it's called hr 3247, a bill proposed by congressman brian baird. it seeks to, and i quote, establish social and behavioral science research programs that would seek to identify and understand social and behavioral factors that influence energy consumption, to promote the utilization of the results of social and behavioral research to ill to improve the disiep development and application of energy technologies policies and programs. " oh, this is fantastic. remember the book "1984"? sure. it is nothing like that, really. this is completely different. there will also be a director of social and behave quorl research. oh, man, i doubt if it will be anybody with crazy beliefs like every other czar. this one will be totally like you. they will study us and find ways to trick us into driving crappy hybrids, and i bet that's just the beginning. as "time" magazine summarized on ail pril 2, quote, president obama is still relying on behavioral science, but now his administration is trying to use it to transform the country." they didn't say this like it was

was hours after the attack that the concern about continuity first arose in the mind of norm and brian baird and some others, efforts were begun almost immediately and yet over the years relatively little has happened and what has happened in congress, i would argue is -- has been perhaps at best neutral, having no impact and at worse, more harm than good. martin frost knows well the obstacles on capitol hill having listened to the concerns of some members of congress that it would be a travesty of the constitution and of our system of constitutional government to allow for any temporary appointments to the house of representatives violating the notion that anyone who enters the body has been elected by their constituents and further making the argument of the distinctive difference between the house and the senate, although, it seems to not take into account a constitutional amendment that provided for the direct election of senators, but that's another story. there also is, of course, the sort of continuing problem of how in the world do you remove the speaker of the house and the presiden

was hours after the attack that the concern about continuity first arose in the mind of norm and brian baird and some others, efforts were begun almost immediately and yet over the years relatively little has happened and what has happened in congress, i would argue is -- has been perhaps at best neutral, having no impact and at worse, more harm than good. martin frost knows well the obstacles on capitol hill having listened to the concerns of some members of congress that it would be a travesty of the constitution and of our system of constitutional government to allow for any temporary appointments to the house of representatives violating the notion that anyone who enters the body has been elected by their constituents and further making the argument of the distinctive difference between the house and the senate, although, it seems to not take into account a constitutional amendment that provided for the direct election of senators, but that's another story. there also is, of course, the sort of continuing problem of how in the world do you remove the speaker of the house and the presiden