The House voted against removing funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, but Sen. Harry Reid is doing his best to get the Senate to kill the project in his home state. Together with President Obama, Reid is working to withdraw funding, claiming, wrongly, that the project is scientifically unsound. For some reason they believe it’s safer to keep used nuclear fuel stored at 104 facilities around the country within 75 miles of 161 million Americans than it would be to bury it 2,000 feet below a mountain in the middle of the desert.
The government moved one step closer toward dictating private sector pay with passage of a House bill to give shareholders and the government more say in establishing executive compensation in public companies. The Senate never picked up previous similar measures, but in an era of growing socialist tendencies, that is little comfort.
In the spirit of keeping America from drifting toward the monarchy that President Obama seems to want, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) sponsored H.R. 3226, the Czar Accountability and Reform Act. This bill would bar the use of appropriated funds to pay expenses or salaries of “members of task forces, councils, or similar offices established by the president and headed by a person appointed inappropriately to such a post without Senate advice and consent.” The bill stands little chance of passing, but it demonstrates that people are taking notice of the ongoing executive power grab.
