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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. ...

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.

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

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. ...

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.

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

Thank you. I'll dig for the Bill details and publish those as soon as I find them. ...just arrived back from errands.

I think you're correct, BTW, in that an item in H.R.5006 simply provides funding for the Commission. If that's the case, then the "New Freedom Commission" must go. ...will dig, write it all up, and disseminate. If there is a program for mandatory mental evaluations for all or a class, the Democrats will certainly have the weapon in their Campaign. We won't have our families controlled and made ill by a profession of misfits and weirdos. I have a few friends who are conservative psychiatrists and psychologists. They agree with our assessment on what predominates in their fields.

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. ...

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.

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

Thank you. I'll dig for the Bill details and publish those as soon as I find them. ...just arrived back from errands.