[Dog Gone]

Why do I get the feeling you aren't totally joking.

Probably because I'm not.

Trivia question: Who was the only US Representative to vote against giving Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts cartoon, the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously?

(I probably asked this on the wrong thread...)

[Mr. Mojo]

RP has voted all by his lonesome on innumerable occasions.

....and that's why he's Dr. No.

[Howlin]

Him?

[supercat]

Trivia question: Who was the only US Representative to vote against giving Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts cartoon, the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously?

What part of Article I Section 8 gives Congress the authority to expend government funds to award such posthumous medals? Even given the most stretchy expansion of the elastic clause, I don't see it. To be sure, if Congress decided to discuss the issue 'off the clock', and fund such a medal entirely through private donations, there wouldn't be anything unconstutional about that, but I don't think that's what they were trying to do.

I'll admit, though, that what I really would have liked would have been for Ron Paul to push for extended discussion of the medal, since Congress probably spent less on the medal than it would normally spend during the time they discussed it. Too bad Congress can't spend more of its time on such things.