Clarice Feldman, regular columnist on Sunday at American Thinker, goes over the important items in the new budget.
Glad someone read through it, it actually has some good news.
A little tease. Other items are available in the link below.
�-� A ban on the Administration’s onerous “light bulb” standard;
�-� Provisions to protect Second Amendment rights;
�-� A provision to ensure Yucca Mountain maintains its viability for future use;
�-� Bans and limitations on federal agency conferences, travel, and awards; a provision to prohibit the Export-Import Bank and OPIC from blocking coal and other power-generation projects, which will increase exports of U.S. goods or services;
�-� A provision prohibiting funds for the Army Corps of Engineers to change the definition of “fill material,” which could have harmful effects on many U.S. industries;
�-� Provisions to stop the transfer or release of Guantanamo detainees into the U.S.; and
�-� A restriction on the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) from implementing regulations harmful to the livestock and poultry industry.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/you_can_keep_your_light_bulbs_congress_has_seen_the_light.html
When I lived in California and faced marginal electric rates of 36 to 48 cents per KWH, CFL bulbs were an important tool in fighting outrageous electric bills. (The upside down California energy rate structure made it cheaper to heat my whole house (with natural gas) than to heat one room with an electric heater.)
I now live in a state that does not have socialist-inspired energy rates.
I so totally agree! This whole light bulb thing is absolutely ridiculous.
Check out cato.org and downsizedc.org
These folk agree with us.
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Like all products, light bulb use should be based upon the consumer’s desires. If the CFL’s etc are really that much better, consumers will buy them instead of incandescents.
I use CFL’s and have been mostly happy – but I don’t want the government ordering me to buy them or prohibiting me from buying other bulbs.
Too much of our economy is no longer based on who has the better product–but on who has the most connections or the better lobbyist.
I’d support that as a constitutional amendment. It should be an offense deserving of removal from office to cast a yea or nay vote without having read the bill. I’d go further and say that it should be unconstitutional to vote on a bill with more than one topic in it. All laws should be considered individually on their own merits. If that takes too much time than maybe it isn’t important enough for the federal government to be involved in the first place.
The only problem with this bill and everyone since his election, it didn’t remove the idiots in charge. 1500+ pages and no one read it. If you don’t read it how can you vote on it? Perhaps that should be a requirement for voting on bills, if you don’t read it, you can’t vote on it.
I use stsndard light bulbs ( 4 for a $1.99 ) in my drop lights on the job.. We constsantly keep breaking them because of the rough service.. No problem , 50 Cents.. With Democrat bulbs, We will have to worry about murcury every time we break one..
Some of us with Sensory Integration Dysfunction have painful responses to ordinary fluorescent lights (and even to CFLs at times). This happens almost every time I go grocery shopping.
I hope that the Obama mandate on twisty bulbs is defeated. That would also cut down on future mercury pollution.
agreed
No matter how many points I agree with, I always have a problem with omnibus bills in general. Too much of our nation’s law is determined by what one team of legislators can sneak past the opposition and the public through brute force legislation.