Issa's agenda: condoms, yoga, pot

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49630.html

Rep. Darrell Issa is focused on menopause, condoms, malt liquor and video games as the House considers how the government should spend taxpayer money over the next seven months.

The California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee submitted a slew of amendments yesterday that would ban government-funded studies of how well men use condoms, the effects of integral yoga in treating hot flashes for menopausal women, whether video games improve old folks’ mental health, the use of marijuana in conjunction with malt liquor and with opiates, and the impacts of a possible soda tax.

Issa’s assault on silly-sounding studies represents just a small slice of the 180 amendments that House Republicans and Democrats prepared yesterday for the trillion-dollar continuing resolution that would fund the government through Sept. 30. There were already 403 amendments in the hopper, meaning nearly 600 were drafted before yesterday’s deadline. Many of them are duplicative, will be ruled out of order on the House floor or will not be offered at all. Most amendments are expected to fail.

Issa’s staff said some of the amendments target specific National Institutes of Health grants, while others restrict the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Science Foundation.

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Oh wait, he wants to ban them?

never mind

elected officials and how it effects this country........