[Coleus]

Online Freedom of Speech Act (H.R. 1606)

Free Speech Will Have to Wait

McCain attacks free political speech - - bloggers in danger

McCain's Shovel: Digging the Free Speech Grave

NJ LEGISLATURE - ID of interactive computer services & Internet service

New Jersey State Republican Leader Wants to restrict 1st Amendment Rights on the Internet

[La Enchiladita]

Thanks for the links, you two.

Question for anyone: When is the House "recess" referred to in this entry?

By: Robert B. Bluey
Posted 03/15/06
11:39 PM

(H.R. 1606) and will take up the matter after the House recess.

The Rules Committee was in a closed session until about 6:15pm. Constrained by a Democratic fundraising dinner and unable to come to a compromise on a rule for 1606 - it's been pulled until after the recess.

Keep in mind, friends - the root of the problem is this: Wertheimer, McCain, Shays, etc - the entire band of folks that hate your ability to speak - are threatening to "take down" (or try) any rule that does not let them offer their substitute (4900) on the floor.

That would be the same group of people that howled bloody murder when HR1606 - AFTER having gone through Committee, was brought to the floor under suspension. But when it's their bill - apparently bypassing the committee structure altogether is just fine.

[The Red Zone]

This bill has so many anti-Constitutional measures that it boggles the mind. Lobbying is a problem in Congress, granted, but the problem is not with the lobbyists, but Congress itself. The reason lobbyists are so pervasive is because the Congressmen and Senators they ply with cash, gifts and free trips can sneak any manner of spending boondoggles into the Federal budget.

The booze made me get drunk, honest!