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Hello!I know this one for you…Unsurprisingly, Trump’s way off, again! Republicans have concocted a message of their own that they repeat endlessly: Do-nothing congressional Democrats have failed to work across the aisle or to generate any useful legislation since Trump arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.This flat-out fabrication is no surprise coming from the man of 15,000 lies and his evil, Republican toadies. And, as disinformation specialists know so well, repeat a lie often enough and a certain portion of the populace will believe it’s true. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that obviously can be enough to achieve whatever scheme you have in mind. Saying Democrats have not done anything can act like an ad jingle, permanently engraving BS on the brain of fooled people.But as always, I’ll provide you the facts and figures. Below is a linked list of bills the House had passed as of Dec. 5, 283 of which Democrats call “bipartisan.” To get that label, a bill only requires a single vote from across the aisle, and a few of these bills only received one. But some received overwhelming Republican support in the House. This makes no difference to McConnell.Of the 383 bills that have been passed by the House, 82% are still bottled up in the Senate. This list does not include House resolutions. If you click here, you can see bills and resolutions that have passed the House and the Senate and become law, bills that have passed the House and the Senate and are awaiting action by the White House, and bills that have passed the House and are awaiting action in the Senate.LIST OF BILLS PASSED BY THE HOUSE AND AWAITING ACTION IN THE SENATESource: Search Bills in CongressExamples of Bipartisan House Bills Stalled in the Senate Include:H.R.5, Equality ActH.R.6, The American Dream and Promise ActH.R.7, Paycheck Fairness ActH.R.8, Bipartisan Background Checks ActH.R.9, Climate Action Now ActH.R.987, Protecting People With Pre-Existing Conditions/Lowering Drug CostsH.R.582, Raise The Wage ActH.R.397, Rehabilitation For Multiemployer Pensions Act (The Butch Lewis Act)H.R.1585, Violence Against Women Reauthorization ActH.R.1644, Save The Internet ActH.R 2722, Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) ActH.R.2513, The Corporate Transparency ActH.R.1112, Enhanced Background ChecksH.R.1994, Secure Act/Gold Star Family Tax Relief ActH.R.205, 1146, 1941 – Banning Offshore Drilling on Atlantic, Pacific, Eastern Gulf & ANWR CoastsH.R.1423, Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) ActMore than 30 bills to support veteransOther Examples of Bills Stalled in the Senate that Democrats Support:H.R.1, For The People ActH.R.4617, Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy (SHIELD) ActH.R.1500, Consumers First ActThe first 283 are “bipartisan.” The final 32 were supported by Democrats only.H.R. 648: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (10 Republican Votes)H.R. 21: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (7 Republican Votes)H.R. 2440: Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act (79 Republican votes)H.R. 693: U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics Act of 2019 (100 Republican Votes)H.R. 1654: Federal Register Modernization Act (195 Republican Votes)H.R. 116: Investing in Main Street Act of 2019 (180 Republican votes)H.R. 2114: Enhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2019 (Republican cosponsor, voice vote)H.R. 987: Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act (5 Republican votes)H.R. 2083: Homeland Procurement Reform Act (Republican cosponsor, voice vote)H.R. 1759: BRIDGE for Workers Act (167 Republican Votes)H.R. 266: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (10 Republican votes)H.R. 267: Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (12 Republican votes)H.R. 265: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2019 (10 Republican votes)H.R. 264: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019 (8 Republican Votes)H.R. 2528: STEM Opportunities Act of 2019 (4 Republican Cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 4477: Reducing High Risk to Veterans and Veterans Services Act (Republican Cosponsor, voice voted)H.R. 539: Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2019 (171 Republican votes)H.R. 583: Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act (5 Republican Cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 728: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 (21 Republican cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 1781: Payment Commission Data Act of 2019 (6 Republican cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 226: Clarity on Small Business Participation in Category Management Act of 2019 (183 Republican votes)H.R. 823: Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act (5 R Votes)H.R. 2578: National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2019 (R Cosponsor, voice vote)H.R. 3153: EFFORT Act (9 R Cosponsors, voice vote)H.R. 2486: FUTURE Act (8 R cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 986: Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2019 (4 R votes)H.R. 2781: Educating Medical Professionals and Optimizing Workforce Efficiency and Readiness for Health Act of 2019 (4 R cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 647: Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (101 R Cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 1837: United States-Israel Cooperation Enhancement and Regional Security Act (149 R cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 1582: Electronic Message Preservation Act (R Cosponsor, voice voted)H.R. 1503: Orange Book Transparency Act of 2019 (191 R votes)H.R. 1520: Purple Book Continuity Act of 2019 (192 R votes)H.R. 550: Merchant Mariners of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 (101 R cosponsors, voice voted)H.R. 3624: Outsourcing Accountability Act of 2019 (2 R votes)H.R. 3352: Department of State Authorization Act of 2019 (R cosponsor, voice voted)H.R. 1912: DHS Acquisition Documentation Integrity Act of 2019 (R cosponsor, voice vote)H.R. 424: Department of Homeland Security Clearance Management and Administration Act (R cosponsor, voice vote)H.R. 3702: Reforming Disaster Recovery Act of 2019 (71 R votes)H.R. 397: Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act of 2019 (29 R votes)H.R. 3207: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 114 Mill Street in Hookstown, Pennsylvania, as the “Staff Sergeant Dylan Elchin Post Office Building”. (9 R cosponsors, voice vote)H.R. 3152: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 456 North Meridian Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the “Richard G. Lugar Post