[familyop]

I'm trying to look up the Bill info with no success at all.

If Paul, Schlafly and friends want the help of coalitions much larger than theirs on legislative issues like the one mentioned above, they should be responsible and thoughtful enough to include bill numbers and full bill texts. Such documents, as I understand it, belong to the federal government and are not copyright enforceable.

We cannot help with such efforts if we only see catchy slogans. The WorldNetDaily column and all other pieces I see against the so-called "New Freedom Initiative" have no information that I can find the Bill item with.

They will continue to lose at fighting Stalinist legislative tactics until we start getting the information we need. For now, the WND and other slogan-filled screeching has only succeeded in spreading propaganda that will stop many from voting in favor of the President in November.

Idjits!

[niki]

Federal amendment would cut funding for mental health screening initiatives

By Rhonda Robinson, Leader correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In an attempt to pull the power plug on the states’ ability to implement President Bush’s New Freedom Commission recommendations, Republican Congressman Ron Paul [Texas] is expected to offer an amendment that will prohibit funding for the creation or implementation of any new universal mental health screening programs to the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations bill, scheduled to be debated on the house floor today and Thursday. ...

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Bush’s New Freedom Commission was created via EO. The recommendations I assume are being implemented as Health and Human Services/Eduction regulations/policies, not via a bill in congress. That is why Ron Paul was trying to stop the money going to the implementations of these policies.

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The Paul amendment failed by recorded vote. Roll No. 438