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Rep. Towns Kicks Off the 111th Congress

posted by charlie
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 6:51pm

Our very own Congressman Ed Towns kicked off the 111th Congress today with the House passing two of his Bills. Not the most interesting of legislation, but still a good step towards reversing the Bush Administration's war on transparency.

From the AP:

Future donations to presidential libraries would have to be publicly disclosed, the House decided Wednesday.

The library vote and a separate one making it more difficult for former presidents to prevent documents from entering the public domain kicked off a new session of Congress. Majority Democrats have joined with President-elect Barack Obama in promising to make government operations more transparent. Both bills now go to the Senate.

Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said there was "enormous potential for abuse" from the current lack of disclosure. He said the Clinton library in Little Rock, Ark., cost an estimated $165 million and the Bush library is expected to cost considerably more.

 

 
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 11:33am.
Transparency Rules!
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Go Towns
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Submitted by slothman8888 on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 2:16pm.

Good on Congressman Towns, good on him.  And hey, that was the first bill passed by the new Congress, wasn't it?

And, just for those keeping count, there's even some news on the Kevin Powell front.  Seems like things have been pretty quiet from the Powell camp, don't you think?

First off, seems his site is offline nowadays: http://www.kevinpowellforcongress.org/

Go check it out, all you get is the ever-amusing:

"This site is temporarily unavailable.

Hosted by Network Solutions."

And it seems his latest tome of wisdom (and I use "his" loosely since he only edited it, not wrote it) is burning up the bestseller charts at Amazon.com

#22,572 as of today.

WAY TO GO!

But finally, this one takes the cake.  Kevin posted a promotional video on YouTube to pitch this book and explain why these are important thoughts, and why he's the right person to be thinking them.  Check it out.

My favorite quote, at 1:46 in:

"I wish that I had that Black Male Handbook back when Tupac was alive, because maybe it could have kept him alive."

Really?  The book you edited might have saved Tupac back then?  Wow.  Tall statement that one is.

Personally, I have confidence that if Congressman Towns had passed his bill back then, I *KNOW* that it *MIGHT* have saved Tupac too!!!  Take that!



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