legislators and the governor, are trying to prevent local agencies from demanding reimbursement from the state for their compliance by making all of its provisions voluntary.
UPDATE 6/17/2013: On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to release one or more opinions from its current term with the remaining opinions issued by the end of the month. The pending opinions include rulings on both Proposition 8 on March 26th (Hollingsworth v. Perry), and the Defense of Marriage Act (U.S. v. Windsor) on March 27th, 2013.
The battle between House Oversight Committee Reps. Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings continues. After weeks of hearings on the IRS scandal, the only things left unseen are the transcripts from private interviews Issa and a bipartisan group of committee members conducted with workers from the Cincinnati IRS. Issa doesn’t want the public to see the transcripts.
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) introduced legislation in the House of Representatives this week aimed at curbing sexual assaults in the military and holding commanders more accountable for their actions; H.R. 2230, the Track it to Prevent It Act.
On CNN this past Sunday Darrell Issa answered what Lawrence O’Donnell titled the “Most Ridiculous Question” of the Sunday Talk shows when Candy Crowley asked on CNN’s State of the Nation; “What does your gut tell you now?” regarding the trumped up IRS scandal
After a failed run for the Presidency in 2012, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann continued to push her extremist agenda on the American public with reckless abandon. From my perspective she was the last TEA-Party extremist I would have expected to leave congress. I was wrong.
Anthony Weiner, the former Congressman from New York, announced yesterday that he is planning on running for Mayor of New York City. Does the former Congressman deserve a second chance?
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