United States Code and which sections have been amended

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United States Code Classification Tables

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These tables show where recently enacted laws will appear in the United States Code and which sections of the Code have been amended by those laws. The tables sorted in Public Law order may be used to identify the sections of the Code affected by a particular law. The tables sorted in Code order may be used to determine whether a particular section of the Code has recently been amended. The tables only include those provisions of law that have been classified to the Code. The text of recently enacted laws may be found through the Library of Congress Thomas web site.

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S. 1: Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

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Section 102 of this act could be useful to our movement if coupled with Accurate information or host's leading to it. link,  http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1&tab=summary
  Section 102 -
Subjects to a fine or imprisonment of up to 15 years, or both, a Member of Congress or a congressional employee who with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity: (1) takes or withholds, or offers or threatens to take or withhold, an official act; or (2) influences, or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another. Provides that such individual may be disqualified from holding any federal office of honor, trust, or profit. States that nothing in such prohibition shall be construed to create any inference regarding whether such activity was a criminal or civil offense before the enactment of this Act.

                                 ******Highlights from the Act******
  • The following summary was for the Concurrence Vote for this bill on 2007-08-02. The bill may have changed since then.
  • -Increases the mandatory waiting period before becoming a lobbyist to two years after leaving office for former Senators and senior executive personnel, one year for former members of the House of Representatives, and one year for officers and staff of the Senate [Title I (Sec. 101)].
  • -Requires that every six months lobbyists disclose all donations made to Federal candidates or officeholders, leadership Political Action Committees (PAC’s), or political party committees that were greater than or equal to $200 [Title II (Sec. 203 [a])].
  • -Requires candidate committees, leadership PAC’s, and political party committees to disclose bundled contributions by a lobbyist totaling over $15,000 within a six-month period [Title II (Sec. 204)].
  • -Prohibits members of the House from participating in events that honor them at the presidential nominating convention for the party in which they belong if the event is directly paid for by a registered lobbyist unless they are a candidate for president or vice president at the convention [Title III (Sec. 305)].
  • -Prohibits any member of Congress from participating in the Civil Service Retirement System if convicted of bribery, fraud, perjury, corruption, conspiracy or other related offenses [Title IV (Sec. 401 [a])].
  • -Requires a Senator who intends to object to proceeding to a measure to submit a notice of intent in writing to the Majority or Minority leader and, no less than six session days after the submission of the notice, submit a notice to the Congressional Record that states the Senator’s objection and details the reasons [Title V (Sec. 512)].
  • -Requires that Senators who submit earmark requests on a bill or committee report be identified as the sponsor of their requests on a publicly accessible congressional website at least 48 hours before the item comes to a vote [Tile V (Sec. 521)].
  • -Requires that Senators, candidates for Senate, or Presidential candidates using non-commercial air travel pay the fair market value of the usual charter fare or rental charge for a comparable plane of comparable size [Title VI (Sec. 601)].
  • -Prohibits House members and candidates from accepting travel on an aircraft unless it is operated by a commercial carrier, an entity of the Federal government, or the government of any state [Title VI (Sec. 601)].
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The Center for Media and Democracy EXPOSED these bills

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ALEC Is acronym for the "American Legislative Exchange Council", according to "The Center for Media and Democracy" ALEC is a National Non Partisan organization, but it's Board Members are all Republican. Whenever an organization is found to be of a predominate or entirely make up of Republican or Democrat members or leadership, it should instinctively open up a sense of caution for the protection of your "Impartial" review of what the entity claims to openly promote. Or the entity making the claim of exposure or wrong doing. As it seems in this day & age, pureness of integrity is an empty advertisement, it is a common practice to Exaggerate & Fabricate ones own virtues & the portion's of society they stand for or relate to & belong to. As well as minimizing, marginalizing, manipulating or a complete denial to anything detrimental or controversial to the sympathy or growth or popularity or respect of the same societal ties.


Welcome to ALEC Exposed!

 On July 13, 2011, the Center for Media and Democracy unveiled this trove of over 800 "model" bills and resolutions secretly voted on by corporations and politicians through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). These bills reveal the corporate collaboration reshaping our democracy, state by state.

ALEC bills, which largely benefit the organization’s corporate members, have been introduced in legislatures in every state—but without disclosing to the public that corporations previously drafted or voted on them through ALEC.

Before our publication of this trove of bills, it has been difficult to trace the numerous controversial and extreme provisions popping up in legislatures across the country directly to ALEC and its corporate underwriters.

The Center obtained copies of the bills after one of the thousands of people with access shared them, and a whistle-blower provided a copy to the Center.

We have analyzed and marked up the bills and resolutions to help readers understand what the bills do, beyond the PR in the names of bills. We share them to help the public identify the legislation in their state and the wide extent of the agenda to rewrite our rights by the corporations that bankroll ALEC.

These bills and resolutions reach into almost every area of American life: worker and consumer rights, education, the rights of Americans injured or killed by corporations, taxes, health care, immigration, and the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink. Only by seeing the depth and breadth and language of the bills can one fully understand the power and sweep of corporate influence behind the scenes on bills affecting the rights and future of every American in every single state.

ALEC home page link-  http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&Template=/Templates/Tem...

ALEC Exposed Link-  http://alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

                                              Board Members

 Sen. Curt Bramble, Utah (R)

 Sen. Michael Lamoureux, Arkansas (R)

 Rep. Harold Brubaker, North Carolina (R)

 Rep. Steve McDaniel, Tennessee (R)

 Sen. Jim Buck, Indiana

 Sen. Ray Merrick, Kansas

 Sen. Kent Cravens, New Mexico

 Sen. Dean Rhoads, Nevada

 Rep. Jim Ellington, Mississippi

 Sen. Chip Rogers, Georgia

 Sen. Billy Hewes III, Mississippi

 Sen. William Seitz, Ohio

 Spkr. Bill Howell, Virginia

 Rep. Curry Todd, Tennessee

 Sen. Owen Johnson, New York

 Sen. Susan Wagle, Kansas

 

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