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After President Trump’s State of the Union Address, there seems to have emerged one common thread that is uniting the two parties. Both agree that the cost of prescription drugs is far too high in the United States. Trump mentioned it in his speech, and the theme has been invoked in countless post-speech interviews by elected Democrats. America spends far more per capita on healthcare than other developed nations, and yet drug prices here dwarf those in other countries. In one analysis carried out by Reuters, researchers found that top-selling drugs in the U.S. cost roughly triple what their counterparts...

H.R. 3534, a bill to give our land away to the U.N., passed by a narrow margin. On July 30, 2010, 207 Democrats and two Republicans voted in favor of the bill, and 39 Democrats and 154 Republicans voted against it. Among many things, this bill exemplifies that bipartisan support in Among Congress only exists with the Republicans. The other news is that it raises fuel taxes an estimated 5 cents per gallon on gasoline and diesel.

http://randysright.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/we-just-got-screwed-the-house-passed-the-clear-act-hr-3534-209-193-july-30-2010/ don’t recall hearing anything about this in the news over the summer: Randy’s Right http://gulagbound.com/5833/us-house-puts-oceans-coasts-under-un-senate-vote-will-seal-the-deal by Carmen Reynolds, Paul McKain and Karen Schoen originally published at Boogai.net on September 21, 2010 It’s too late; it’ll just have to be stopped in the Senate,” Tom, the young male answering the phone in U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio)Washington D.C. office, said about HR 3534 (CLEAR Act). This is the globalist bill designed to give away our land, oceans, adjacent land masses and Great Lakes to an international body, and makes us pay $900 million per year until 2040. HR 3534 is...

Piece by piece, America being given away “It’s too late; it’ll just have to be stopped in the Senate,” Tom, the young male answering the phone in U.S. Rep. John Boehner’s (R-Ohio)Washington D.C. office, said about HR 3534 (CLEAR Act). This is the globalist bill designed to give away our land, oceans, adjacent land masses and Great Lakes to an international body, and makes us pay $900 million per year until 2040. HR 3534 is a thinly disguised permanent roadblock to American energy which drives American companies out of the Gulf, delays future drilling, increases dependency on foreign oil, implements...

Pelosi's CLEAR Act adds billions in new taxes, a federal takeover of a state's authority to issue pertinent permits within their state, and builds a $500 million annually, slush fund for the Interior Secretary. That slush fund is provided by $22 billion in new taxes over ten years, which settles at $3 billion-per-year after the ten years. The vote is expected Friday. Pelosi has also refused to allow an independent, bipartisan investigation into the BP oil spill - and according to sources this move is to protect Obama.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 28 - The CLEAR Act is being sold as a response to the Gulf oil spill crisis, yet the bill itself stretches far beyond addressing this tragedy to include page after page of provisions that are unrelated to the oil spill, will kill American jobs, and are premature by acting before Congress has the full facts from the numerous ongoing investigations into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The Obama Moratorium on deepwater drilling has already cost tens of thousands of jobs and this bill will eliminate even more American energy jobs by making it harder and...

The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster.  The Natural Resources Committee unanimously passed the amendment in committee markup July 14 offered by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) that would establish a bipartisan, independent, National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Spill Prevention. Unlike the commission set up by President Obama -- packed only with...

Using a Sinclair service station as a backdrop, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch unveiled a bill Thursday aimed at increasing domestic oil production while reducing gas prices at the pump. "Whether you're a mother driving your daughter to ballet, a farmer working the soil on your tractor, a small business that makes deliveries or one that relies on deliveries, or even a senator making a long commute every day, we have all been feeling the sting of high gas prices," Hatch, R-Utah, said during a news conference. Hatch plans to introduce his bill, titled "Gas Price Reduction Through Increased Refining...

THE CLEAR ACT OF 2005 AND THE MINUTEMEN -- (House of Representatives - April 28, 2005) [Page: H2721] ---    The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Norwood) is recognized for 5 minutes.    Mr. NORWOOD. Madam Speaker, this month the Minuteman Project has accomplished with just a few hundred citizen volunteers what the Federal Government has been unable to do and actually told us was impossible to do, and that is stopping illegal immigrants crossing our borders.    In the process of focusing the Nation's attention on the insecurity of our borders,...

