<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">'Nother thing . . </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Had the U.S. House of Representatives tabled the senate's "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act" of 2013, Senate Bill 744, instead of voting to shut down the government in October, we may not have the problems we are currently experiencing.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Senate Bill 744</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s744es/pdf/BILLS-113s744es.pdf">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s744es/pdf/BILLS-113s744es.pdf</a></span></div><div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Summary and Status</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:SN00744:@@@L&summ2=m&">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:SN00744:@@@L&summ2=m&</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sidebar: Congress gets paid even if the government is shut down. Too bad we can't say the same thing about the immediate families, beneficiaries of survivor benefit plans, of two service members killed in Afghanistan that month.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Jul 4, 2014, at 8:28 AM, <<a href="mailto:kfaunce@roadrunner.com">kfaunce@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>Here is the list of executive orders signed by each President.</span><br><span>Name number</span><br><span>Theodore Roosevelt 1,081</span><br><span>Franklin Roosevelt 3,522</span><br><span>Harry Truman 907</span><br><span>Dwight Eisenhower 484</span><br><span>John Kennedy 214</span><br><span>Lyndon Johnson 325</span><br><span>Richard Nixon 346</span><br><span>Gerald Ford 169</span><br><span>Jimmy Carter 320</span><br><span>Ronald Reagan 381</span><br><span>George H.W. Bush 166</span><br><span>Bill Clinton 364</span><br><span>George W. Bush 291</span><br><span>Barack Obama 147</span><br><span>Read more at <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp#S7BuXq7iSiA5EhAO.99">http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/executiveorders.asp#S7BuXq7iSiA5EhAO.99</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>---- Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com">paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Tom asked: "With a do-nothing congress in session a total of 112 days this</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>year, why are people upset with President Obama who is getting things done</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>. . . in spite of Congress."</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Because he's abusing executive privilege, something which we were both</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>against when Bush was in office and doing the same thing, if I remember</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>correctly.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Paul</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Scott Dredge <<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><For this, representatives get paid $180,000 (ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>DOLLARS).></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yes. Some government jobs offer decent wages, benefits, and retirement.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Some Bus drivers, fire fighters, police officers, and other civil servants</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>make much more that $180,000 through overtime. Good to have choices.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><Why is the House out of session EVERY August?></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Because the Congressional recess is in August. This means that the Senate</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>which is presently controlled by the stinking rotten DEMOCRATS is also out</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>of session. But for some obvious reason only the recess of the bumbling</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Republican House irks you (yes - we know - you gotta be true to your own</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>biases).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Here's more info on the August recess:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/News_August_Recess.htm">http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/News_August_Recess.htm</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><With a do-nothing congress in session a total of 112 days this year, why</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>are people upset with President Obama who is getting things done . . . in</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>spite of Congress.></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- Obama has continued with Bush's Wall Street policies</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- Obama has continued with Bush' foreign policy (albeit with tactical</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>changes)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- Obama has continued NSA spying</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- Obama has expanded executive authority</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>- Sunil could go on but it would fall upon deaf ears for anyone who</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>subscribes to the religion of Republican = bad, Democrat = good</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><Who are the REAL takers?></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Democrats. They take from the wealthy and give to the poor. And note, I</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>have no objection with present percentages of this taking / giving.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>------------------------------</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 06:23:07 -0700</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [Vision2020] U.S. House of Representatives Session Calendar,</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>113th Congress (2014)</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Courtesy of . . .</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://majorityleader.gov/Calendar/113thCongressSecondSession.pdf">http://majorityleader.gov/Calendar/113thCongressSecondSession.pdf</a></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>For this, representatives get paid $180,000 (ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>DOLLARS).</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>As we enter July (the House's busiest month with 16 days in session . . .</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>more than August, September, and October combined), I have a question . . .</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Why is the House out of session EVERY August?</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>With a do-nothing congress in session a total of 112 days this 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