Posted on 03/01/2006 6:27:28 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Since "Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America.", I and others think it's a good idea to centralize what the goes on in the Senate (or House).
So if you see something happening on the Senate/House floor and you don't want to start a new thread to ask if anyone else just heard what you heard, you can leave a short note on who said what and about what and I'll try and find it the next day in THE RECORD. Or if you see a thread that pertains to the Senate, House, or pretty much any GOV'T agency please link your thread here.
If you have any suggestions for this thread please feel free to let me know.
Here's a few helpful links.
C-SPAN what a great thing. Where you can watch or listen live to most Government happenings.
C-SPAN 1 carries the HOUSE.
C-SPAN 2 carries the SENATE.
C-SPAN 3 (most places web only) carries a variety of committee meetings live or other past programming.
OR FEDNET has online feed also.
A great thing about our Government is they make it really easy for the public to research what the Politicians are doing and saying (on the floor anyway).
THOMAS where you can see a RECORD of what Congress is doing each day. You can also search/read a verbatim text of what each Congressmen/women or Senator has said on the floor or submitted 'for the record.' [This is where the real juicy stuff can be found.]
Also found at Thomas are Monthly Calendars for the Senate Majority and Senate Minority
And Monthly Calendars for the House Majority and Roll Call Votes can be found here.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT (aka The Dept. of Defense)
Did you guys hear when Diane started her speech, she referred to the illegals..saying they came here LEGALLY...
Well...some may have with green cards, but have overstayed their time...and I BET, she overestimates the ones that "legally" came here.
I heard that. Also, I am gagging on all of these hard luck stories.
Now here's Reid with another immigrant story about his wife's father.
Frist did it also...we need to call their offices and tell them to STOP the sob stories..
BTW..I saw threads that were HAILING Frist...wanting HIM for POTUS, betcha they don't feel that way after this speech though.
So now they are voting on Frist's amendment asking for a report on border deaths. I am not sure what the purpose of that is. Maybe to make us feel sorry for these people. (In a way I do, but I still don't want them coming here.)
I wondered what kind of vote it was when the DEMS were voting AYE...I knew it couldn't be the one for Frist's so-called Border Control Bill...
Hi needed a nap, what's going on now?
I just got off the phone with my brother who lives in NC
He said there is only one INS office to get immigration documents from in all of North Carolina
Is that true?
Indiana only has 6 INS agents from what I have heard. Can't speak to North Carolina.
Not much has been going on...just Senators loving to hear themselves talk...and telling sob stories about illegals that are SO grateful to be here.
BTW...Dorgan is up now, purposely LYING about what President Bush has suggested...
He is saying that Bush wants to form a "guest worker program" above and beyond the 20 million illegals that are here...
NO, Dorgan, Bush is saying that the ones that are HERE can go back to their country and then apply for the guest worker program..
Dorgan is saying it defies common sense...well, of course it does...but lies and distortions usually DO!!!
LOL, thanks for the update. I swear all this is enough to make me want to quit being political again. It would be so easy to go with the right on this, but I just can't.
NO!! Don't go to far right....you would have to wave at me.
I am not RIGHT...but, I am not happy with all of the illegals either..
Perhaps if you lived in Texas, you might feel a little less "left" than you do now.
I know that I would---because when I lived in Colorado, years ago---and then moved to Texas...it was like moving to a different country.
Inohoffe just showed a picture of the school with the mexican flag and the upside down us flag
I am SO GLAD that Inhofe is going to have an amendment making English "the official language of America"...
I can't believe we have to do that---I am just curious WHO would vote against it, though.
If only I would never have to hear "works hard and plays by the rules" again.
We may have to make that a drinking phrase! (Shaking Head).
Its called the "immersion method"...and from what I hear, it is the ONLY method that truly works...
If those students are FORCED to sit in classed where only English is spoken, they will HAVE to learn it.
When I took French, my teachers only spoke French to us, and so we HAD to study it find out what they were saying.
It is kind of like quitting smoking..the ONLY way that works is to quit----it is awful for a while...but it does work.
Just like unwanted pregnancy, AIDS, STDS...only way to be SURE you are safe is abstinence...nothing wrong with abstinence.....my generation may have been the last one---but it was ASSUMED that you remained a virgin until marriage..and anyone who slept around was considered a ______.
I know I am probably mixing apples and oranges here...but, it seems like the simple answers are most often the most effective...and CHEAPER.
Mixing apples and oranges or not, I understand what you are saying. In the old days I know that the parents rarely mastered English, but their children did and that helped.
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