Will Congress suspend our rights?

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on four bills on “suspension” of the rules. Suspension bills are debated for forty minutes, with no opportunity for amendment. This bills require a two-third majorty vote for passage. The suspension calender is supposed to be reserved for non-controversial bills like naming Post Offices or expressing support for national daffodil day. However, tomorrow there are two bills that actually are substantive  and deserve more attention then they are getting.

The first bill is HR 237, the ” FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015.” This bill gives the Secretary of  State the authority to deny a passport to  anyone the Secretary determines has aided a foreign terrorist organization. The bill provides no ability for someone wrongly denied a passport to challenge the Secretary of State’s findings that they helped a terrorists. So much for due process and reigning in executive power.

The second bill is HR 1473, which  authorizes  spending $190 million on DC’s John F.Kennedy Center for the Preforming Arts. This represents an increase in federal spending on the Kennedy Center, an institution which largely exists to entertain  the DC elite.

Campaign for Liberty members who support due process and wasteful spending should call their Representatives and tell them to oppose HR 237and HR 1473.