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- CA lawmakers try slapping $1B annual tax on internet sales
- House rejects proposal to raise debt ceiling
- Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure
- Rep. Weiner Finds Someone Abusing His Twitter
- WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk
- Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid
- Some Immigrants Turn to Tea Party
| CA lawmakers try slapping $1B annual tax on internet sales Posted: 01 Jun 2011 01:26 PM PDT From NBC LA The state of California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law. Assemblyman Charles Calderon, a Democrat from Whittier, says his legislation doesn’t impose a new sales tax, but extends one that California should already have been enforcing. AB155 passed, 47-16, with the support of one GOP lawmaker Tuesday. It now heads to the Senate. Other Republicans rejected the bill because they said it would invite lawsuits, drive business out of California, and get the state entangled in the messy task of regulating the Internet. To read more, visit: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/Amazon-Tax-Bill-Passes-State-122907299.html |
| House rejects proposal to raise debt ceiling Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:41 AM PDT By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, The Washingtonpost.com With an August deadline looming, the House overwhelmingly refused Tuesday to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, setting the stage for a long, sweaty summer of haggling over the shape of the largest debt-reduction package in at least two decades. Not a single GOP lawmaker voted for the measure to raise the limit on the national debt from $14.3 trillion to $16.7 trillion — a sum sufficient to cover the government's bills through the end of next year. Republican leaders said their troops would reject any increase without a plan to sharply curtail spending and, thus, future borrowing. "Tonight's vote illustrates that there is no support in the People's House for a debt limit increase without real spending cuts and binding budget process reforms," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a statement, adding: "The families and business owners throughout the country want Washington to begin to live within its means and stop maxing out the credit card." Polls show that a higher debt limit is extremely unpopular with a large majority of voters, which has left Democrats leery of calling for an increase. On Tuesday, as the House voted 318 to 97 against raising the limit, nearly half of the chamber's Democrats sided with the Republicans. In doing so, they ignored a long-standing request from the Obama administration to boost the limit before plunging into a complex and politically difficult battle over the size of the federal budget. "I don't intend to advise our members to subject themselves to a 30-second political ad and attack," House Minority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said hours before the vote, noting that GOP leaders offered the bill with the intention of letting their party's members vote against it. Seven Democrats voted "present" to protest the manner in which the Republican majority called up the bill. Hoyer and other Democrats accused House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) of toying with the issue and running the risk that the "no" vote could roil financial markets. Bond traders, however, appeared to pay little attention to a move that many observers on Wall Street and in Washington dismissed as political theater. To read more, visit: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/house-rejects-proposal-to-raise-debt-ceiling/2011/05/31/AGVISkFH_story.html |
| Florida governor signs welfare drug-screen measure Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT By the CNN Wire Staff, CNN.com (CNN) — Saying it is “unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday signed legislation requiring adults applying for welfare assistance to undergo drug screening. “It’s the right thing for taxpayers,” Scott said after signing the measure. “It’s the right thing for citizens of this state that need public assistance. We don’t want to waste tax dollars. And also, we want to give people an incentive to not use drugs.” Under the law, which takes effect on July 1, the Florida Department of Children and Family Services will be required to conduct the drug tests on adults applying to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The aid recipients would be responsible for the cost of the screening, which they would recoup in their assistance if they qualify. Those who fail the required drug testing may designate another individual to receive the benefits on behalf of their children. Shortly after the bill was signed, five Democrats from the state’s congressional delegation issued a joint statement attacking the legislation, one calling it “downright unconstitutional.” “Governor Scott’s new drug testing law is not only an affront to families in need and detrimental to our nation’s ongoing economic recovery, it is downright unconstitutional,” said Rep. Alcee Hastings. “If Governor Scott wants to drug test recipients of TANF benefits, where does he draw the line? Are families receiving Medicaid, state emergency relief, or educational grants and loans next?” Rep. Corrine Brown said the tests “represent an extreme and illegal invasion of personal privacy.” To read more, visit: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/06/01/florida.welfare.drug.testing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |
