TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE

The Rules Committee is not a body well known outside Washington and is sometimes referred to as the \”traffic cop\” in the House. Most legislation must go through the Rules Committee where a \”rule\” is crafted detailing how it will be debated on the House floor. There is no similar mechanism in the Senate. Members who wish to offer amendments must file them with the Rules Committee. The committee then decides the fate of each potential amendment based, at least in part, on whether the amendment is \”germane\” to the underlying piece of legislation.

SUBMITTED BY KAT (published February 2014)

TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE

The Rules Committee is not a body well known outside Washington and is sometimes referred to as the \”traffic cop\” in the House. Most legislation must go through the Rules Committee where a \”rule\” is crafted detailing how it will be debated on the House floor. There is no similar mechanism in the Senate. Members who wish to offer amendments must file them with the Rules Committee. The committee then decides the fate of each potential amendment based, at least in part, on whether the amendment is \”germane\” to the underlying piece of legislation.

05/15/15

The long-time pastor of the Greater Cornerstone Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma was recently sentenced to 37 months in prison for embezzling close to $1 million from a community center he helped establish to aid the church’s struggling neighborhood.

Willard Leonard Jones essentially had an \”open checkbook\” for the church and community center accounts, said Special Agent Kevin Legleiter, who investigated the case with Forensic Accountant Janetta Maxwell from the FBI’s Oklahoma City Division. The two have partnered on financial fraud investigations for 20 years, and after following the paper trail in this case, there was no doubt of the reverend’s criminal activity.

Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo, Merchantville Police Chief Wayne Bauer and Pennsauken Police Chief John Coffey reported a Pennsauken man was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in state prison in connection with a motor vehicle crash that killed a mother and her daughter in Merchantville.

Keith A. Johnson, 33, pleaded guilty in March to two counts of first-degree aggravated manslaughter and one count of second-degree assault by auto. He acknowledged traveling between 70 and 100 mph in a 25-mph zone when his Dodge Durango collided head-on with a Honda Odyssey at Chapel and Russell avenues around 3:40 p.m. on January 31, 2013.

SUBMITTED BY KAT (published February 2014)

Vol. I No. 47 (May 17, 2015) Editors Note: Every Sunday morning a we will post a weekly comic strip provided by cartoonist Dave Wolfe, age 14. Dave has been drawing since he was 5 years old, he knew he wanted to be a cartoonist at the age of 8. He’s been distributing his comics in school since 3rd grade. (click on the image to enlarge)

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