What is a piece of legislation that is currently being debated?
China Currency bill. It's about whether or not we should punish countries that artificially control their currency rates (IE China)
What bills are currently being debated in congress????
That may be because Congress has only recently come back into session after the holidays. Here are some political articles you may be able to use: Privacy Laws: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_o... Minimum Wage: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_o... Stem Cell Research: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070110/pl_n... Just type the topics into another newspaper site to get a second article and I'm SURE you'll find lots. Hope this helps.
What bills are currently being debated in Congress?
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My best guess is none of them; the ones likely to pass the Senate are unlikely to pass the House, and vice versa. The Republicans are trying to force Democrats to cave on family-based immigration by leveraging any relief for current Dreamers on the Democrats surrendering future family-based immigration more broadly (the Grassley bill makes immigration harder for almost everyone, both to get to the US initially and to stay in it once admitted), apparently on the calculation that Democrats will be hurt electorally if they do not deliver relief to Dreamers. If this gambit works, something like the Grassley bill (probably watered down somewhat from the draconian measure it is now) could possibly end up passing. If the Democrats stand firm to defend family-based immigration and immigration more generally, then nothing will pass.The Democrats should not cave on this issue. The main person who will be hurt politically if the Democrats stand firm, no bill is passed, and DACA expires, will be Chuck Schumer, who is not up for election this cycle and who will almost certainly weather the damage anyway. As much as the plight of the Dreamers tears at our heartstrings, giving relief today to (some fraction of) 1.8 million Dreamers is a poor exchange for giving away the right of untold millions of future potential Americans to immigrate, which is the Sophie’s choice the Republicans are trying to set up here. If Democrats take the deal, millions of hopeful legal immigrants will never be allowed to immigrate, and their US families will know exactly who to blame for that.The Democrats are better off rejecting the choice entirely, and focusing on messaging that the Republicans are responsible for setting up this situation in the first place.
Will the immigration (amnesty) bill bankrupt Social Security in 30 years? What do you think about it?
It is amnesty. There may be as many as 12 million illegals in the country. If the bill passes. They immediately become legal aliens. Being legal means they cannot be deported. They do not have to apply for citizenship. Most Americans want our borders to be secured. We want the government to stop the illegal immigration. The government does not enforce the laws we have now. Illegals don't obey the laws we have now. What make you think the bill will change anything? This immigration bill is obfuscation. Our elected officials won't secure the borders so they come up with a bill that sidetracks our main goals, which are secure the borders and stop illegal immigration.
What are some bills that are being debated in congress?
Turn on C span and you can see them work and decide for yourself what will happen if the bill passes or not. You could get into the health care reform bills that are currently being bantered about, but that is so complicated I doubt if you could get it all on one page.
No, because the bills (if written so that they'll stand up in court) do NOT protect any discrimination against LGBT. If written properly, they only protect the right of individuals, or privately owned businesses, to refuse to participate in religious ceremonies that violate their religious beliefs. Thus, for example, a Muslim baker could refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage on the grounds that gay sex is sinful in her religion. She could not refuse to rent a publicly available room for a meeting of the Log Cabin Republicans. The difference is that the marriage has religious connotations, a simple political meeting does not.So, to rephrase your question: Could an atheist refuse service to LGBT on the grounds that such service would violate her religious belief? Actually, yes. If the LGBT couple getting married (to continue the example) are getting married in a religious service, the atheist has the right to refuse to participate, and thus to refuse to bake the cake. The refusal is justified on her rejection of religion, but only if it is applied to all practicing persons.To reiterate, this depends on how the law is written. If it is structured so that LGBT can be denied any service at any time, solely because someone disapproves of them, it will be struck down. If it is written to provide a narrow protection involving rites and ceremonies of recognized religious connotation*, then they'll stand for atheist and religious alike.*No, Joe Chucklehead doesn't get to declare his trailer park a religious retreat and claim he's permitted to deny service to an LGBT couple.
I wrote an extensive post on the Winners & Losers of the current Senate passed US Immigration Reform 2013 bill (US Immigration Bill 2013 Summary - Winners & Losers and What is Changing). In general I support it because it addresses a vast number of the grievances of the current system being to heavily weighted to family instead of economic based immigration in other western countries. It addresses a lot of the issues around artificial work visa and green card caps causing a glut in the system and illogical criteria for immigrants to abide by. It provides for temporary visas for the agricultural and other labor intensive areas of the economy where a lot of the undocumented immigrants have gravitated to in past decades. It addresses the status of current undocumented immigrants and clears the large backlog of legal immigrants on waiting lists for the next stage of the immigration process.
Why do people keep calling this new Immigration Bill amnesty when it will take up to 12 years for citizenship?
No, I don't support the bill. Most Americans do not. They want something much more strict, and one that does more for border protection now. Congress has failed again. It is called amnesty because that is precisely what it is. Millions of people who have broken U.S. law have a way to receive amnesty (forgiveness) for breaking the law if they pay fines, etc. This will, obviously, only encourage scores of others to do the same. This also does not recognize the fact that most of the illegals have no interest in becoming citizens, and still consider themselves citizens of Mexico. This is borne out by the rallies where the Mexican flags are flying, and by the plans to colonize or re-capture parts of the southwest. They are hardly hiding their intentions to do so. For Mexico, they have no incentive to stop the illegals from coming to the U.S. because they will not do what is necessary to promote the growth of business and jobs in Mexico. It is much easier for the Mexican government to simply let the illegals live in the U.S. and send money back to Mexico to help their economy. For businesses hiring illegals, they are getting cheap labor--but they are breaking the law to do so. And, they should be punished. One of the biggest fallacies you will commonly see in this discussion is that the illegals are taking jobs Americans don't want. No. The truth is that they are being paid at wages Americans won't accept. And the businesses hiring the illegals are circumventing the law of supply and demand by hiring outside labor to do the jobs, which in turn brings down the salaries of labor. This is bad for the economy, despite claims made by Bush and the pro-amnesty crowd.
Do you think immigration is out of control?
yes http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/200705... "There's a simple reason the immigration bill being debated by the U.S. Senate is unpopular with votersthe general public doesn't believe it will reduce illegal immigration. And, in the minds of most voters, that's what immigration reform is all about. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 16% of American voters believe illegal immigration will decline if the Senate bill is passed. Seventy-four percent (74%) disagree. That figure includes 41% who believe the Senate bill will actually lead to an increase in illegal immigration. If voters had a chance to improve the legislation, 75% would "make changes to increase border security measures and reduce illegal immigration." Just 29% would" make it easier for illegal immigrants to stay in the country and eventually become citizens."