Office”. (7 R cosponsors, voice vote)H.R. 806: Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2019 (10 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3619: Appraisal Fee Transparency Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2035: Lifespan Respite Care Reauthorization Act of 2019 (4 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3375: Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (195 R Votes)H.R. 1365: To make technical corrections to the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act. (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2359: Whole Veteran Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1404: Vladimir Putin Transparency Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1271: Vet HP Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 246: Stimulating Innovation through Procurement Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 227: Incentivizing Fairness in Subcontracting Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted )H.R. 3460: End Neglected Tropical Diseases Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1446: Multinational Species Conservation Funds Semipostal Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2019 (14 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2115: Public Disclosure of Drug Discounts and Real-Time Beneficiary Drug Cost Act (184 R Votes)H.R. 1618: Nicholas and Zachary Burt Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1420: Energy Efficient Government Technology Act (164 R Votes)H.R. 1768: Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2019 (76 R Votes)H.R. 526: Cambodia Democracy Act of 2019 (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2507: Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019 (16 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1359: Digital GAP Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 375: To amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for Indian Tribes, and for other purposes. (101 R Votes)H.R. 2409: Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act (185 R Votes)H.R. 1328: ACCESS BROADBAND Act (11 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1585: Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 (33 R Votes)H.R. 762: Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 501: Poison Center Network Enhancement Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 502: FIND Trafficking Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1952: Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019 (182 R Votes)H.R. 1616: European Energy Security and Diversification Act of 2019 (167 R Votes)H.R. 525: Strengthening the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4803: Citizenship for Children of Military Members and Civil Servants Act (6 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4018: To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes. (5 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4634: Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2019 (167 R Votes)H.R. 1773: Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2019 (64 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3734: Successful Entrepreneurship for Reservists and Veterans Act (193 R Votes)H.R. 4842: Expositions Provide Opportunities Act of 2019 (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4695: Protect Against Conflict by Turkey Act (176 R Votes)H.R. 3942: Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act (16 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2426: Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (185 R Votes)H.R. 95: Homeless Veteran Families Act (192 R Votes)H.R. 3190: Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2019 (170 R Votes)H.R. 3589: Greg LeMond Congressional Gold Medal Act (75 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1984: DISASTER Act (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3409: Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1665: Building Blocks of STEM Act (3 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 34: Energy and Water Research Integration Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 736: Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (9 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2331: SBA Cyber Awareness Act (4 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2615: United States-Northern Triangle Enhanced Engagement Act (14 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1044: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 (140 R Votes)H.R. 951: United States-Mexico Tourism Improvement Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1994: Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (187 R Votes)H.R. 2326: Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer William “Bill” Mulder (Ret.) Transition Improvement Act of 2019 (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2116: Global Fragility Act (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2480: Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (19 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 624: Promoting Transparent Standards for Corporate Insiders Act (189 R Votes)H.R. 31: Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (21 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 115: Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 133: United States-Mexico Economic Partnership Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2181: Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 (17 R Votes)H.R. 4344: Investor Protection and Capital Markets Fairness Act (93 R Votes)H.R. 4360: VA Overpayment Accountability Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4771: VA Tele-Hearing Modernization Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4356: Protecting Families of Fallen Servicemembers Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 3526: Counter Terrorist Network Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 3691: TRANSLATE Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2852: Homebuyer Assistance Act of 2019 (192 R Votes)H.R. 542: Supporting Research and Development for First Responders Act (179 R Votes)H.R. 1892: Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Technical Corrections Act of 2019 (186 R Votes)H.R. 1414: FinCEN Improvement Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 995: Settlement Agreement Information Database Act of 2019 (195 R Votes)H.R. 1063: Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 449: Pathways to Improving Homeland Security at the Local Level Act (183 R Votes)H.R. 1617: KREMLIN Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1381: Burn Pit Registry Enhancement Act (187 R Votes)H.R. 1309: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (32 R Votes)H.R. 1632: Southeast Asia Strategy