H.R. 1503 To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the...
WASHINGTON -- A Saturday vote on healthcare didn’t stop U.S. Rep. Bill Posey from hosting one of his biggest fundraisers of the year. It just meant the Rockledge Republican had to mingle with supporters over the Internet -- and skip...
WASHINGTON -- Since coming to Congress, U.S. Rep. Bill Posey has objected to the $4,700 pay raise that rank-and-file members of the U.S. House received between 2008 and 2009. On Friday, the Rockledge Republican took his protest one step further...
Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) and Bill Posey (FL-15) introduced legislation to help minimize the impact of the impending human spaceflight gap on Central Florida's economy by encouraging the development of the commercial spaceflight industry.
An op-ed in the Washington Examiner by three Republican House freshman, including Pete Olson of Texas and Bill Posey of Florida, stresses the importance of properly funding NASA and increasing its budget even though it might seem at odds with their philosophy of limited government. “We do not take spending $3 billion lightly, but [...]
Yesterday the two representatives from Florida’s Space Coast, Suzanne Kosmas and Bill Posey, introduced HR 3853, “Commercial Space Transportation Cooperative Research and Development Centers of Excellence Act of 2009″. The bill would authorize NASA to make grants to two more universities (with at least one of which within 100 miles of “an active commercial [...]
Stoopidest congressional graphic du jour. Can you spot the GOP closet case? Only 20% of Americans now self-identify as Republicans. And those who do, are split between delusional extremists (teabaggers) and the old fashioned mainstream conservatives. What's happening in NY-23, where a deadly fight between teabagger Doug Hoffman and mainstream conservative Dede Scozzafava, is virtually guaranteeing...
Kosmas and Posey Introduce Legislation to Encourage Commercial Spaceflight Industry "Today, Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas (FL-24) and Congressman Bill Posey (FL-15) introduced legislation to help minimize the impact of the impending human spaceflight gap on Central Florida's economy by encouraging the...
WASHINGTON -- The commercial space industry could be heading to college – partly on NASA’s dime – under legislation that was introduced today by U.S. Reps. Suzanne Kosmas, D-New Smyrna Beach, and Bill Posey, R-Rockledge. The measure would allow NASA...
House Resolution 554 This bill would require Internet posting of all non-emergency bills for 72 hours before the final vote. Speaker Pelosi is blocking it from the House floor. The way to get around her block is what's called a "Discharge Petition". It discharges the bill or petition to the floor for an immediate vote. The names of members who have already signed the Discharge Petition are...
Indiana bigot Mike Pence blew the whistle on this one. A couple weeks ago we looked at how the Republican obsession with openly gay people and the Republican obsession with "czars" was degenerating into a jihad against Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Bigot extraordinaire Steve King of Iowa wrote a...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bill Posey told the White House in a floor speech Thursday that it needs to keep its "promise" to close the flight gap between the space shuttle, due to retire in 2010 or 2011, and the...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bill Posey told the White House in a floor speech Thursday that it needs to keep its "promise" to close the flight gap between the space shuttle, due to retire in 2010 or 2011, and the...
Rooney is well to the right of Czar Nicholas II After Tim Mahoney, the corrupt Republican turned-quasi-Democrat who Rahm Emanuel had recruited 2 years earlier for Mark Foley's congressional seat was exposed as another sexual predator, reactionary Republican Tom Rooney took the seat (in 2008, an otherwise stellar year for Democrats). Since then Rooney has distinguished himself as the most extreme right-wing...
Four members of the House Financial Services Committee scheduled breakfast fundraisers for Wednesday morning before a committee hearing on proposed financial oversight reform, according to invitations obtained by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation . Reps. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.), Ed Royce (R-Calif.), and Travis Childers (D-Miss.) all had breakfast fundraisers to gobble up...
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