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Latest Answers http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/133/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en Well I would think that as long as you are on a public sidewalk that you can do that, just as if someone was striking and they march around with a sign and keep moving. There are certain rules that you can’t just sit in front and block the doorway. But if you are moving and not obstructing anything in that regards. And you have a sign in front of you, as long as you are moving that is freedom of speech and I would think he has a right to do that.” Reporter: You think there might be a better way to get his money back? Meeks: Yeah, if the employer owes him money take him to court. It seems that $610, I’d take him to small claims court and have it adjudicated, and if the judge sees it his way, get his money back. Reporter: And it’s New York, so why not judge Judy? Meeks: Well he can do that to (laughter) http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well-i-would-think-long-you-are-public-sidewalk-you-can-do-%2C-just-if-someone-was-striking-an Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:25:17 -0500 Matt Laslo 1665 at http://askyourlawmaker.org I don’t know the answer to that. I was not in Congress at the time that that happened and I don’t know that anybody did. I don’t know how to answer that question. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/i-don%E2%80%99t-know-answer-.-i-was-not-congress-time-happened-and-i-don%E2%80%99t-know-anybody-did.-i-don%E2%80%99t http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/i-don%E2%80%99t-know-answer-.-i-was-not-congress-time-happened-and-i-don%E2%80%99t-know-anybody-did.-i-don%E2%80%99t#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:46:29 -0500 amukherjee 1536 at http://askyourlawmaker.org That's a great question. I don't know the answer but I'd like to find out myself. That's a great question. The thing is he may have just been spewing poison and bitterness but it would be interesting to know what he had to say. If he had any remorse for all the people that had been killed and raped and maimed and tortured on his watch. But that would be a good question and I'll try to find that out. That's a good question. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3B%2526%2523039%3Bs-great-question.-i-don%2526%2523039%3Bt-know-answer-i%2526%2523039%3Bd-find-out-myself.-%2526%2523039%3Bs- http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3B%2526%2523039%3Bs-great-question.-i-don%2526%2523039%3Bt-know-answer-i%2526%2523039%3Bd-find-out-myself.-%2526%2523039%3Bs-#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:18:19 -0500 amukherjee 1544 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Well, first I don’t think it was just that referendum caused the change. I believe the state legislature on the House side or the Speaker of the House proffered a motion that came over to the Senate, and the Democrats in the Senate wanted a paper trail measure added to it with reference to the change of the date. So the change of the date took place inside the legislature with the Governor’s approval and not on a state-wide referendum. But most assuredly the fact of the previous primary, the fact of the optical scan and other machines had a hand it, but the decision was more a political decision than one based on just on the machines.  http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bwell%2C-first-i-don%2526amp%3Brsquo%3Bt-think-it-was-just-referendum-caused-change.-i-believe Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:15 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1429 at http://askyourlawmaker.org They produce a lot of potatoes over there, I know that. There is very little their soil is actually conducive for agriculture. They do have some irrigated ground down in the south around Basra but, you know, most of that was drained or flooded by Saddam Hussein. I don’t know if they’ve ever gotten that infrastructure back yet. Not a whole lot of agriculture takes place in Iraq. There’s a lot of desert there, so they don’t have the water infrastructure either, is the problem. I mean I couldn’t…I’m just not sure. I think they have the starch they have a lot of starch the only thing would be potatoes that I know of at least at this point but they certainly don’t do any corn or soybeans or anything like that or wheat which would be our traditional crops. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/%2526lt%3Bp%2526gt%3Bthey-produce-lot-potatoes-over-there%2C-i-know-.-there-very-little-their-soil-actuall Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:14:58 -0500 Robin Wright 1386 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Yeah, I do think there is a great degree of unwarranted and unconstitutional secrecy in the dealing with the executive branch over the last 7 years and I think that was allowed to occur because the Congress basically shirked its role as a coequal branch of government and became a rubber stamp for the executive branch and so the system did not work but during the past year after the Democrats have taken control there has been whole lot more of oversight, hearings and investigations into various processes and functions of the executive branch and what we have been met with in many cases is a brick wall they don’t want to cooperate particularly with respect to the Justice department don’t want to cooperate and so we have had to issue subpoenas and certain matters already before the courts. I think legislative branch has reclaimed its rightful coequal branch of government and as long as you have the three coequal branches of government then there is really no need to diminish the power of the executive branch, but unchecked the executive can run rough shod over people rights and that is exactly what has happened during the last seven and half years. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/yeah%2C-i-do-think-there-great-degree-unwarranted-and-unconstitutional-secrecy-dealing-executi Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:18:08 -0500 Robin Wright 1377 at http://askyourlawmaker.org I have always been for voting rights for the DC delegate. As a matter of fact, if it were up to me, there would be the appropriate numbers of members of the House and two Senators. There are states that are smaller than the District and have that kind of representation. A lot of excuses have been made for why we can’t do it or should not do it. Some of them based on the Constitution. Others, I think based on the fear that if we were to have, say, two democratic Senators and a democratic House member, they would be in fact Democrats, as opposed to Republicans. And a lot of people, particularly Republicans, are concerned about that. Um. I just think it’s the right thing to do. I think you ask people to pay taxes, obey the laws and do all of the things they’re supposed to do, but yet they still don’t have full voting rights. I just have a major problem with that and I think it goes against this thing we call Democracy. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/i-have-always-been-voting-rights-dc-delegate.-matter-fact%2C-if-it-were-me%2C-there-would-be-app Wed, 21 May 2008 17:45:00 -0500 EW Johnson 1319 at http://askyourlawmaker.org Well, the questioner is incorrect. I actually voted against extending the PA. On the initial vote right which was after 9/11, yes, I voted along with almost every Democrat and Republican in Congress to create the Patriot Act which had a limited term to it. When that term was expiring and it came up to be extended, I voted ‘no,’ because I didn’t think it was appropriate to extend it permanently. So that’s how I treated that issue. I think it was important for us as an institution to keep some time frames or some limitations on how that Act could be implemented. And that’s why I voted ‘no’ when it was up for- to be made permanent. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well%2C-questioner-incorrect.-i-actually-voted-against-extending-pa.-initial-vote-right-which- Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:44:37 -0500 1173 at http://askyourlawmaker.org