While I missed this during the madness of last week’s final exams, I should note that Senator Sam Brownback’s broadcast indecency bill passed with unanimous consent.
This bill will mandate a tenfold inrease for fines levied by the FCC for indecent content broadcast by networks.
This bill still needs to be reconciled with a harsher House bill [...]
Anyone have any idea as to why Senator Sam Brownback would be introducing so many bills about shoe duties?
Late last week, Brownback introduced a total of 17 bills to suspend temporarily the duties on different types of footwear.
Among the offerings: S. 2847, to “reduce temporarily the duty on certain footwear with open toes or heels,” [...]
So says The Hill:
Sen. Sam Brownback, a conservative Republican from Kansas, told The Hill that he would vote for the immigration overhaul as long as no amendments are approved that would significantly expand the number of immigrants coming into the country or reduce the level of enforcement.
“I think good work has been done here in [...]
After President Bush’s speech which sought to appease the more vicsious anti-immigrant wing of the GOP, it seems that Senator Sam Brownback is also looking to hedge his bets with the minuteman caucus and now supports the use of troops on the border with Mexico:
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., said he too supports “temporary” [...]
A dirty little secret of the republican party leadership is that many of them see Christian Conservatives as a distasteful, uneducated and uncouth constituency. The party leadership uses them during election season and then brushes them aside when it comes to making policy. The New York Times reports today that some Conservative Christian [...]
Even though the consensus in the state is Ken Canfield’s campaign for Governor is dead in the water, he bravely soldiered on and named a little known state legislator as his running mate:
[Kathe] Decker, 53, of Clay Center, has been the chairwoman of the House Education Committee for the past four years and chairwoman of [...]
According to Broadcasting and Cable online, Senator Sam Brownback’s broadcast indecency bill could make it to the Senate floor this session:
….a source close to the issue [stated] that the committee intended to mark up the bill May 18.
Like the House version, the Brownback bill would boost FCC fines dramatically. Unlike the House bill, however, it [...]
Seems Human Events Magazine doesn’t appreciate Senator Sam Brownback’s position on immigration:
The immigration debate within the Senate has severely damaged the presidential chances among conservatives of two key Republican senators: Sam Brownback (R.-Kan.) and John McCain (R.-Ariz.).
Over the past few years, Brownback had won considerable favor among conservatives for his support of religious freedom worldwide [...]