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From: etchmeister	12/20/2011 7:51:06 PM
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OT: "riders" attached to the payroll tax cut bill...no wonder they can not accomplish one thing The measure also contains many policy provisions, including those to: -Block detainees from Guantanamo Bay from being transferred to the United States. -Block new energy efficiency regulations for light bulbs. -Prohibit the District of Columbia government from funding abortions for poor women. -Ban federal funding of needle exchange programs that help prevent the spread of AIDS among drug users. -Delay new Labor Department regulations limiting coal dust in mines. -Require the government to use the E-verify system to make sure new federal hires are eligible to work in the United States. -Block the EPA or state regulators from requiring clean water permits for the construction of timber roads. -Delay voluntary guidelines on the food industry to limit marketing to children of foods that have high fat, sugar or sodium levels. — Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration succeeded in dumping numerous other GOP policy “riders” from the bill, including attempts to: -Block funding of various steps required to implement the new laws overhauling health care and financial regulation. -Block Environmental Protection Agency rules on greenhouse gases, mountaintop removal mining and hazardous emissions from utility plants, industrial boilers and cement kilns. GOP efforts to block EPA rules on coal ash and large-scale discharges of hot water from utility plants were also blocked. -Eliminate funding for family planning programs in the U.S. and overseas. -Block Obama administration rules easing restrictions on people who visit and send money to relatives in Cuba. -Ban taxpayer subsidies from being used to purchase National Public Radio programming. -Eliminate taxpayer grants to Planned Parenthood. -Require all teen pregnancy prevention grants to go to abstinence-only programs. -Eliminate the option of public financing of presidential campaigns. -Block “net neutrality” rules to prevent Internet service providers from discriminating against those who send content and other services over their networks. -Bar the Consumer Product Safety Commission from creating a public database of product safety concerns. Sign Up Sign up to receive email updates See all photo galleries Stay Connected facebook youtube twitter flickr

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