Does anyone here have any updated info on the (CLEAR) Clear Law Enforcement for Alien Removal Act that was introduced by Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) awhile back....I searched it here and didn't find much???

Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act of 2003 or the CLEAR Act of 2003 - States that: (1) State and local law enforcement personnel are fully authorized to investigate, apprehend, or remove aliens in the United States (including interstate transportation of such aliens to detention centers) in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws; and (2) a State that does not have a statute permitting enforcement of Federal immigration laws within two years of enactment of this Act shall not receive certain Federal incarceration assistance. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to illegal aliens to: (1) establish...

Washington, DC, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The world's largest group of law enforcement executives said Wednesday it opposes legislation to compel police enforcement of immigration laws. The International Association of Chiefs of Police said it opposes the Clear Law Enforcement For Criminal Alien Removal Act, and urged "Congress to proceed with caution when considering measures that would compel local and state law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws."

Enforcing immigration law a duty under bill http://www.freep.com/news/metro/clear1_20040601.htm

For the cost of incarcerating Fabian Gomez-Montalvo, Oregon ought to send somebody the bill. It would not be for a small amount. The young man from Mexico, 20 years old and illegally in this country, was sentenced last week to nearly 27 years in prison. This was after he had pleaded guilty to a series of felonies stemming from five break-ins at Albany homes, including two cases in which he molested women who woke up to find them in their beds.The Department of Correction says it costs $64.25 a day to keep an inmate in prison. At that rate, assuming...

<p>Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told lawmakers yesterday that he was open to the controversial idea of using state and local police officers to help enforce the nation's immigration laws.</p> <p>During a Senate hearing, several lawmakers raised the issue of additional resources for immigration enforcement, especially in light of the proposal from President Bush for a guest-worker program.</p>

Prosecutors today hauled three men into federal court suspected in a horrific case of sexual assault involving a 13 year old girl.Prosecutors are going after severe sentences in this case and can take it federal because of pictures that investigators say proves the men raped a 13 year old girl.All three suspects face federal charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. They face a mandatory sentence of at least 15 years and possibly up to 30 years in federal prison.Detectives learned of the rape of the 13 year old girl after one of the suspects dropped off film to be...

Man convicted of operating 'drug house' By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune staff writer A federal jury convicted a Casper man last week for owning a building where he knew methamphetamine was distributed. John Spencer Hurt, 47, was indicted on Feb. 26, 2003, on one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of knowingly making the building at 948 N. Park St. available for storing, distributing or using methamphetamine, according to the indictment. The indictment occurred as a result of the investigation and prosecution of five other methamphetamine dealers, said Assistant District Attorney Ken Marken, who helped prosecute the case...

Some of the most violent criminals at large today are illegal aliens. Yet in cities where the crime these aliens commit is highest, the police cannot use the most obvious tool to apprehend them: their immigration status. In Los Angeles, for example, dozens of members of a ruthless Salvadoran prison gang have sneaked back into town after having been deported for such crimes as murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and drug trafficking. Police officers know who they are and know that their mere presence in the country is a felony. Yet should a cop arrest an illegal gangbanger for...

Tray Owen was a vivacious, fiesty bighearted woman--but one who was on a downward spiral as she struggled with addiction and a failed relationship, family members said.As the 32 year-old house cleaner's personal life suffered, she distanced herself from her family, and some siblings said they hadn't seen her in years.Her brother, David Owen, was the closest to her. He said yesterday that he last saw his sister about four weeks ago when he ran into her on Murfreesboro Pike. When he saw her, he said, he didn't realize she was in the late stages of pregnancy.The next time he...

Good afternoon. My name is John M. Morganelli and I am the elected District Attorney in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. I have served as District Attorney for twelve (12) years and I am a past President of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, a statewide Association of prosecutors in Pennsylvania. On June 25, 2003 there occurred in Northampton County a ceremony that is often repeated in courthouses throughout the United States. A number of individuals from all parts of the world participated in a naturalization ceremony that resulted in new citizens of the United States of America. I had the pleasure of...