Sedona AZ – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: U.S. House of Representatives Millions of workers across this country enjoy the freedom to choose whether or not to belong to a union. That freedom would be stripped away if a new bill, called the PRO Act, gets through Congress. Tell Congress: Stand up for Workers! The PRO Act would: Force workers to pay union dues, even if they... 

Sedona AZ – Today, thanks to a provision within the bipartisan First Step Act of 2018, more than 2,000 people will be released from federal prisons and return home to their families and communities. Already, thousands of individuals and their families have benefitted from the First Step Act, but more must be done to ensure the law’s success. If fully and properly implemented by the administration,... 

Sedona AZ – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor: We are told by the Al Gore group of political disciples that carbon dioxide (CO2) causes global warming: Spectrographic techniques as practiced by lab science says this is wrong. The CO2 in our atmosphere cannot transmit heat directly to the Earth. Low frequency emissions or infrared rays (IR), produced from the sun when its surface... 

Sedona AZ (November 2, 2015) – Representative Dr. Paul A. Gosar (AZ-04) plans to introduce legislation this Thursday, November 6, 2015, to reform the 1906 Antiquities Act and stop its continuing abuse. This legislation will update the 1906 Antiquities Act to ensure local community interests, as well as private property rights and water rights, are protected. National monuments can be powerful... 

Sedona Eye guest columnist, Mel Copen Sedona AZ (December 12, 2011) – Every now and then, issues arise which I believe are important, but which can be dealt with in substantially less than a full column. When I accumulate a few, “points to ponder” is the result. The First Amendment to the Constitution contains the wording: “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…”... 

Washington DC–The House of Representatives voted 234 to 188 Thursday, December 2 2010, to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts on incomes up to $250,000. Also included in the bill were a two-year delay of the Alternative Minimum Tax, an elimination of the marriage penalty tax, and permanent increases to the child tax credit and the earned-income tax credit. Twenty Democrats voted against the...