| Rep. Weiner Finds Someone Abusing His Twitter Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:33 AM PDT By: Nancy Scola,TechPresident.com New York City Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner is a colorful tweeter (see his creative use of extra-lengthy hashtags to capture his thought of the moment) — but not that colorful. On Saturday night, Weiner’s Twitter account was used to tweet a photograph of a man in underpants to a college student, and the woman targeted says that she’s been harassed on Twitter before by the man she supposes to the be the guilty party. Weiner is considering legal action, report Politico’s Jake Sherman and Jonathan Allen: Dave Arnold, a spokesman for Weiner, said the Congressman's staff is "loathe to treat" this incident as more than a prank "but we are relying on professional advice." "At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject," Weiner said in a statement emailed to POLITICO by his office. "I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work." Still, the congressman is keeping his trademark sense of humor about it. His Facebook account was also reportedly accessed, and, he notes, his digital video recorder ate his copy of a weekend hockey game. He tweeted, “Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next? #TheToasterIsVeryLoyal.” To read more, visit: http://techpresident.com/short-post/rep-weiner-finds-someone-abusing-his-twitter |
| WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:29 AM PDT By Danielle Dellorto, CNN.com (CNN) — Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same “carcinogenic hazard” category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established. A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, made the decision after reviewing peer-reviewed studies on cell phone safety. The team found enough evidence to categorize personal exposure as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” What that means is they found some evidence of increase in glioma and acoustic neuroma brain cancer for mobile phone users, but have not been able to draw conclusions for other types of cancers. “The biggest problem we have is that we know most environmental factors take several decades of exposure before we really see the consequences,” said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The type of radiation coming out of a cell phone is called non-ionizing. It is not like an X-ray, but more like a very low-powered microwave oven. To read more, visit: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html |
| Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:25 AM PDT By Alexander Bolton, TheHill.com Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he is considering running for president after frustrated conservative activists have pleaded with him to run. DeMint told The Hill that he has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question out of respect for his supporters across the country. The Tea Party favorite, who had indicated he was not going to run in 2012, would significantly shake up the race if he were to jump in. The second-term senator would have the inside track to win South Carolina, a key early state in the nomination process. Since 1980, every Republican who has triumphed in the Palmetto State has gone on to capture the GOP presidential nomination. Some conservative activists compare DeMint to former Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and former President Reagan, predicting he could quickly unify social and fiscal conservatives. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/164095-sen-demint-mulls-2012-bid-for-the-white-house |
| Some Immigrants Turn to Tea Party Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:21 AM PDT By Janie Lorber, Rollcall.com Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, an immigrant from Ecuador who once dreamed of becoming her country's president, has found an unlikely home in the tea party movement. When she launched her campaign for county school board last week at Brion's Grille in Fairfax, Va., she was not alone — flanked by immigrants from Europe, Asia and Latin America who have joined tea party groups in the face of unrelenting criticism that the movement is isolationist and anti-immigrant. Mancheno-Smoak, who started attending tea party meetings in February, is one of several immigrants running for local office in Virginia under the tea party banner. Tito Muñoz, a Colombian immigrant who owns a construction company and won the nickname "Tito the Builder" as a vocal supporter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008, is running for Virginia Senate. Jo-Ann Chase, a Puerto Rican, says she is the first Latina candidate for a state House seat. In Northern Virginia, many of the immigrants who have gravitated to the tea party have roots in socialist countries and are intensely afraid that the U.S. is headed down the same path. They embrace the tea party's small government, socially conservative messages and say the only immigration they are for is the legal kind. They don't bat an eye when it comes to the movement's tough anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric. Muñoz hosts a one-hour Spanish language radio show called "America Eres Tu" broadcast Saturday afternoons on WURA 920 AM out of a trailer in Dumfries, Va. He prints copies of the Constitution in Spanish and answers questions about U.S. politics from those who are new to the country. To read more, visit: http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_131/-206085-1.html |
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