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The House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property passed the Performance Rights Act today. Up for consideration is terrestrial radio's exemption from paying performance royalties for the use of sound recordings.

...like bloggers scorned.

Barack Obama supports the compromise bill on FISA, though he wants to strip immunity from the final Senate version. I await the scorn from the blogosphere.

I said in a past post that the MMA (Mixed martial arts) bill had passed the senate it has not. I thought when an amendment was added after it passed the house it was to conform to the passed senate version. It was added to change the date but it did not pass the senate yet. The big hold up is an amendment to give surplus funds created by MMA to D1 college wrestling programs.

Adam Groves shares the news of Rep. Brian Kelsey lone vote against lowering the eligible GPA for students seeking lottery scholarships:

This is disappointing:

(Cross-posted at TennViews.)

Last week I posted at Blue Collar Muse on an interesting piece of correspondence that crossed my desk. It was a notice that 25 Attorneys General across the country, in a bi-partisan effort, had signed a letter urging the leadership of the US House to bring the FISA bill to a vote in the House. Despite being overwhelmingly supported in the Senate and with enough votes to pass in the House if voted upon, a small group of Democrats are holding up this important legislation from even being cons

How involved should our government be in directing product safety? The Senate believes that the Consumer Product Safety Commission should be properly funded to be able to do the work it was set up to do.

Our two representatives in the world’s most deliberative legislative body split on the President’s stimulus package:

Alexander praised the president and the House of Representatives for moving quickly on a stimulus package. He says the Senate version, which includes rebate checks for seniors and disable veterans, improves upon that bill.

The GOP blocks the senate version of the stimulus package and then turn around and say that the dems are to blame. Lovely game the GOP likes to play.

Republicans, though, said they were ready to accept rebates for seniors and disabled veterans and accused Democrats of delaying the stimulus plan for political gain and loading it down