Top 5 Evil New Bills In The House of Representatives

Top 5 Evil New Bills In The House of Representatives

I had to leave out a lot of good choices and boil it down to these five really bad ones. Some others, like the “Repealing The Job-Killing Healthcare Act”, probably belong on here, but I left many bills off due to the fact they will not likely pass the House, they are less prone to clear the Senate, and almost surely would be vetoed by the President never to rise above an override vote.




5.H.R. 58 -- Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act

This piece of work is to “update” certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions.




4.H. R. 45 -- Criminal Alien Accountability Act

This is to amend section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose mandatory sentencing ranges with respect to aliens who have committed 3 misdemeanors or a felony while here illegally. This is spite of the fact that mandatory minimum sentences have long ago been proven counterproductive.

3.H.R.77 -- Border Security, Cooperation, and Act Now Drug War Prevention Act of 2011

Lots of immigration hate this term, so to continue that…This legislation is to appropriate $150,000,000 per year to increase border security, including new vehicles, body armor, weapons and ammo, night-vision equipment, helicopters, boats, a joint ATF/DEA/Border Patrol task force, radios, GPS, computers, and new vehicles. This bill will also provide for grants to sheriffs departments within 25 miles of the border. All of this while we are already broke.

2.H.R. 67 -- extends expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 29, 2012.

If you’re not familiar with the USA PATRIOT Act then you can read a good summary of the problems with it here.



1.H.R. 3 -- No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act

A main goal of H.R. 3 is to directly attack private health insurance plans by imposing a new tax on individuals who choose and pay for a plan that covers abortion services. Conservatives once again use the passive aggressive method to harass abortion, being that they are unable to attack it directly with success.





If you like these but want a more positive fix, try The Top 10 Good House Bills

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The PATRIOT actors: A Turning Point For Conservatives.

The Republican-led House failed to pass an extension of expiring segments of the Patriot Act on Tuesday, an unexpected outcome to say the least.


Many tea party activists see the PATRIOT ACT as the federal government overreaching into private persons affairs. The provisions in question will lapse Feb. 28, so what are these unrenewable conditions?

The provisions set to expire include giving federal investigators admission to a suspect's personal records, such as library receipts, enabling the government, via court order, to conduct roaming wiretaps of terrorism suspects as they change phones or locations and to conduct surveillance on foreign terrorism suspects who are not affiliated with known groups, this is the so called "lone wolf" provision. The last one alone gives the right to scrutinize almost anyone.

The White House on Tuesday said in a statement that it "does not object" to extending the three Patriot Act provisions until December 2011 although it "would strongly prefer" an extension until December 2013, so much for hope and change.



If the TEA Party movement has ever done anything good for the country, this may be it. The vote in the house turned out the way it did, in part, due to the Republicans TEA Party offshoot.

This is a pivotal moment of choice for both TEA Party and conventional GOP members. Do they stick to the civil liberty and small government attitude that the TEA partiers bring to the table, or do they stick to the Ronald Reagan standard attitude and decide with defense.

Only time will tell, but if you write Congress people and/ or Senators, now is the time.