The President of Downsize DC is Jim Babka. Harry Browne served for over a year as the Director of Public Policy . The Chair of DownsizeDC.org is Gary Nolan . Mark Cenci and David Page both also serve on the Board Of Directors .
The chair of the Downsize DC Foundation is Jack Mullen . Along with Jim Babka, Laura Carno , John McAlister , and David Ruprecht also serve on the Downsize DC Foundation Board of Directors.
Downsize DC.org is currently focusing on a number of Bills before Congress , as well as promoting one that it drafted, called the Read The Bills Act . This bill, if passed, would effectively ensure that:
- Congress must read every bill before they vote on it
- Congress must wait at least 7 days to vote on a bill after they have read it
- Congress must give the public 7 days' notice of when a vote will be held, and post each bill on the Internet for public review 7 days before the vote
- The , 2005
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- The Read The Bills Act of 2005, May 22 , 2005
- The , 2005, with the addition of an amendment written by DownsizeDC.org
- A proposal to bring the National Guard home so that they can be used in cases of emergency, such as the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, September 5 , 2005
- An initiative to end Federal Flood Insurance , September 13 , 2005
- An initiative to get President Bush to use his powers of Veto & Rescission to cut runaway federal spending and pork, October 18 , 2005
- The , 2006
- The , 2006
- The Write The Laws Act
- Repeal of the
- The Fiscal Responsibility Act Of 2007 , H.R. 500 {Link without Title} , March 4, 2007
- The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act Of 2004 , H.R. 3717 H.R. 554[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.RES.554: , and S. 2056[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2056:]
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- Legislation conceptualized by Sen. Ted Stevens to Censor Cable Television , May 9 , 2005
- The , 2005
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- Bush's $200 billion plan for Gulf Coast reconstruction, September 19 , 2005
- Three bills (the , 2006
- The "misnamed" , 2006
- Senator Bill Frist 's combination of the Online Freedom of Speech Act (a bill DownsizeDC.org supports) with the Lobbying Reform Act (a bill designed to regulate grassroots citizen lobbying groups), March 12 , 2006
- The National Animal Identification System (NAIS), April 10 , 2006
- Military action against Iran , August 16 , 2006
- The Internet gambling prohibition in the SAFE Port Act , October 4 , 2006
- The Military Commissions Act , October 15 , 2006
These pages were previously associated with Jim Babka or Downsize DC, but have since been archived.
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