New Bills

In case anyone is getting too sidetracked by the Russian spy drama, the following bills have been introduced:
1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education
4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions)
8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
10. HR 808 Sanctions against Iran
Please copy/paste and share widely. Call your House Representative and ask them to not only vote "NO"...but to speak up for our rights, health & safety, and our beautiful country.
If your senators and reps aren't saved in your phone yet, text your zip code to 520-200-2223. You'll get a text back with everyone's contact info. It gives you Federal and State. PASS IT ON (cut and paste, don't share, for maximum views). This is participant democracy at work...

Hmm...a piece making the rounds on social media and originating with a (rather far left) "news" and opinion site.

Snopes has a brief but good write up on it (labeling it "mostly true" ). https://www.snopes.com/bills-introduced-by-republicans/

But it is worth noting that several of these proposed bills are little more then a title or a single line or paragraph, and are unlikely to ever advance much less come to a vote.

Several more are re-incarnations of bills that have existed before, sometimes for years. Some of which, in the past, have "passed" in the house but never moved through the Senate.

And some are being rather strangely portrayed if you actually read the text in the context of existing laws- such as both the planned parenthood and the abortion bills.


I don't know...but my feeling is campaigns such as this, that include "bills" that don't even exist in a meaningful form, that your congress critter has never heard of and will likely never even see a vote on, dilutes the entire purpose of informed concern. I tend to believe ones power as a member of the electorate is best reserved for issues where the politician who is beholden (in some tiny degree) to consider your input is likely to vote on an issue in a way you disagree with.