Act (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 835: Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act of 2019 (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 7: Paycheck Fairness Act (7 R Votes)H.R. 758: Cooperate with Law Enforcement Agencies and Watch Act of 2019 (186 R Votes)H.R. 1830: National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin Act (88 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 36: Combating Sexual Harassment in Science Act of 2019 (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 277: ASCEND Act of 2019 (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4162: GI Bill Planning Act of 2019 (187 R Votes)H.R. 3246: Traveling Parents Screening Consistency Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2229: First Responders Passport Act of 2019 (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 748: Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019 (189 R Votes)H.R. 1649: Small Business Development Center Cyber Training Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1876: Senior Security Act of 2019 (172 R Votes)H.R. 450: Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act of 2019 (191 R Votes)H.R. 221: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act (185 R Votes)H.R. 2385: To permit the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a grant program to conduct cemetery research and produce educational materials for the Veterans Legacy Program. (192 R Votes)H.R. 425: Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act (4 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 113: All-American Flag Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 263: To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge. (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 925: North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (12 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 737: Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act of 2019 (89 R Votes)H.R. 4029: Tribal Access to Homeless Assistance Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4300: Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3661: Patriotic Employer Protection Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3224: Deborah Sampson Act (177 R Votes)H.R. 4334: Dignity in Aging Act of 2019 (14 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4067: Financial Inclusion in Banking Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2514: Coordinating Oversight, Upgrading and Innovating Technology, and Examiner Reform Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 777: Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019 (178 R Votes)H.R. 598: Georgia Support Act (19 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4406: Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act of 2019 (157 R Votes)H.R. 4405: Women’s Business Centers Improvements Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4387: To establish Growth Accelerator Fund Competition within the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes. (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3329: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5186 Benito Street in Montclair, California, as the “Paul Eaton Post Office Building”. (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1833: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 35 Tulip Avenue in Floral Park, New York, as the “Lieutenant Michael R. Davidson Post Office Building”. (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 4270: Placing Restrictions on Teargas Exports and Crowd Control Technology to Hong Kong Act (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3722: Joint Task Force to Combat Opioid Trafficking Act of 2019 (184 R Votes)H.R. 1595: Secure And Fair Enforcement Banking Act of 2019 (91 R Votes)H.R. 2327: Burma Political Prisoners Assistance Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1423: Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (2 R Votes)H.R. 2134: Helen Keller National Center Reauthorization Act of 2019 (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1941: Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act (12 R Votes)H.R. 3670: Short-Term Detention Standards Act (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 549: Venezuela TPS Act of 2019 (39 R Votes)H.R. 434: Emancipation National Historic Trail Study Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2397: American Manufacturing Leadership Act (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3196: Vera C. Rubin Observatory Designation Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2037: Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act of 2019 (178 R Votes)H.R. 2142: To amend the Small Business Act to require the Small Business and Agriculture Regulatory Enforcement Ombudsman to create a centralized website for compliance guides, and for other purposes. (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 677: 21st Century President Act (40 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1988: Protecting Affordable Mortgages for Veterans Act of 2019 (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2515: Whistleblower Protection Reform Act of 2019 (181 R Votes)H.R. 2109: BRAVE Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2476: Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019 (18 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1237: COAST Research Act of 2019 (7 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2333: Support for Suicide Prevention Coordinators Act (6 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2340: FIGHT Veteran Suicides Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 753: Global Electoral Exchange Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1437: Securing Department of Homeland Security Firearms Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1594: First Responder Access to Innovative Technologies Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 920: Venezuela Arms Restriction Act (5 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1477: Russian-Venezuelan Threat Mitigation Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1112: Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019 (3 R Votes)H.R. 8: Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (8 R Votes)H.R. 507: Put Trafficking Victims First Act of 2019 (189 R Votes)H.R. 66: Route 66 Centennial Commission Act (171 R Votes)H.R. 428: Homeland Security Assessment of Terrorists’ Use of Virtual Currencies Act (191 R Votes)H.R. 56: Financial Technology Protection Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 676: NATO Support Act (149 R Votes)H.R. 328: Hack Your State Department Act (170 R Votes)H.R. 247: Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 136: Federal Intern Protection Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 135: Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act of 2019 (193 R Votes)H.R. 1615: Verification Alignment and Service-disabled Business Adjustment Act (19 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3504: Ryan Kules Specially Adaptive Housing Improvement Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1850: Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act of 2019 (34 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 617: Department of Energy Veterans’ Health Initiative Act (25 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2140: Preventing Child Marriage in Displaced Populations Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2045: To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish in the Department the Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition Administration, and for other purposes. (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1812: Vet Center Eligibility Expansion Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 353: To direct the Secretary of State to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization, and for other purposes. (4 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1847: Inspector General Protection Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2066: DHS Intelligence Rotational Assignment Program Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1589: CBRN Intelligence and Information Sharing Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 1122: Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019 (168 R Votes)H.R. 974: Federal Reserve Supervision Testimony Clarification Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1064: To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow whistleblowers to disclose information to certain recipients. (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1065: Social Media Use in Clearance Investigations Act of 2019 (168 R Votes)H.R. 389: Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Rewards Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1306: Federal Disaster Assistance Coordination Act (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 205: Protecting and Securing Florida’s Coastline Act of 2019 (22 R Votes)H.R. 759: Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas Equal and Fair Opportunity Settlement Act (12 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1307: Post-Disaster Assistance Online Accountability Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 335: South Florida Clean Coastal Waters Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 988: NEAR Act of 2019 (4 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1704: Championing American Business Through Diplomacy Act of 2019 (177 R Votes)H.R. 1199: VA Website Accessibility Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 565: AMIGOS Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 3537: Veteran Entrepreneurship Training Act of 2019 (196 R Votes)H.R. 886: Veteran Treatment Court Coordination Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2513: Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (25 R Votes)H.R. 1146: Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act (4 R Votes)H.R. 281: Ensuring Diverse Leadership Act of 2019 (3 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1331: Local Water Protection Act (117 R Votes)H.R. 1716: Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2019 (6 R Votes)H.R. 1921: Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2019 (168 R Votes)H.R. 615: Refugee Sanitation Facility Safety Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 5: Equality Act (8 R Votes)H.R. 312: Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act (47 R Votes)H.R. 2502: Transparency in Federal Buildings Projects Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 596: Crimea Annexation Non-recognition Act (195 R Votes)H.R. 1472: To rename the Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Nebraska, as the Homestead National Historical Park. (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 499: Service-Disabled Veterans Small Business Continuation Act (194 R Votes)H.R. 1424: Fallen Warrior Battlefield Cross Memorial Act (22 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1775: Notice to Airmen Improvement Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 4407: SCORE for Small Business Act of 2019 (171 R Votes)H.R. 3694: Helping Families Fly Act of 2019 (8 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2613: Advancing Innovation to Assist Law Enforcement Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 97: Rescuing Animals With Rewards Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 2744: USAID Branding Modernization Act (186 R Votes)H.R. 3050: Expanding Investment in Small Businesses Act of 2019 (189 R Votes)H.R. 2002: Taiwan Assurance Act of 2019 (20 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1235: MSPB Temporary Term Extension Act (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 769: Counterterrorism Advisory Board Act of 2019 (186 R Votes)H.R. 192: Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 2162: Housing Financial Literacy Act of 2019 (1 R cosponsor, Voice Voted)H.R. 752: Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 202: Inspector General Access Act of 2019 (2 R cosponsors, Voice Voted)H.R. 1760: Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability Act (R sponsor, voice voted)H.R. 347: Responsible Disposal Reauthorization Act of 2019 (R sponsor, voice voted)H.R. 3494: Damon Paul Nelson and Matthew Young Pollard Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2018, 2019, and 2020 (171 R votes)H.R. 2539: Strengthening Local Transportation Security Capabilities Act of 2019 (167 R votes)H.R. 1037: Banking Transparency for Sanctioned Persons Act of 2019 (1 R sponsor, voice voted)H.R. 1388: Lytton Rancheria Homelands Act of 2019 (173 R votes)H.R. 498: Clean Up the Code Act of 2019 (R sponsor)H.R. 9: Climate Action Now Act (3 R votes)H.R. 1644: Save the Internet Act of 2019 (1 R vote)H.R. 1060: BUILD Act (1 R sponsor, voice voted)H.R. 91: Columbia River In-Lieu and Treaty Fishing Access Sites Improvement Act (171 R votes)H.R. 582: Raise the Wage Act (3 R votes)H.R. 1088: FIRST Act (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 255: Big Bear Land Exchange Act (R sponsor voice vote)H.R. 1663: Foundation of the Federal Bar Association Charter Amendments Act of 2019 (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 3996: VA Design-Build Construction Enhancement Act of 2019 (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 1496: Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2019 (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 