StateSurge is a law and legislation management system designed to help its users track legislation and manage legislative events. Registered users can received automated notifications on any changes in law and legislation as well as quickly build reports and communicate effectively through our integrated newsletter system.
StateSurge.com computes daily activity levels for individual pieces of legislation and normalizes results (average activity for a bill is 1). Next we analyze the sponsorship and co-sponsorship of bills. Legislators who sponsor bills that receive a lot of activity receive effectiveness points. The more activity on legislation proposed by a legislator, the higher the effectiveness ranking.
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Russia says it's capable of annihilating NATO's Black Sea ships within 20 min!! On August 28, 2008 Russia's General of Staff stated that "Despite the apparent strength, the NATO naval group in the Black Sea is not battle-worthy," adding that Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's fleet "within 20 minutes". Rising tensions between the US and Russia have diverted most of our attention to the Georgia/Russia conflict despite the fact that tensions are still incredibly high in the oil-rich Black Sea. For some time, US ally Turkey has been conducting extensive research with BP to explore the possibility of investing great sums of money within the region in its pursuit for greater energy independence. Security within the region is obviously a high priority.
GAO report finds most companies get around fed income tax; Good for them... In a recent report conducted by the General Accountability Office (GAO) it was found that roughly two thirds of US corporations found ways to avoid paying federal income taxes between the years 1998 and 2005. Additionally, it was found that 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the United States partook in the same exercise. The report was initially requested by Senators Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) and Carl Levin (D-MI). Many people believe that it is unfair for these corporations to avoid such a tax but considering the complexities and time spent on complying, why wouldn't they?
The end of the last free media frontier - i-Patriot Act-type sponsors The words we have all feared for so long are increasingly becoming a reality day after day. As forewarned at the 08 Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, "There's going to be an i-9/11 event which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet". Change is in the wind, and several key legislators are busier than ever thinking of new ways on how to use legislation as a tool to regulate the only true free frontier for media we have left.
Bill Text To ensure the fair treatment of a member of the Armed Forces who is discharged from the Armed Forces, at the request of the member, pursuant to the Department of Defense policy permitting the early discharge of a member who is the only surviving child in a family in which the father or mother, or one or more siblings, served in the Armed Forces and, because of hazards incident to such service, was killed, died as a result of wounds, accident, or disease, is in a captured or missing in action status, or is permanently disabled, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation on contributions to funeral trusts, and for other purposes.
There is no question that Los Angeles is in need of more transportation solutions. I am concerned though, that the 30-year sunset clause is too long. To alter any project or to portion of the bill is [...]
What is the status of magistrates who have no college degree and were hired prior to the July 1, 2008 date? Also, the chief magistrate will be required to have a law degree and have passed the bar, but [...]
From a climate change/ environmental perspective, the heating of any swimming pool, exclusively with natural gas, propane or electricity, is a luxury that society can no longer afford. If you or your [...]
In an article in the L. A. Times today (9/01/08, "Legislators Get Bills Off Their Plate", page B1) Times Staff Writer Nancy Vogel indicated that SB1301 allows illegal immigrant students to receive financial [...]
StateSurge is a law and legislation management system designed to help its users track legislation and manage legislative events. Registered users can received automated notifications on any changes in law and legislation as well as quickly build reports and communicate effectively through our integrated newsletter system.
On August 28, 2008 Russia's General of Staff stated that "Despite the apparent strength, the NATO naval group in the Black Sea is not battle-worthy," adding that Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's fleet "within 20 minutes". Rising tensions between the US and Russia have diverted most of our attention to the Georgia/Russia conflict despite the fact that tensions are still incredibly high in the oil-rich Black Sea. For some time, US ally Turkey has been conducting extensive research with BP to explore the possibility of investing great sums of money within the region in its pursuit for greater energy independence. Security within the region is obviously a high priority.
In a recent report conducted by the General Accountability Office (GAO) it was found that roughly two thirds of US corporations found ways to avoid paying federal income taxes between the years 1998 and 2005. Additionally, it was found that 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the United States partook in the same exercise. The report was initially requested by Senators 
The words we have all feared for so long are increasingly becoming a reality day after day. As forewarned at the 08 Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, "There's going to be an i-9/11 event which will act as a catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet". Change is in the wind, and several key legislators are busier than ever thinking of new ways on how to use legislation as a tool to regulate the only true free frontier for media we have left.
