What Your Government Did Today #4

1) Charles Schumere (D-NY) introduced a bill to temporarily increase tax credit on new qualified hybrid school buses
--Should increase number of hybrid buses, Congress is on a role lately. If they keep this up I may start thinking they're effective.

2) Hillary Clinton (D-NY) introduced a bill requiring Congress to present a plan to establish an oil trust to the government of Iraq
--In other words, to prove we're not going to steal all their oil.

3) Bill mentioned in issue #1 extending State Department powers, passed the Senate

4) A bill to establish a commission to investigate circumstances around the relocation, internment etc. of Latin Americans of Japanese decent from 1941 to 1948 and to suggest appropriate remedies etc.
--So, 60 years later we're going to "appropriately remedy" having deported and arrested people of Japanese decent. How do you remedy having taken someones freedom away 60 years ago? You can bribe them, it doesn't exactly make up for it.

5) A bill to force the director of FEMA to account for the storage (at tax-payer cost) of a huge surplus of manufactured housing (trailers), originally introduced in November of 2007 is finally scheduled for initial debate.
--So we paid for an additional 10 months of storage while waiting for Congress to agree to have a committee meet about whether or not it should be written into a formal bill which they can then vote on whether or not to take before Congress for a vote. Super bureaucratic powers...DELAY!