Recently, I found this video that, albeit one sided and I hope, overly dramatic, is on the right track.

As promised, I’m going to update this a little bit with the Senate’s version of the bill that can be found here, Senate Bill 3590. (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590AS/pdf/BILLS-111hr3590AS.pdf)  I’ve also, just tonight, stumbled upon what appears to be another pretty good place to keep track of bills and legislation here. (http://www.opencongress.org/ )  I have not looked around too much on this site, but at first glance it looks pretty decent.

Looking briefly at the two versions of the bills and from what I’ve heard…  they are a mistake for this country.  The backroom deals that were made to get the magic 60 votes needed to take a final vote in the Senate, were, I believe, illegal.  Even if the majority of people thought that this was a good idea, this is not the way to go about getting the laws changed to reflect that. 

Well, can you say bigger and bigger government and intrusion into your life???  I can, HR3962_ObamaCare.

Click on HR3962_ObamaCare and take a look at the nearly 2000 page version of the bill that passed the House of Representatives on Saturday, 11-7-2009.  I’ll update it as newer versions become available, but nothing I have (or you have for that matter) will be current….  (this version was obtained from http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf )
Hope you have a pot of gold buried in the back yard… your kids are going to need it….  now where’s your back yard?

Do you like charts??  This is an organizational chart for the original version of this bill…  Now I know that whoever made this chart made it intentionally hard to understand….  but read that 2000 page bill and come up with a better one.

Organization?

Voting Records:

Latham                    Nay

Loebsack                Aye

Braley                     Aye

Boswell                   Aye

King                         Nay

Our Congress has done us a great disservice…  again.

Last Friday afternoon, when everyone was worried about Michael Jackson’s death, Iowa’s 5 Congressional Representatives voted right down party lines to eventually pass the American Clean Energy and Security Bill (H.R. 2454).  The break down is like this:

Bruce Braley D    Aye

David Loebsack D    Aye

Leonard Boswell D    Aye

Tom Latham R    Noe

Steve King R    Noe

The best place I’ve found to track the travesty that is taking place in D.C. is at GovTrack.us GovTrack will allow you to follow specific representatives and/or bills and sends you emails about what is going on.

I urge you to do some research on the Cap & Trade Bill (American Clean Energy and Security Act) that the House passed last week and help to educate your friends and family on what exactly this is…  a huge transfer of power as well as a huge tax on everyone.  I highly doubt that any of our representatives read this bill in it’s entirety…  there was a 300 page amendment added to the bill at 3 am the day of the vote…  That right there should be reason enough to boot our representatives out of a job…  that just pisses me off…  we send these people to D.C. to do a job, to represent us, to make a good faith effort to do what we the will of the people want…  and they can’t even read the bill that they are voting on??

Contact your Senator by every means possible and tell them that this is not a good idea…  that we will remember, and we will find replacements when and if needed when the time comes. The Senate will now take this bill up, tear it apart, change it (for better or worse), and most likely eventually vote on it.  Contact these guys and tell them you don’t want it:

Senator Chuck Grassley R

Senator Tom Harkin D

Good Luck.

Laura’s first birthday was a hit!!!  Not too many people, but just right…  and she had a great time last Sunday.  Here are a few pictures.