2589: Unifying DHS Intelligence Enterprise Act (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 241: Bank Service Company Examination Coordination Act of 2019 (R sponsor)H.R. 2609: DHS Acquisition Review Board Act of 2019 (191 R votes)H.R. 2590: DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act of 2019 (179 R votes)H.R. 1947: To amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt transfers of funds from Federal agencies to the Department of Veterans Affairs for nonprofit corporations established under subchapter IV of chapter 73 of such title from certain provisions of t (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 1313: Transit Security Grant Program Flexibility Act (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 317: Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Land Affirmation Act of 2019 (R sponsor, voice vote)H.R. 297: Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians Restoration Act of 2019 (173 R votes)H.R. 190: Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Businesses Act of 2019 (188 R votes)H.R. 4863: United States Export Finance Agency Act of 2019 (13 R votes)H.R. 1373: Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act (9 R votes)H.R. 3525: U.S. Border Patrol Medical Screening Standards Act (2 R votes)H.R. 3239: Humanitarian Standards for Individuals in Customs and Border Protection Custody Act (1 R vote)H.R. 2722: SAFE Act (1 R vote)H.R. 6: American Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (7 R votes)H.R. 840: Veterans’ Access to Child Care Act (178 R votes)H.R. 790: Federal Civilian Workforce Pay Raise Fairness Act of 2019 (29 R votes)H.R. 4860: Crowdfunding Amendments Act (R 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So I dare you Trump fans to refute this and make the false claim again that the House of Representatives isn’t looking out for the well-being of the American people. INCLUDING YOURSELVES!!!Sources: Search Bills in Congress and You know that trainload of hundreds of bills Senate Republicans have blocked? Here's a linked list

It depends on your social, educational, and family background.Life will be agonizing if you a 30 something, leading a celibate life and is at odds with people around you, in terms of your views pertaining to marriage, children, solitude, retirement and death.At best, those people think you are overreaching yourself by setting your standard too high. For instance, the old massage therapist in my community deliberately repeated the same question about my “boyfriend” three times even though I tried very hard to be evasive about this question, who wound up making the self-complacent remark that, I think, has massaged his bruised ego deriving from the fact that his incompetent son’s wife had allegedly abandoned this family years ago: “your standard is way too high.”At worst, some even go so far as to bash you as if you were leading a sordid life disconnected with the rest of the society. I once saw several Chinese female teachers in my office at the age of around 28 killing their time after class by searching their former supervisor’s microblog pictures with her newlywed husband, and poking fun at her flash marriage when she was 33 years old. The Chinese version of quora, Zhihu, is overflowing with people of their likes, whose favorite pastime is to write posts about the “headstrong” and “pathetic” “old woman” in their companies, even after they had had “a blast” in the dinner parties together. I hope that their colleagues will never find this persona of them out: the same person who showed “respect” or provide “kind” suggestions for her personal choice in the day is busy vilifying her on the Internet for having a distinct lifestyle.That’s why I intentionally isolate myself from my colleagues in the workplaces by locking myself in the language lab alone or finding a classroom to nap at noon, and feigning illness when there are activities to attend. As a matter of fact, I was offered the chances to travel to nearby provinces for free by the college I used to work in, but I declined to travel with my colleagues for fear of the gossips this kind of intimacy might incur.There are also people, ranging from the matchmaking companies to the artificial insemination agencies, who are eager to take advantage of the restive “leftover women” like me. So, I have narrated a real story of a Chinese female ph.D from the news I read 6 years ago many times to my mom to inform her of the dire consequences if she urges me to get married simply for the sake of a child on a weekly basis. (This is of little avail, but I trust the power of repetition.)In the picture below, Yang Guo saw her dad for the first time, after she vanished for a year, during which her 70-year-old dad spent all his savings, a total of 100,000 RMB, traveling across the nation to inquire the passers-by of his daughter’s whereabouts with her pictures and uploading her personal information to various websites, after he was informed by the college his daughter worked in of her disappearance one day in 2012.He called her by cell phone, but it was turned off. When he arrived at the college, the school showed him a printed resignation letter and told him that his daughter cut off all the links with the college after she submitted this letter to the personnel department. Afterwards, he went to the apartment she had bought, only to find it sold to a new owner.After traveling around aimlessly for a year, he received a phone call from his nearby police station in Chongqing one day, when he was meant to look for his daughter in Beijing in June, 2013, which informed him of the location of a tramp who resembled his daughter.The old father shed tears when narrating the story.To his astonishment, a pregnant woman in a yellow T-shirt with unkempt hair was squatting at ground level and picking up dirty biscuits left by others. Ignoring her father’s presence, she didn’t even look up when he called her name. Overwhelmed by grief, he knelt down before her, shaking her shoulders, in the hope of awakening her, but she reacted with screaming and scratching him.This stench and filth of this homeless woman contrasted sharply with the demure and learned daughter with a doctorate from a well-known medical school in Sichuan province.Fortunately, despite having been diagnosed as having schizophrenia by the doctors, she gave birth to a healthy baby 25 days later and was taken by her father back to their home.Given the intermittent seizures of nervous breakdown and the fact that she tends to brush him off, Dr. Yang’s father had to make inferences of her experience in the past year on his own, in light of entries of her journal, text messages from her cell phone, and some intact receipts from the hospitals and companies in her suitcase, which shed light on what