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I've heard it said that you should be willing to give up freedom for safety. What this seems to have come to mean is that you should continue to give up more and more and more freedom, and we will claim we are keeping you safe.
Sadly as a general rule it seems everyone expects the federal government to solve all problems. This is a bad approach. First there are many issues that are never going to be 100% solved because people are involved. And the further away from the problem you work to solve it, the more generic your approach needs to be (or if not generic then it suits a particular set of underlying facts but not all). For instance, increase gun regulations and take away more gun freedoms. It is an actual freedom in the United States Constitution. Because there are deaths, we regulate guns more strictly and continue to call for more restrictions. However in places where they have restricted guns more, they did not see a corresponding drop in deaths. I've heard there are less gun deaths. True but not less deaths. So the objection seems to be with how they are being killed. I personally object to being killed with a claw hammer, but I don't want to restrict there access. Limiting guns doesn't solve the problem because the people killing others do not care if they are breaking the law.
How the greatest country in the world and all through history could be led by these idiots is amazing. It is hard work solving your own problems and taking personal responsibility. However failing to do so and expecting that someone else will, means you are likely to get poorer and poorer results over time. We have become a nation of overwhelming laws and regulations. We need people with people to read/interpret and attempt to keep us from violating laws daily. We regulate everything, including which way the door between dining an the kitchen may swing. (FYI The federal government deems one direction and some state/city governments deem the other. So there is no winning on this one.) Honestly a majority of the laws do not even need to exist. We've taken it down to the hair on an ant, but it needed be defined that focused. For instance, instituting a no cell phone use while driving. That was completely and utterly unnecessary. There are already laws against distracted driving. I get that cell phone use being a violation makes it easier to enforce, less work to show you were distracted. I'm really not interested in shifting more power to any government. If it is already there but impossible to enforce, then it either doesn't need to be there or needs to be modified. And by impossible, I mean over time it has never been enforced.
Since federal law is so large, and they fail to write all their bills straightforward, it takes more time to review them. It also generally means longer reviews. So many federal bills will be multiple parts. I try to keep similar areas all grouped, but to be honest there are times this becomes more difficult as a single bill will talk about X, then move on only to later throw X back into the bill again and again. I do my best to review, let it sit, reread/rewrite before posting. I do tell you how many pages each bill is and the actual number for the bill so that you too can look up the actual bill.
During a legislative session there are easily over 2,000 bills entered in each house of Congress. I do my best to review those that are getting more press coverage since I find the coverage abhorrent at best. However there are times when the bill gets reviewed more and it may create modifications to sections already reviewed. If you hear of a bill you are interested in knowing more about send me an email and I'll see if I can't look at it.
Most Recently Updated Federal Subtopic
The following section summarizes the most recently updated subtopic of Federal. The subtopic was last updated on 2025-06-04. To see all of the published information for the subtopic, click the subtopic heading.
One Big Beautiful Bill
In this subtopic I plan to breakdown the current One Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House and now is in the Senate. This will be subject to change should the bill move forward modified. I'm trying to focus on taxes and health care, but don't want to neglect the massive spending.
The Most Recent Blogs
J.B. Williams, J.D. has published 2 blogs for this subtopic. The 2 most recent blogs are summarized here.2025-06-04 Committee on Agriculture
This portion focuses on the changes to the SNAP and other agriculture changes.
2025-05-28 One Big Beautiful Bill Taxes
It is definitely big at 1,118 pages long.
Other Subtopics For Federal
| Blog Date | Blogs | Subtopic Name | Subtopic Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-18 | Discrimination | iscrimination in COVID-19 treatment/vaccination status has to stop. | |
| 2024-01-10 | Transparency COVID19 Spending | Requiring audits concerning funds spent on COVID-19 relief. | |
| 2024-01-04 | Mask Mandates | It prohibits using Federal funds to impose mask mandates outside of healthcare settings. | |
| 2023-12-04 | No Vaccine Mandates 2023 | These bills would prevent mandates concerning COVID19 vaccines. Multiple variants have been proposed. | |
| 2023-11-06 | No Vaccine Passports | This bill provides a background summary into the COVID-19 response. Providing a reason for having a no vaccine passport act. | |
| 2023-10-25 | COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking | Any tracking for vaccination purposes for COVID-19 or any known respiratory virus is insane. The bills I have reviewed so far all hold that such tracking/passports should not exist. First, this is taking your personal medical information and placing it somewhere that so many would be able to view it. Never be comfortable with that because things are always a slippery slope. Second, if the US starts tracking/passports, then other countries will always think it is a good idea. And just because other countries, namely Canada and Europe, did it, that doesn't make it a good idea. | |
| 2023-10-04 | Continuing Appropriations | This bill spends entirely too much money in too short a time in what I am certain would be claimed to be necessary spending. | |
| 2023-09-20 | Voting Bills | Sadly, all that I keep seeing is the Federal government attempting to spend money to control voting. If they gave money to states to support Federal election, fine. But it's all about their control. | |
| 2023-05-05 | Ukraine based legislation | I will be posting about legislation that is in the works, or passed, dealing with Ukraine. We've sent money, sent military items, and continue to want to assist yet claim we are not directly involved. The price of this war has gotten very steep for the US indeed and will likely only get worse. While I wish it were not happening the entire debate and serious consideration of Ukraine becoming part of NATO is the very reason the war there is occurring. This would be no different that Russia joining with Cuba to "protect" them. Anything right near or on any of a NATO countries borders would be seen as too close for comfort. | |
| 2023-04-11 | Ending Emergency Declaration | This resolution is meant to end the National Emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020. | |
| 2023-04-02 | Fraud on Taxpayers | Increased limits to $1 million Modification in naming conventions, perhaps meant to make it seem less like fraud. False seems less harsh sounding but what is being done is still harsh on the taxpayers. | |
| 2022-11-06 | Build Back Better 2021 | Shortly after passing the House, Congress went on break and this bill appeared to die. Here is hoping it remains dead. Sadly it was brought back, renamed the Inflation Reduction Act, tweaked a little and passed. It did not reduce inflation - anyone with a brain knew it would not. And now the Congressional Budget Office has said it actually increased inflation. But wait because the spending under this bill is on-going. | |
| 2022-05-04 | Freedom to Vote 2021 | John R. Lewis Act. While I understand the Federal Government's duty to ensure that it's citizen can vote freely, the extensive rules being proposed will force one of two actions. Either the state will 100% follow the federal guidelines and have none of their own, possibly to the detriment of it's citizens. Or the state will have one set of rules for federal voting and another set of rules for state voting. There by creating issues of federal funding to a state and/or confusion from it's citizens regarding rules for voting. | |
| 2022-05-03 | Synthetic Opioids 2021 | Extension of deadline for report on opioid trafficking. | |
| 2022-04-29 | Invest in America 2021 | Expanding infrastructure and including the federal government in state decisions. |
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