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H.R.5830 - FHA Housing Stabilization and Homeownership Retention Act of 2008
- opinionatedlady1972 : The only way we can stabilize anything in thsi economy is to re-educate consumers on how to use money correctly, cap interest rates on home, car and credit purchases to below 10%, have the government intervene with oil company profits, the government also needs to focus on rebuilding this country with strong values. It has run wild and there is no respect amongst our youth, we lag behind in technology growth, to much outsourcing, not enough jobs, cost of living rising, all this will increase all the negatives.....theft, homelessness, agression, fear, confidence ect...Are we living in HELL? I think we are coming close. This will be a very viscious cycle we will live to see and it will not be pretty. the new president will have lots to do, rebuild relationships destroyed by Bush and his horrible decisions, rebuild the economy, address healthcare, address energy concerns, Global warming....we have waited too long and have spent way to much time on other poeple problems,..get back to basics...focus on the USA and USA only!!! The peolpe here will soon be on those charitable commercials for funds....that's where we are heading. Will we become a third world country?????
- KenBrandel : Help, this is all I ask. I am one of those who, in time will lose their home. I was one who gambled that the market would stay up. My gamble lost and now I am trying to find a solution before everything falls apart. The United States is in its worst time. Our dollar amounts to very little in the rest of the world. Our people are becoming homeless because they were lead to believe that the market was still good and they had nothing to worry about. We are fighting a war that we will never win and it's costing us trillions of dollars. Everybody was having too much fun and didn't realize that what goes up must come down. What do we do? There are millions of us that are going to be homeless with our families in tow. Again, I ask for help.
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H.R.4279 - PRO-IP Act of 2007
- Anonymous : CongressCritter, I believe you are missing the point.
I don't think anyone is saying it is okay to steal music or sell music.
The problem is many people don't consider their activities to be 'stealing' while the industry does.
If I buy a CD and rip it to my computer so I can put it on my ipod, or a DVD I bought to watch on my nice LCD monitor, I see nothing wrong. Most people won't. But I have read papers saying that ripping the information is illegal as it bypasses copyright protection. Even if I don't plan to distribute and the files simply sit on the hard drive, its illegal.
While no one wants to admit it, this concept of 'stealing' by making copies of something has existed for quite a long time. The RIAA and MPAA never went after people who made mix tapes or used VCRs to record their favorite shows to the best of my knowledge. The only difference now is that this copying is very easy to do. Before someone could make a few copies of a tape or CD at a time before it got too expensive and time consuming. Now only one person needs to have the file to make 1000s of copies almost instantly.
- Anonymous : @ CongressCritter: please be a troll.
I don't see how the duplication of copyrighted material is equivalent to stealing, but whatever. Money doesn't make talent, so I don't see why musicians complain about this crap.
Last time I checked, ripping CDs for private and archival use isn't illegal. If it was, I don't think Microsoft would put a feature to rip CDs inside one of their own programs.
"Hey maybe I should still your bike, car etc. after all I don't have enough of them !", "Free Mercedes for everyone !". First of all, you're comparing almost 2 completely different things, and secondly, you're clearly using the word "stealing" in a completely irrelevant way.
"Go book some studio time, market the record, front all the costs and then have your CD ripped and spun to the World for free. Then when you're holding YOUR ASS in YOUR HANDS come crying to me about how bad the "mean business people suck.", if I was a professional artist, I wouldn't give two god damn shits about one of my songs appearing on LimeWire or something.
"Don't support the Artists and Artisans that create the product...Steal It !", haha, still using "stealing" in a completely irrelevant way.
I hope you die in a fire. Feel free to respond, too.
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- S.2063 - A bill to prohibit the transfer of technology developed using funding provided by the United States Government to entities of certain countries, and for other purposes.
- H.R.3834 - Advancing America's Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2012
- H.R.3782 - OPEN Act
- S.2029 - OPEN Act
- S.2008 - Next Generation Television Marketplace Act of 2011
- H.R.3674 - Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act of 2011
- H.R.3675 - Next Generation Television Marketplace Act
- S.2000 - Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
- H.R.3688 - Equity for Visual Artists Act of 2011
- H.R.3476 - American Growth, Recovery, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship Act
- H.R.3497 - Modernizing Our Drug & Diagnostics Evaluation and Regulatory Network Cures Act of 2011
- H.R.3487 - Secret Ballot Protection Act
- S.1882 - FAIR Generics Act
- S.1867 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
- S.1866 - American Growth, Recovery, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship Act
- S.1830 - Protect American Innovation Act of 2011
- H.R.3375 - To direct the President to impose duties on merchandise from the People's Republic of China in an amount equivalent to the estimated annual loss of revenue to holders of United States intellectual property rights as a result of violations of such intellectual property rights in China, and for other purposes.
- H.R.3343 - Songwriters Tax Simplification Reauthorization Act
- H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act
- S.1734 - Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now Act of 2011
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- H.R.3682 - Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011
- H.R.3530 - Freddie Mac Debt Reduction Act of 2011
- H.R.3499 - To require the Secretary of Agriculture to use section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935, to provide compensation to certain poultry producers whose poultry production contracts were terminated or not renewed because of the closure of poultry processing plants and other cost cutting measures undertaken by a poultry processing company in bankruptcy protection.
- S.1835 - United States Covered Bond Act
- S.1821 - Temporary Bankruptcy Judgeships Extension Act of 2011
- H.R.3196 - Peremptory Challenge Act of 2011
- H.R.3108 - Congress Leads by Example Act of 2011
- H.R.2713 - Limiting Investor and Homeowner Loss in Foreclosure Act of 2011
- S.1449 - Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety Improvement Act of 2011
- H.R.2667 - Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2011
- H.R.2533 - Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Venue Reform Act of 2011
- H.R.2439 - Removing GSEs Charters During Receivership Act of 2011
- H.R.2350 - Protecting Taxpayers in Transportation Asset Transfers Act
- S.1230 - Protecting Taxpayers in Transportation Asset Transfers Act
- H.R.2192 - National Guard and Reservist Debt Relief Extension Act of 2011
- S.1151 - Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011
- H.R.2112 - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2012
- H.R.2093 - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Investigative Commission Act
- H.R.2056 - To instruct the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to study the impact of insured depository institution failures, and for other purposes.
- H.R.2010 - Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2011
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