had happened to her in Jiangxi, Shenzhen, Thailand and Chongqing. Together with the interview of a reporter who disguised himself as a social worker to avoid her overreaction, we can piece together an uncanny experience of her from a respectable college teacher to a homeless and pregnant woman in the street.Her father playing her cello in the hope of awakening her.After graduation from the medical school in 2007 as a 30-year-old ph.D, she went to work in a college located in Jiangxi Province. Despite her exceptional academic achievement, the dreary life in the college without any beloved ones has prompted her to find something to fill her void. As a result, she joined a QQ group which was dominated by female ph.Ds, who thought along the same lines when it comes to the males: most men are irredeemable underperformers with inferior degrees, characters, and salaries. They are unanimous in finding solace in their own children rather than in dubious men, because they think only their descendants can genuinely love them (I think they should cast the same doubt on their future children as they should on the males.)This scheme might sound radical and not very viable to women like me, because I know the difficulties of growing up as a single-family child, but it was nevertheless edifying and persuasive to her, especially when she had just been severely frustrated by a recent break-up with a womanizer. After all, it was her first relationship but wound up finding him already married after two years. Obviously, he exhausted all her credit of men and served to stimulate an unexpected twist in her melancholic plot of life.One day, a link of a company in Shenzhen she saw in this QQ group expedited her plan, which claims to provide tube baby service for would-be mothers like her. Dr. Yang promptly made a call to consult and headed for Shenzhen to sign the contract. Shortly after her trip, she quit her job and became disconnected from her father without further ado.A contract found in her luggage indicates that she has shelled out a fortune for the artificial insemination service (about 20,000 dollars) in Thailand and returned to mainland after confirmation of her pregnancy.It was in 2013, a pregnant woman needed the requisite Birth Approval Certificate to give birth，which was abolished in 2016 to increase the birth rate. Without legal marriage, she wrestled with this thorny issue both in Jiangxi and Chongqing, only to be faced with her second fiasco in life. Cornered in a dilemma, she dreaded calling her father for fear of potential abortion, so she found a nearby hotel to live in. Even though she was eligible and applied for positions in the local pharmaceutical companies, the dismissal was inevitable because of her pregnancy reactions. The lack of care and nutrition resulted in the signs of miscarriage, but she was reluctant to return to her original workplace for the medical insurance. After all, unwed pregnancy is deemed as a social stigma. Consequently, she paid dearly for the service in a private hospital and ended up penniless after a month.The Birth Approval CertificateThe financial woes and the resultant mental pressure eventually transformed her from a refined professional to a tramp, with a fetus in her womb, whose father’s identity remains unknown.After she returned from the hospital to the humble apartment （about 30 square meters）of her father’s with the newborn, introspection has become a daily routine for her 71-year-old father, even though little can be done to redress the situation.He recalled the upbringing of his daughter and blamed everything on himself, reasoning that her introverted disposition derives from his undue emphasis on her studies, which in turn led to her incompetence in social networking. He attempted to introduce several young men to her when she was pursuing her Master’s Degree, but she was repelled by their lack of knowledge or common topics.This trend was reversed when she told her father that she found a boyfriend by herself, who was a project manager and a ph.D too. But, not until her graduation did she find that he had already married and belied his marital status for two years. Her plan to find a husband had thus been shelved.Despite many parallels between us: old and single outcast, I’m the antithesis of her in most regards, so, hopefully, my dissection of our distinctions can shed some light on your understanding of the modern Chinese women.The first difference lies in our resilience. I had to bear the brunt of my dad’s anger, my peer’s bias, and my mom’s criticism ever since 1990, so my grief would give way to energy after a brief respite from either my father’s physical abuse or my peer’s derision. After a sequence of failures and impediments to my original plans, I have been accustomed to a life of constant suffering and momentary relief.Frustration doesn’t kill people, but overprotection will. Ever since my dad renounced his custody and attempted to send me to Xinjiang, where my uncle and his Uyghur wife dwelled, my mom’s credibility has been greatly undermined because she showed her indifference by asking her elder sister to adopt me, instead of raising me on her own. When none of my relatives showed their interest in adopting me, this plan was shelved and the tension at my home heightened, since driving me out of his home was key to his new marriage. In the meantime, keeping me at bay is essential to my mom’s happy and ostentatious life with her boyfriends, be they rich or poor, in a city 7 hours’ drive from where I was. This was how I have become estranged from both of them since my primary school days and how I started to make every single decision on my own.So, as opposed to my peers, I’m much more prudent, sensitive, and constantly on guard against potential threats that will entangle me in calamities. For instance, I used to be invited to several QQ and WeChat groups over the last decade, and I discerned who was a shady character and who was a charlatan very quickly. When an alleged “businessman” claimed to have been purchasing over 20 apartments in a 18th-tier city in Guangxi (several villas in Thailand) and invited us to follow suit, I saw a woman constantly responding to him, very positively and I began to cast doubt on the identity of all of people in this wechat group. Before long, I quit this group, just as I did in another QQ group years ago when the Chinese women in that group told me they either had no idea of what kind of job to look for in the U.S. after they burn one million RMB in the graduate school or were interested in teaching in American public schools.In a nutshell, I can detect imbeciles, fraudsters, hypocrites and the mentally ill very quickly. After all, my dad used to send me to a lady’s home to stay with her daughters when he went on business