On Sunday, I wrote about the Miller Amendment to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act, an amendment that would put into law some of the most comprehensive protections against political interference to date. I noted that the amendment had been stalled by the Republican leadership but should be voted on sometime soon. Well, Michael Stebbins of Sex Drugs & DNA reports this evening that the amendment came up for a vote in the House Science Committee today and was solidly voted down by the Republican majority. In fact, while all Democrats voted for it, all Republicans voted against it. Read the full story here.
Sure, the Republicans don't hate science... sure they don't....
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It took them long enough, but the Democrats finally are making parliamentary maneuvers work for them, not against them.
Terri Leo just offered an amendment to add a standard to Biology 9:
D) analyze and evaluate the evidence regarding formation of simple organic molecules and their organization into long complex molecules having information such as the DNA molecule for self-replicating life.
I have written extensively in the past about the 14th amendment and the doctrine of incorporation.
Dunbar offers a new amendment to the fraught 3A, formerly the "strengths and weaknesses" language. It would now read:
NOAA, where science gains value. - the NOAA podcasts.
I consider myself a hard line conservative. From the Republican perspective, i'm a liberal flaming with nuclear fire. Are a hundred million people wrong? They are also probably running Windows. By choice.