Congress unanimousoly sends bill to WH which names Alaska Mt. after indicted politician.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Having passed in identical form in both the House and Senate, this bill now awaits the signature of the President before becoming law.
Reminder:
Stevens was found guilty of corruption, but our current DOJ squashed his conviction, one of the DOJ lawyers who was found to have committed "gross prosecutorial misconduct " was found dead from "suicide" recently.

S. 3802:

Mount Stevens and Ted Stevens Icefield Designation Act - Directs the United States Board on Geographic Names to designate: (1) a specified unnamed peak in the Alaska Range near Denali Park in Alaska as "Mount Stevens"; and (2) a specified icefield in the northern Chugach Forest in Alaska as the "Ted Stevens Icefield."

Introduced Sep 20, 2010
Sponsor:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski hide cosponsors
Cosponsors:
Mark Begich

Votes: ( Note it took 20 days for our Congress to pass this bill)

Sep 27, 2010: This bill passed in the Senate by Unanimous Consent. A record of each senator’s position was not kept.
Sep 30, 2010: This bill passed in the House of Representatives without objection. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.

Reminder:
Stevens was found guilty of corruption, but our current DOJ squashed his conviction, one of the DOJ lawyers who was found to have committed "gross prosecutorial misconduct " was found dead from "suicide" recently.


http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3802

[Barack_America]

1. Indictments with that lot are all, "there, but for the grace of God go I".

It could be any one of them, so I'm not surprised they didn't hold it against him.

[RandomThoughts]

4. And if God gives someone grace.

Then they hold much against someone in hardship, what would be the thought of such a person?

Many people use the excuse of grace to think they are special, it might be that much more is then expected.

Nobody is perfect so everyone needs grace, but much of that is, not the grace of God protecting some people and not others, but the free will choices of people that lead to unbalances.

So those that think they are in privileged because of God's grace, might be there because they side with other forces by free will choices for worse ideas. So the grace comes in, not to put someone somewhere, but for concepts of forgiveness for some of the things done while there and to get there.

God does intervene in my view, but that does not mean he wants everyone where they are, and controls everything people do.

However many situations are caused by peoples choices, so you could say.

By the Grace of God I am saved and comforted and have many things.
And by the choices of many people there are things that are wrongfully taken and many hardships given to people wrongly.

That is why so many things try to get a person to think they do not have free will, to excuse wrong actions they do.


And I am still due beer and travel money and many experiences.

Tom Petty, Running down a dream
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2tisj_tom-petty-running-down-a-dream_creation

And that video is not the original version of the video, but a good song.

A-Ha - Take On Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

[Vogon_Glory]

2. We Can Afford To Be Generous With the Dead

It's true that the late Senator Stevens was a Republican and grubby around the edges, but we progressives can afford to be generous with his memory. He's dead, and he's not going to rallying TEA Partyin' reactionaries against Democrats. We don't have to like Ted Stevens or approve of his right-wing politics to say yes to this measure. Deep-sixing renaming the ice field after him would be a mirror-image of the right-wing politics of spite.

[Winterblues]

3. Believe it or not Stevens was/is highly thought of by both Democrats and Republicans in Alaska

I would bet if polled he would get at minimum 75% approval rating.. It is no wonder Alaskans want to name something after him...He is and always will be "uncle" Ted to most every Alaskan.

[damntexdem]

5. I would say that this is a case of making a molehill out of a mountain.

Except, rather than a molehill, it's more like a rat hole.

;-)