Senator Rand - "Businesses Should Be Able To Deny Service Based On Race" - Paul Attempts To Add Irrelevant Personhood Measure To National Flood Insurance Bill
Samantha
2012/06/27 01:02:35
Rand Paul is an extremist but, of course, so is his father.
When anti-abortion fanatics try to sabotage other bills in order to get their way, it’s time to kick them out of office. Senator Rand Paul is one of those fanatics. The Tea Party favorite is willing to kill important legislation by adding a provision that defines personhood as beginning at conception, even though the legislation has absolutely nothing to do with abortion.
Florida and Minnesota are currently being devastated by flooding. Flooding, as we all know, damages homes and businesses, and is very costly because many insurance policies do not cover this particular natural disaster. But the National Flood Insurance Program does. The program provides crucial aid to homeowners to help them rebuild their homes and lives. For years, Republican and Democratic Senators have been trying to work out a way to extend this program for the long-term, especially as hurricane season approaches, and they finally compromised on S.1940 which re-authorizes the government insurance program for the next five years, strengthens mitigation programs, reduces flood risk, increases community resilience to flooding, and creates pricing, eligibility and financial reform mandates to make the program fiscally solvent.
You would think that every Republican in the Senate would sign onto this immediately, right? After all, it’s a compromise that relieves homeowners while at the same time fixes the program to reduce debt. Even the Republican dominated House has passed it.
When anti-abortion fanatics try to sabotage other bills in order to get their way, it’s time to kick them out of office. Senator Rand Paul is one of those fanatics. The Tea Party favorite is willing to kill important legislation by adding a provision that defines personhood as beginning at conception, even though the legislation has absolutely nothing to do with abortion.
Florida and Minnesota are currently being devastated by flooding. Flooding, as we all know, damages homes and businesses, and is very costly because many insurance policies do not cover this particular natural disaster. But the National Flood Insurance Program does. The program provides crucial aid to homeowners to help them rebuild their homes and lives. For years, Republican and Democratic Senators have been trying to work out a way to extend this program for the long-term, especially as hurricane season approaches, and they finally compromised on S.1940 which re-authorizes the government insurance program for the next five years, strengthens mitigation programs, reduces flood risk, increases community resilience to flooding, and creates pricing, eligibility and financial reform mandates to make the program fiscally solvent.
You would think that every Republican in the Senate would sign onto this immediately, right? After all, it’s a compromise that relieves homeowners while at the same time fixes the program to reduce debt. Even the Republican dominated House has passed it.
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