bug-hunter

1.) Do you get to let parrots testify?

2.) What's the most ridiculous "dangerous dog" case you've had?

3.) What's your favorite emotional support animal?

Edit: 4.) Favorite Muppet, and why is it Sam the Eagle.

1.) Why do you feel that an indirect infringement of 1st amendment rights (religious liberty to not even indirectly fund birth control) trumps the patient's doctor-patient privilege about why they are taking a specific medicine? And why is the religious liberty more important than the large percentage of woman taking birth control for non-contraceptive reasons (to treat other, often debilitating, conditions)?

It's not just that I disagree with you, I simply have never heard any argument that explains why this indirect religious liberty should trump women's health issues that often have nothing to do with contraception.

2.) Rather than approaching piracy from a pure enforcement standpoint, has Congress considered approaching it from a service standpoint as well? For example, work with the motion picture and recording industries to promote better services to limit piracy (a la iTunes and Steam)?

3.) From talking to people who would like to be entrepreneurs but can't, the 4 biggest obstacles seem to be regulations (real or imagined - I think people sometimes get scared by the fringe cases), health care, student loans, and funding. How could Congress help would-be entrepreneurs overcome these obstacles?

BTW: I'm one of these.

Edit: BTW, thank you very much for your work against SOPA and PIPA. It's good to have folks in Congress who understands these issues well.

HSAs are meant to help people who tend to not spend much on health care, so that their money rolls over until such time as they need it. The original idea would be that the employer plan would contribute a little, and then the employee would contribute more (tax free, reducing your top end tax liability). They were also originally intended to complement existing plans, not replace them - until employers saw how awesome they were at shifting costs to employees.

HSAs are good for young healthy people, and crappy for nearly everyone else, seeing as most families with kids end up blowing through HSAs every year. People with special needs, disabilities, or special conditions aren't well served by these plans.

Sight words are usually only the very common words, or relatively common words that people find tricky.

For example, words like the, I, and, and but should absolutely be recognized on sight.

I do not believe laws should be enacted that would force a business or an individual to associate with those they wish not to associate with.

So you are OK with the pre-Civil Rights Act status quo where black people had entire towns they were not allowed to be in after dark, where they could travel for miles without having access to public accomodations?