Update your bill (all of them) progress.

Reflect on:
The
current situation for the health care bill in the Senate. What is
happening? What happened over the weekend? What is the path forward for
potential passage?

National Bill, H.R. 2078: Nothing else has happened since this bill was referred to the subcommittee on Workforce Protections on June 4, 2009.         

 State Bill, H.B. 349: No action has taken place regarding the state bill. It was re-committed to Appropriations on April 23, 2009, but that is still the latest thing to happen to the state bill.            

City Council Bill, 090569: My tracked bill forr the city council has been passed. It was passed by the council on October 29, 2009. Then, city council bill 090569 was signed into law by mayor Nutter on November 4, 2009. In order to get this bill passed, the democrats in the Senate must find a way to convince the Republicans that having public option in health care would not destroy what we have had for all these years and throw our country into calamity. 

Reflection: I think the senate needs to just go ahead and pass the health care bill with public option. We need to get out of this recession as soon as possible, and this bill to reform our health care can help, so why not pass it? The Senate decided to move the health care reform bill to the Senate floor over the weekend. 

Today when I went out to the polling facility, I quickly noticed that the election scenario this year was hardly like that of last year at all. There were no lines, and not a huge amount of people streaming in and out of the facility. The only similarity between this and last year's election that I saw was that the same people were overseeing/facilitating the voting process, such as Ms. Terry. Connor. From what I understand, today's election scene is much less active than last year's because citizens are voting for individuals for positions that aren't as high as president and vice president. For example, here in Pennsylvania, the election was for Supreme Court judges/justices, the retention of already serving Supreme Court officials, and also for election judges, which Terry was one of the candidates for. So, I would say that because less authoritative figures are being elected today, everyone isn't't as interested in the election, making the voter turnout  lower and causing the facilities to receive less activity. In New Jersey, however, the new governor is being elected, so I would assume the activity is of a higher level over there. For Pennsylvania, it's simply a drop in the frequency of business regarding this year's election due to decreased priority in people's eyes. 

My Quarter 1 Amwrican Government Benchmark?

National Bill, H.R. 2078: No ore action has been taken regarding this bill since June 4, 2009.

State Bill, H.B. 349: Nothing has happened sinc eit was recommitted to Appropriations on April 23, 2009.

City Council Bill, 090569: Nothing else happened with this one since last week, and the next meeting for it is still scheduled for 10/22/09.

If I could have just one of my bills pass, I would want it to be the national one, H.R. 2078. Since it establishes a national comission for studying employment and economic insecurity, it would allow us to better understand our problems regarding finance and available occupations for our citizens. If we understand our problems well through this comission that can possibly be established, then more legislation to assist America and bring us out of a recession faster will come as a result.