[know.your.why]

This thing really hit home where my tax money is going (supposedly). Go take a look for yourself...

https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr5376/BILLS-117hr5376rh.pdf

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Jane Long]

Ping!

[RebelTXRose]

lol

[Gay State Conservative]

We'll have to pass it in order to see what's in it.

[GOPJ]

The 2nd hit is this: (2) $4,000,000,000 for, on a determination by the Secretary that hazardous fuels within the wildland-urban interface have been effectively treated to prevent the spread of wildfire to at-risk communities, hazardous fuels reduction projects outside the wildland-urban interface that are—...

Are we talking about the mother of all slush funds?

[justlittleoleme]

Search for the word Petroleum.... On top of everything else they are doing to try and eliminate fossil fuels, it looks like they are going to try and tax it out of existence.

Page 367:

‘‘SEC. 136. METHANE FEE FROM PETROLEUM AND NATURAL
17 GAS SYSTEMS.
18 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall impose
19 and collect a fee from the owner or operator of each appli20
cable facility that is required to report methane emissions
21 pursuant to subpart W of part 98 of title 40, Code of Fed22
eral Regulations (or any successor regulations).
Page 1008

1 (b) FEDERAL OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT
2 ACT OF 1982.—The Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Man3
agement Act of 1982 is amended—
4 (1) in section 109 (30 U.S.C. 1719)—
5 (A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking
6 ‘‘$500’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,500’’;
7 (B) in subsection (b), by striking
8 ‘‘$5,000’’and inserting ‘‘$15,000’’;
9 (C) in subsection (c)(3), by striking
10 ‘‘$10,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$30,000’’;
11 (D) in subsection (d)(3), by striking
12 ‘‘$25,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$75,000’’;
13 (E) by redesignating existing subsections
14 (e) through (l) as (f) through (m), respectively;
15 and
16 (F) by adding at the end:
17 ‘‘(n) INFLATION ADJUSTMENT OF MAXIMUM PEN18
ALTIES.—
cable facility that is required to report methane emissions
21 pursuant to subpart W of part 98 of title 40, Code of Fed22
eral Regulations (or any successor regulations).

[Falconspeed]

Thank you for the link. Sad to read. The unethical work of some American leaders will be punished in the next life, forever. The unethical taking and spending of money is completely immoral.

[qaz123]

It would be nice to send a snippet to Maliotakis, once a week, and to her constituents. So they can read, for themselves, about how that disaster of a Representative, that rode President Trump’s coattails screwed them over and that NOTHING will come to their district. No roads will be fixed. No bridges repaired. NOTHING.

Hopefully, she would have the decency to resign but that ain’t gonna happen.

[angelsonmyside]

BTTT

[datura]

How many tags do we all get, and how much do we get paid when we fill them?

At some point - soon - the pushback will be epic.

[drSteve78]

Out of curiosity, since I’ll pretend to be a Democrati congressman and not even read the thing, does the word “IDIOT “ , singular or plural, show up anywhere?

[Sequoyah101]

I tried but it locked up both of my reader apps.

Plenty of memory and CPU but just locked up Adobe and Preview.