you inflate regulations above and beyond the capability of the clinics so they have no choice but to shut down. you make it so they can t afford to comply then they have to shut their doors. here i thought republicans hated intrusive government regulations on small business. now, everyone expected governor walker would sign the bill and he did sign it, no surprise there. the surprise was actually how he signed it. usually when governors sign bills they want lots of attention for it. they have public signings with lots of press. make a big speech and talk about all the people in the state who will be helped by the legislation. governor walker did not do that. instead, he signed the bill privately the day after the independence day holiday when no one was paying attention. then he issued a written statement about it. nothing to see here at all, folks, you can move right along. that law was supposed to go into effect today. planned parenthood at the aclu filed a lawsuit challenging the la
people from all over the state showed up today to testify. they wanted to speak in person to their legislature about the bill. there were so many of them that the committee cut off the line at 11:00 a.m. everyone in line before that got to speak. everyone after that had to submit their testimony in writing. each person was allowed to speak for a couple of minutes. tonight, they are still speaking. they ll be testifying until about midnight local time. and republicans control the texas legislature and so it is highly unlikely they mess this up again. they will not let democrats filibuster and win this time. they are not taking any more chances. they will pass this bill closing down 37 of the 42 clinics in the state and governor perry could conceivably sign it into law by the end of the week. meanwhile in wisconsin over the weekend, republican governor scott walker signed an abortion bill forcing women to have mandatory medically unnecessary ultrasounds. like in texas, that bill, too,
there were so many of them that the committee cut off the line at 11:00 a.m. everyone in line before that got to speak. everyone after that had to submit their testimony in writing. each person was allowed to speak for a couple of minutes. tonight, they are still speaking. they ll be testifying until about midnight local time. and republicans control the texas legislature and so it is highly unlikely they mess this up again. they will not let democrats filibuster and win this time. they are not taking any more chances. they will pass this bill closing down 37 of the 42 clinics in the state and governor perry could conceivably sign it into law by the end of the week. meanwhile in wisconsin over the weekend, republican governor scott walker signed an abortion bill forcing women to have mandatory medically unnecessary ultrasounds. like in texas, that bill, too, would shut down clinics intentionally. that is the point of these kinds of bills.
but along came google and the good times ended for altavista, even when internet giant yahoo bought it in 2003, never quite were able to turn it around. people liked it when it was the only game in town, but no one ever said, ah, let me altavista that. but now google, google s a verb. last week yahoo announced they would be retiring the veteran search engine, which was a surprise to most who figured altavista had already died years ago. so everyone apparently except the people of pawnee, indiana. so i looked you up on altavista and i found out the last seven towns you ve gone to ended up bankrupt. okay. first of all, why does everyone in this town use altavista? is it 1997? so is if you fired up your computer ready to search something today on altavista, this is what you got. a redirect to yahoo s search page because today altavista went the way of netscape and geo cities and prodigy and the beloved but mostly dead friendster. all dead and buried in that internet graveyard in the
this way. no other part of the court system works this way. after congress passes a law and the president signs it, it is this secret court that has the ability to go back and reinterpret what they meant without the public and without most members of congress even knowing what they re doing. this is big news and thanks to this reporting, we now know, we know that the court is doing something we did not know they were doing before. they re not just telling the federal government, yes, what you want to do is in accordance with the law or no, it is not. it s not just mother may i. this court is reinterpreting the law. making law. none of us can see it. none of us can comment on it. it affects all of us in a really direct way. now that we know this is happening, a sort of odd bedfellow coalition in the senate including democrat jeff merkley and republican mike lee are pushing to declassify the rulings. according to my colleague, greg sergeant at the washington post, democratic senator ch