tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-22:/political_notebook/8 2008-09-22T22:11:21Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-19:/political_notebook_item/1932 2009-03-19T02:23:00Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-19:/political_notebook_item/1931 2009-03-19T02:22:41Z tag:opencongress.org,2009-02-23:/political_notebook_item/1570 2009-02-23T15:13:25Z To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for displaying nooses in public with intent to harass or intimidate a person because of that person's race, color, religion, or national origin. tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-22:/political_notebook_item/994 2009-01-22T21:21:16Z `(C) The minimum sentencing requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply if-- `(i) the person who used, carried, or possessed the firearm was authorized to carry that type of firearm in the lawful performance of an employment duty; `(ii) the offense under this paragraph occurred during or in relation to such employment; and `(iii) the crime during and in relation to which the offense under this paragraph occurred is a crime of violence.'. tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-14:/political_notebook_item/751 2009-01-14T13:38:34Z The message was clear: Despite Congress’s many objections to the Bush administration’s handling of the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), lawmakers — at least Democrats — are professing their faith that President-elect Barack Obama will spend the money more wisely and transparently than his predecessor. Trust, under this arrangement, has replaced the desire to legislate. tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-08:/political_notebook_item/681 2009-01-08T13:35:43Z A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to limiting the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-30:/political_notebook_item/623 2008-12-30T15:04:08Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-27:/political_notebook_item/604 2008-12-27T16:21:04Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-26:/political_notebook_item/600 2008-12-26T15:13:53Z love playing around with this. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-22:/political_notebook_item/592 2008-12-22T19:45:28Z the latest change congress pitch. citizens' funding of the nation's elections. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-16:/political_notebook_item/569 2008-12-16T12:17:34Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-14:/political_notebook_item/563 2008-12-14T23:30:52Z "As the nation’s automakers near collapse, global temperatures rise, and consumers and government wallow in debt, there might be a one-stop remedy for all three: raise the gas tax." tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-14:/political_notebook_item/561 2008-12-14T13:46:59Z "Honoring Toby Keith's commitment to members of the Armed Forces." tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-11:/political_notebook_item/529 2008-12-11T13:45:25Z this is awesome! tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-05:/political_notebook_item/503 2008-12-05T17:01:49Z Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President of the United States should not issue pardons to senior members of his administration during the final 90 days of his term of office. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-05:/political_notebook_item/502 2008-12-05T13:10:47Z To prohibit the importation for sale of foreign-made flags of the United States of America. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-02:/political_notebook_item/493 2008-12-02T16:20:09Z Lessig describing http://open-government.us/ tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-02:/political_notebook_item/492 2008-12-02T16:18:47Z OpenCongress and PPF signed on to this petition to have the Obama Transition Team follow three principles of openness for government data. tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-02:/political_notebook_item/482 2008-12-02T02:56:08Z "Ford Motor Co. plans to tell Congress it is retooling itself to build small fuel-efficient cars and break from the past strategy of focusing mainly on large pick up trucks and sport-utility vehicles, and will cut the compensation package of Chief Executive Alan Mulally, as part of its bid to win support for a federal bail out of the Big Three auto makers, a person familiar with the matter said." tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-27:/political_notebook_item/437 2008-11-27T22:03:24Z "As a sidenote to Obama's 66-32 blowout among 18-29 voters, check out how these same voters voted for the House. Not much different: 63-34. So, in casting an identity politics vote for Barack Obama, a hip young (by political standards) African American, young voters were also apt to vote straight ticket for the Democrats down ballot."