HR 4069 – by Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) - To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Shakeel Afridi (the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA nail Bin Laden)
SCR 34 – by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) - Mourns the loss of Vaclav Havel and offers condolences to the Havel family and the people of the Czech Republic. (According to sources Havel was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first of the Czech Republic, he wrote more than 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, he was the founder of the VIZE 97 Foundation and the principal organizer of the Forum 2000 annual global conference, he was one of the signatories of the Charter 77 manifesto, a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism and a council member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and received many recognitions including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award and the Ambassador of Conscience Award, was voted 4th in Prospect magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals; at the time of his death he was Chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation)
HCR 100 – by Representative Ben Quayle (R-AZ) - Recognizing February 14, 2012 as the centennial of the State of Arizona
HCR 89 - by Representative Ralph Hall (R-TX) - Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
SRes 376 – by Senator Roger (R-MS) - A resolution commemorating the 225th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States and recognizing the contributions of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
HRes 555 – by Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ) - To commemorate the life and accomplishments of Whitney Elizabeth Houston over the past 48 years; and expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives to her family upon her death
Granted the people identified in the measures were/are extraordinary but at a time when we need Congress to focus on bringing our country back I find this type of action a waste of its time and our money. I did not focus on a single party and apparently I’m not the only one interested in what Congress is doing.
Beingliberal.org says the Republicans are putting party before country. This website took the time to look at the bills Republicans introduced and found: 46 on abortion, 113 on religion, 73 on family relationships, 36 on marriage, 72 on firearms, 604 on taxation, and 467 on government investigation (total 1411 bills of which 268 have to do with abortion, religion, family relationships and marriage). Beingliberal.org also points out that the Republicans blocked the American Jobs Act that would get us on track for recovery. There are a total of 6,189 bills in Congress and Beingliberal.org identified only 1411 of them.
In my opinion the law governing abortion was already decided by the Supreme Court and we only need one bill that tells the states to stop passing bills that hinder such. Religion is covered in the Constitution – we have no single religion in this country and Republicans needs to get that through their thick heads. I have no idea what is being done on family relationships and marriage but I think the federal government needs to step up and deal with Gay marriage (or civil unions) so that we are equal in all states. I also do not know what the bills on firearms entail but we only need one to restrict where guns are allowed. As far as government taxation and investigations I can only guess that they aren’t geared at ending Wall Street corruption and tax loopholes for the rich, both of which I think need to be done.
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