Our tax dollars at work

Hey T_O_B....when you are really bored some day go and read some case law. Some of those will really get you fired up! Some are head scratches, and other's you just want to scream WTH! lol

 
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zoogies said:
Jesus Christ people.

Just because one House committee is doing an investigation on steroids that is of extremely high interest to the national public DOES NOT MEAN that that is all Congress is doing!

When the steroids story wasn't around, what did you think Congress was doing? Nothing?

The steroids story is a big one, no doubt. It involves the HUGE professional sports industry, and at its center a highly successful player who's been accused of cheating. The public is obviously generating big interest, and the news wires are catering to it.

But do you honestly think Congress has ground to a halt in all other affairs? Honestly?

From congress.org:

Also Coming Up in Congress

* Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, and before the Senate Banking Committee Thursday

* House and Senate Budget Committees meet to discuss the FY09 budget resolution

* House and Senate Armed Services Committees will hold hearings on the Pentagon's budget request

* House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Tuesday on White House emails

* The Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday concerning immigration enforcement and plans for building a virtual fence along the Southwest border
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Federal Reserve, budget, defense proposals, reform, border security. Yes, clearly all they're thinking about is Clemens.

Some other things they're doing:

worrying about the environment

worrying about corporate tax breaks for oil companies

worrying about foreign aid

worrying about the country's economy

And here are some votes that have occured recently:

Key Votes - congress.org.

In fact, if you watch CSPAN/CSPAN2, you can actually see what Congress is doing in session.

But how soon they've forgotten everything else that's going on, right? No, how soon we've forgotten that Congress does things other than what we hear about Sports Illustrated, or even regular news.

Getting their panties in a bunch? It's the law, and lying under oath is a serious, serious offense. Or would you rather our own government not hold people up to task when they're lied to? Hypocrisy isn't even an issue here, they're upholding the law. If you'd rather the government not uphold the law...

I'm speechless.
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Its more that there was hearings about baseball at all. Why congress thinks it needs to be doing ANYTHING with sports is beyond me. The 'lying' is going to be based on HGH and not steroids, and HGH, while a banned substance in sports, is a legal product. And the whole basis of it is a "he said he said" thing.

And while there may be other things happening in congress, these congressmen would be better serving the tax payers by leaving baseball to baseball, and focusing on the things are are really important.

 
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