trip for a month, without telling me that the lady’s husband had been actually on medication for years because of his mental illness (both of my parents knew this, because the lady’s husband was my mom’s colleague.) Well, I didn’t know this until he began to yell at me while having lunch together. Obviously, nobody told him my family paid for my meals at his home.My ability to tell the good from the bad, the honest from the dishonest, the kind from the evil, derives from my parents’ decade-long reckless, ruthless, and idiotic behaviours. They are walking encyclopedia of “people you should never learn from”.So, yes, my parents taught me many life lessons, in ways you can’t imagine.They taught me how formidable rearing child can be. Sorry, I mean rearing me by myself.They taught me how grueling adjusting one’s mental state can be, after yelling at me and telling me to get lost from THEIR homes. Self-reflection has been my homework since age 7.They taught me how important we should espouse our own thoughts, because their distorted values from Cultural Revolution might send me to hell. I never listened to them when we are at odds with each other. Frankly speaking, they never engaged in any important activities of mine: choosing which high school to attend, which major to study in college, which college to attend, which career to pursue.If they ever did anything voluntarily to participate in my life, that would be my dad’s unwillingness to pay for my tuition fee for primary school and my mom’s straightforward response that I should pay for my medical operation and my graduate school.So, it’s very unlikely for a Chinese woman like me, with such empirical experience, to resort to such risky plan of the artificial insemination in another country, without adequate researches and funding. Provided for and protected by her father for most of her life, Dr. Yang might be unaware of the severity of running out of money, because her parents have never cut off the financial resources like my mom did in the last semester of my college. As a result, she has never been pitched into emergencies and desperation, which can teach us a lesson of life: money is of utmost importance because it counteracts many insidious factors leading to our descent into the abyss.I know I should show mercy to her, but I think it’s more important that we should alert ourselves to creating any misadventure for our beloved ones. Her father is a feeble elder with a pension of 1800, so a baby might be a real blessing for most Chinese families, but definitely not his.Even though her mental health has been restored to a semblance of normality and the society members showed their compassion in various ways, the pressure hasn’t been mitigated, considering the fact that her father is already 77 years old in 2019.Simply put, what plagues most Chinese people is their definition of a meaningful life, and being a ph.D doesn't qualify a person for a better understanding of it.Many Chinese women misunderstand love as something deriving from the outside world(parents, children, husband), while losing sight of the greatest love originating from themselves.Only I can fully understand myself, so I have been revelling in my own love for decades.I don't look to others for love or happiness.p.s. for some narrow-minded people:my last line didn't refer to my introverted personality or my inability to “open to”others.I am super easygoing and sociable in workplace if I WANT.I was referring to the importance of enjoying solitude, as opposed to looking to marriage or kids as the mere source of happiness.

Found this masterpiece in subreddit r/india. I'm simply copy pasting it after duly taking permission of author.It's quite a long writeup (really long); ignore if you don't have time.How our education system failed usBack in 2009, prepping for ICSE class 10. Everyone told me, 90% is the benchmark. I was told, it was the biggest exam of my life. Too immature back then, I studied hard, never saw the light of the sun and ignored all, studied as much as i could do. And then I appeared for the exam, and passed with some 92.xxx(almost 95 if best of 5 etc was done).What changed? Nothing. As the results were declared, it was like, "meh, class 10 is nothing. Your talent is actually tested in IITJEE". Medical was never my cup of tea. Yet I was forced to take Biology by my parents. Beta, you can appear for medical too they said.Study hard. Very hard. YOU MUST SUCCEED. TOLD MY PEERS. Yeah, and I did study.Back in those days, we used to have Regional Mathematics Olympiads. That was the gateway to INMO and next IMO. My school didn't want to give me a pass to appear in the RMO exam, and it was after a lot of firefighting that I was able to appear for the exam, all on my own self. School used to send nominated candidates those days, 6 of them.When the results came on 26th December, 2010, my heart sank. In spite of a pretty good exam, my name wasnt there in the list. I cried. It was my first acquaintance with failure. I never knew the surprise that was awaiting me. That evening, I got a call from ISI Calcutta, yeah I had been selected. How I failed to see my name in that list, I still dunno. But that small and short experience of failure was going to come pretty handy.I was always good in maths. But boy, you are just a piece of shit if you aren't a Btech. I failed in IITJEE. And yeah, I saw the faces change.Teachers poured scorn on me (lets accept it, I am not the coolest of guys to be with. A cocksure cully kind of a guy. So, yeah, mostly lonely and having a rebel kind of attitude. But these were the same men, who praised me only 3 months back when I was the lone guy cracking RMO.), Those who cracked JEE, after as if they were super intelligent. A guy with whom I had been best friends with, made it through. But after that, he seldom kept contact. They acted as if they were busy, but I could see through their thinly veiled VANITY.I made it to one of the better NITs. But I could realize something. That for all that we LEARN, it fails to teach us certain basic aspects of life. If not, then why are we so lonely? If not, then why are people, running haywire, to meet their insatiable aspirations? Aspirations? My foot. When was the last time I did something I truly wanted? NEVER. THERE WAS MY ANSWER.When I tried surfacing these doubts to my parents, they laughed at it, with scorn, contempt and a bit of vain sympathy. I could feel that. They told me, that's how life is meant to be. Yeah, true maybe. MORE MARKS. MORE CGPA. MORE MONEY. But it never told us, that our prime responsibility was only one thing. TO QUESTION THE STATUS QUO. TO ASK WHY IS IT THAT AM SO EMPTY INSIDE? WHY THE FUCK ARE THINGS SO BLOODY WRONG?During my college days, I thought it would change. But it was all so the same. The