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It's simple really

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0da240 No.1[Reply]

This board is the place to post laws that are passing, have passed, and those that have been defeated.
Discuss them, their merits, their perils, and everything about them.
Extra emphasis on bills that are gutted and changed, earmarked, and/or full of shady practices.

In the interest of making sure the information is clear and usable, make threads with links to the bill in question and the issues arising from it.
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221a93 No.56[Reply]

Why is self defence illegal?

fa58f4 No.57

>>56
Relevant bill?


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87485e No.2[Reply]

Sec 309
"shall permit the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of covered communications"

Not terrifying at all. We definitely want this passed…I mean it's for our best interests…right guys?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4681
(The Bill Itself)

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll558.xml
(How the Bill was Passed 3-1)

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll271.xml
(Final Verdict of Bill Passing Congress)


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87485e No.51

So we made a fucking difference

HR 4681 was amended once again to require a warrant for data collection. We fucking did it 8chan.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4681

9d45f6 No.52

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>>51
Hell yeah

87485e No.53

>>51
Retracted. Drunken blindness and reading disinfo. The shit we hate is still there.

139f9a No.54

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>>53
Mfw

87485e No.55

>>54
I was browsing the pol thread and was up a little late with the scotch reading other bullshit bills, and they claimed it, i browsed the summary, changed, and not the text. The sneaky niggers didn't change a word of the text to STILL try and slide it by. It's sad.


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b35f55 No.22[Reply]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/5739/text

Even if these individuals have paid into the system and meet the requirements of a "qualified alien" they could lose this income.
Interesting.
Thoughts?
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29bc83 No.43

So it's basically removal of rights based on political views and the indivuduals ideology which, if i remember correctly, is unconstitutional?

b35f55 No.44

>>43
The law is basically for actual members of the WWII era Nazi party. Not Nazi sympathizers.
However it's grey enough that some of the people if they hadn't committed a crime themselves but were just party to others committing them that this might be ex post facto I believe.


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027ee6 No.40[Reply]

HR 758 lays all the legislative groundwork necessary to denounce Putin, provide military support to Ukraine, and obliterate a diplomatic resolution between the US, NATO, Ukraine, and Russia. Kind of a scary prospect.


https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hres758/text

09ce8a No.41

This is basically a declaration of war if they don't cooperate.

027ee6 No.42

>>41

That was my interpretation, too. :-/


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0f0ae6 No.6[Reply]

Today the House passed a controversial spending bill that will keep the government running until October 2015.

Unfortunately, there are some serious flaws in this bill. One of these is a provision which would allow big banks like Citigroup to engage in risky trading with taxpayer-backed money.

Details here;

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/spending-bill-992-derivatives-citigroup-lobbyists

Another problem with this spending bill is the impact it will have, if passed by the Senate on Monday, on campaign finance. This bill would increase the maximum yearly amount that an individual donor can make to the DNC or RNC from $32,400 all the way up to $324,000. This would have serious consequences for campaign finance reform. More information available here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/09/spending-deal-would-allow-wealthy-donors-to-dramatically-increase-giving-to-national-parties/

This legislation was a compromise bill between Obama's crew and House Republicans. Obama likely supports it because it doesn't restrict funding for his immigration executive order.

Harry Reid says he expects the legislation to pass through the Senate on Monday.
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8e9cc2 No.20

>>18
Just more proof that there are only a few people in congress on either side of the isle that give a shit about the american public.

0f0ae6 No.23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpTxONxvoo

8e9cc2 No.25

>>23
Warren is based as fuck on this issue for sure.

0f0ae6 No.34

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/senate-deal-vote-11-trillion-spending-bill

After days of rancor and uncertainty on Capitol Hill, the Senate has passed a massive spending bill, formally averting a government shutdown and sending the $1.1 trillion measure to the president’s desk.

The vote, which pitted both parties’ establishment against its more populist wings, was 56-40.

Twenty-one Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against the measure.

The bill funds most of the government until September 2015, although it sets up another battle over the funding of the Department of Homeland Security early next year. Republicans who opposed the legislation said it did not do enough to curb the president’s immigration policy; some Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, objected to the insertion of language rolling back Wall Street reforms.

4c6dcc No.39

>>6
There's so much pork in this bill. Its a free for all


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10ab27 No.24[Reply]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c113:3:./temp/~c113xUIoJn::

So we are giving them defense systems, building up their infrastructure, sharing security information, and collaborating with the on countering "cyber crime" which is not defined of course.
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6f7483 No.11[Reply]

Michigan - HOUSE BILL No. 5958

http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billengrossed/House/htm/2014-HEBH-5958.htm

6 (b) "Exercise of religion" means the practice or observance of
7 religion, including an act or refusal to act, that is substantially
8 motivated by a sincerely held religious belief, whether or not
9 compelled by or central to a system of religious belief.

Being touted as and anti-gay bill allowing EMTs to refuse to treat people based on religious beliefs. taking such an action would, of course, violate the Hippocratic oath, so why would this law allow that?

Thoughts?
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c24492 No.17

I was under the impression that it was inapplicable to emergency servicemen, including doctors and nurses in the ER.

6f7483 No.19

>>17
Section 5 applies to all laws of this state and of a political subdivision of this state, and the implementation of those laws, whether statutory or otherwise and whether adopted before or after the effective date of this act, unless [a law of this state] explicitly excludes application by reference to this act.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to preempt or repeal any law that is equally or more protective of religious exercise than this act.

So the only loopholes are if the law of the state says "NO! this new law doesn't apply here" or if the law has equal or more religious protectoin


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