Wall Street Journal
Democrats charge that the Republican Congress has accomplished nothing, or only given handouts to the wealthy. So the Republican Study Group, a conservative caucus, compiled a list of legislation that Democrats introduced during the 109th Congress. The list (at www.house.gov/pence/rsc) includes items like the "Social Security Forever Act," which would impose a new income tax, in addition to FICA, on workers and employers. Democrats also sponsored the proposed "Justice for the Unprotected Against Sexually Transmitted Infections Among the Confined and Exposed Act," a "Crack-Cocaine Equitable Sentencing Act," the "Antibullying Campaign Act," the "Ex-Offenders Voting Rights Act" and legislation to make Medicare and Medicaid cover "incontinence undergarments." Also on Democrats' agendas: bills to establish a National Archives collection of government records concerning rapper Tupac Shakur and a new U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence. It's all conceivable. In fact, an energetic Democratic Congress might accomplish all of those things, and much more. |