Randy Kuhl and Eric Massa both agree that the stimulus package that just passed Congress is a good thing, and the
Hornell Evening Tribune and
WENY carry reports on the trip.
In the Hornell Evening Tribune story, Kuhl also makes the claim that the WHAM "got it all wrong" when reporting in his Brazil trip. In the same story, Massa says it's time to move on and address other, more important issues.
The Buffalo Evening News
carries a Kuhl quote about the stalled extension of State Highway 219. Apparently part of the stall was an environmental issue involving the Army Corps of Engineers.
Kuhl is
one of the many signers of a Congressional friend-of-the-court brief in support of the individual right to bear arms. The case is DC vs Heller, which challenges the DC law banning guns on constitutional grounds. This case will add precedent on the issue of whether the Second Amendment guarantees a collective or individual right to bear arms.
(In news only I care about, the Hornell Evening Tribune switched to the Gatehouse Media standard Zope-based content management system, so now their URLs won't change overnight.)
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It is my understanding that if the Court agrees that the 'Right to bear arms' is an individual's right, then will then define what is an acceptable 'arm'. There is a law that makes 'Weapons of mass killing' (ie machine gun)illegal. It will be interesting to see what the Court does.
I'm guessing they go with the individual right interpretation, but who knows on machine guns. Most of the 'mass killing' that's happened in the US recently has been by automatic weapons, not machine guns, and there would be a revolt if those were made illegal.