President Obama signed four bills into law

[Tx4obama]

Source: The White House

On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, the President signed into law:

H.R. 6398, which provides for permanent Federal deposit insurance coverage for Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, the interest earned on which is used by States to support legal aid for low-income individuals;

H.R. 6517, the “Omnibus Trade Act of 2010,” which extends the Andean Trade Preference Act Trade Adjustment Assistance;

S. 3386, the “Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act,” which protects online consumers from unfair and deceptive sales tactics on the Internet by: (1) requiring companies that offer goods or services on other companies' websites to meet certain requirements before charging consumers' financial accounts; (2) prohibiting companies from transferring their customers' billing information to companies that are offering goods or services on their websites; and (3) requiring companies that use "negative options" (i.e., require consumers to take an affirmative action to reject goods or services) to meet certain minimum requirements; and

S. 4058, “Helping Heroes Keep Their Homes Act of 2010,” which extends enhanced protections for service members relating to mortgages and mortgage foreclosures through December 31, 2012.

Read more: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/29/statement-press-secretary-12292010

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Since this is an official White House statement for public use and not a copyrighted article, I am assuming that the 'extra' sentence will be allowed here on DU.

[SkyDaddy7]

1. Thanks!

Happy New Year! :party: :toast:

Hope you had a wonderful Holiday! :hi:

[Major Hogwash]

2. Somebody better check his pockets.

There's a defense bill floating around somewhere that hasn't been signed yet that contains a clause preventing the President from spending any funds from the Department of Defense to move prisoners from GITMO to the States for prosecution.

[Tx4obama]

4. There are still several bills that Obama has not yet signed.

WH will have signing ceremonies on the important ones when Obama returns from Hawaii.
Do you think Obama will veto the defense bill due to the lack of GITMO relocation funding?

[Major Hogwash]

6. Yes.

I'm hoping he will pocket veto that stinking defense bill.
If the Republicons want to make cuts to the budget, that's the first place for them to start!

Have a Happy New Year.

[davidwparker]

5. Does anybody have an idea why the 'cons work so hard

to prevent the ones at GITMO from coming here?

Everybody knows they were tortured. Napolean Bonehead was running around saying he did and would do it again.

If they come here and describe being tortured, this admin won't do anything about it.

So, why such tricks to keep them there?

[JTFrog]

3. K&R