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November 19, 2004
Speaking of HW
It turns out that our new congressional district, the mighty Seventh of Texas, was once represented by the former President Bush. The current Rep. is John Culberson-R, whose congressional record I am now reviewing. His web site is very clear that he thinks "Texans Should Always Run Texas," which I imagine many might respond to by suggesting that no one deserves that. Some highlights of bills he's sponsored:
H.R.1305 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.
All good Americans supported this bill.
H.R.1740 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1502 East Kiest Boulevard in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr. Post Office Building".
H.R.1715 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8624 Ferguson Road in Dallas, Texas, as the "Cesar E. Chavez Post Office Building".
H.R.3775 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1502 East Kiest Boulevard in Dallas, Texas, as the "Dr. Caesar A.W. Clark, Sr. Post Office Building".
H.R.4717 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1199 Pasadena Boulevard in Pasadena, Texas, as the "Jim Fonteno Post Office Building".
H.R.4829 : To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 103 East Kleberg in Kingsville, Texas, as the "Irma Rangel Post Office Building".
H.R.3633 : To provide for dime coins to bear the likeness of President Ronald Reagan, the Freedom President, in honor of his work in restoring American greatness and bringing freedom to captive nations around the world.
The Freedom President? That's a new one, I didn't know you could legislate nicknames. I'll be proposing a bill to designate myself the Freedom Accountant next session, hopefully.
H.R.4528 : To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign the face of $10 Federal reserve notes so as to include a likeness of President Ronald Wilson Reagan, and for other purposes.
I guess the Freedom President trumps the Freedom Sec. of the Treasury.
H.RES.280 : Congratulating Roger Clemens of the New York Yankees for pitching 300 major league wins.
Somebody just lost my vote.
When the Representative from the fighting Texas Seventh wasn't renaming post offices, he co-sponsored a striking number of bills that contain the words "tax code" or "IRS" and "repeal" or "abolish". Also, from what I can tell Rep. Culberson would prefer gun laws to be somewhat more leinent. Like wear them on your hip leinent. But to be fair, there is one I liked:
H.J.RES.55 : Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that Federal district court judges be reconfirmed every ten years by the executive and legislative authorities of the State in which they serve.
Hey! That's reasonable!
Posted by stan at November 19, 2004 11:30 AM