more I wanted Respite, the lesser it seemed plausible. Money, marks, bloody numbers, jobs, and yet so less people interested in LEARNING. When I was trying my hands at Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest, I found it difficult to get a partner, given it had no leverage on marks. Those who would latter help, would do it, solely so that the future publication at Elsevier would have their names on it, and they could use it for their SoP while applying for MS. Nobody was doing it for love, for purpose.Rewind, 2015. I had made up my mind. I had to go for MS. But then, Lord Giveth. Lord Taketh. My Grandmom, had kidney failure. My uncle, being an agricultural labourer, failed to fulfill her medical expenses. Our financial conditions became pretty bad. Pretty pretty bad. So, my parents asked me to shelve plans, at least an year. So, priorities changed. You must get a job. Campussing. Job. Your life will change. You will have FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE.Yo, I did land jobs. Not one, two of them. People told Jio was going to be the next big thing in telecom. I joined Jio. Life changed? Haha, yeah. SHIT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. THINGS THAT WOULD CHANGE MY LIFE FOREVER. AN ETHNOCENTRIC, EGOTIST self , that treated all "Non Science" background people as idiots was going to change. I was going to change my way of looking at life.Jio, 2016. Merry making, joining Parties, flurry of Facebook posts. In 3 weeks time, I was in charge of a group of guys, who were a bit of trashcan to handle.(they said they were INTERNS, and my team said to extract as much of testing as I could from them). But I told you, I was always one cocksure cully to deal with. My first few days, with those guys, they were the most gentle guys around. My manager Mr xyz. (with a name, starting with a V word, that's a common meme term these days, related to Acche Din), started pressuring me to get them to raise a 1000 test cases a day, regarding connectivity issues and that too with a 3 member team. One fine morning I found these guys, foul mouthing this man and arguing with the HR, a lady, (and by far the worst crook I met till this day). My manager had lied to me. These guys werent INTERNS. They were given a Designation. Assistant manager. I had found it earlier. But I didn't Question. No. I DIDNT. BECAUSE, THAT WAS NOT EXPECTED OF ME. NEITHER IN NY CHILDHOOD. NOR MY ADULTHOOD.These people (later I found an absolutelot of so called assistant managers) had not been paid wages for 2 months. They were not given an official contract letter. Everytime they asked, they were told they would be confirmed after medical tests report would be received. (And medicals happened in Reliance campus itself). They shared with me their frustrations. I felt very bad. The worst. I asked myself, what am I doing? Isn't it my moral responsibility to ask for these people? My brain told me, no, dont. Shit will hit the fan. Ah, those days of moral dichotomy. And then one day, these people were asked to leave, since they weren't upto the organizational standards. And no. They weren't paid any wages for 4 months. They left, but I asked myself, what kind of a supreme Douchebag fails to take stand for those people with whom he spends 9 hours a day. I did my undercover sting, and I found some 73 people, who were undergoing the same fate.That day I made my mind. I will question. I gathered all the courage in my heart, and I went for lunch, took the exact1 opposite chair to that of Mr. xyz. I asked him, that why were these poor brats not paid wages? (The new team assigned to me, were undergoing the same fate. However unlike the previous ones, these people believed that Reliance wouldn't dump them). He replied, that the company will decide. A few more questions, and I could see that he was getting uncomfortable. Peddling lies. Finally he told me what I knew he would tell me, tumhe apna tankha tym pe milta hain naa, chup chap apna kaam karo.I would very well realize, that my tym here was coming to an end. (Regarding Mr XYZ, this man was a typical specimen of a NIT and IIM passout blockhead. Such was his Knowledge that he told there was 1 high court and 24 supreme courts in our country in our intro session. I laughed. But most others applauded. Maybe that's where WE ARE COLLECTIVELY going nowadays). I could see the world changing. I prepared for AAI and IBPS( sbi ka form khatam ho chuka tha, and my peers told, psu will be better). One fine evening I was called by the lady HR. I was told, my performances weren't being good enough and I should take this as a warning. I slapped my notice period the next day, with a 1000 word letter to mr. ABC who was the VP those days. And tell you what, I was told that I can be relieved before completing my Notice. I didbt pay a damn, coz I had made it to AAI ATC. Medical were pending. Bade adieu to Navi Mumbai.Education FAILED to teach me that I must Question. Experience taught me otherwise. Not that I reaped any Praise or Reward, (in fact I was looked down upon with scorn and anger by all) but the fact that I tried to question, gave me confidence. Confidence that I might Fail, but it doesn't necessarily mean that I am wrong.Aai atc, medical took place. I was to receive the WORST NIGHTMARE I had to. I was rejected. I came to know I was Color Blind. All of a sudden, I had to make peace with the fact, that I did not have a job. My brains told me, that had I not started that January BS, I would have remained in my place, cozy and fine. All of a sudden, I could see everything going down the drain. I had problems recognizing other colors but blue previously, but no one cared. Neither did I. I thought my Relationship would end too, it was 4 years old then. I confessed to my girlfriend, and, all of a sudden I was looking at an uncertain future, with pretty less number of jobs (given in India, you dont end up with good core jobs in PSUs if you are Color Blind).Fortunately I had also made it through IBPS. April 1, I felt so lucky. But Buddha had said, all fortune is the source of some misfortune. Before joining banks, I was actually looking at what path I can choose. I was looking at my self, and asking what can I do, what suits my nature. It was here that I found Civil services, something that I had looked upon with so much contempt and disregard before.Yeah, I want to make positive changes. Yeah, I want to make this place a better one. Yeah, I want to raise my voice against stuff. It ticked a lot of boxes. And tbh, its not possible to change the system if you don't know it well. To make a software better you need to know it. Even to hack it. I shelved my plans for MS.2016, I joined one of the more famed PSU banks in India. One of the big 3 (excluding SBI). Life was joy and bliss and innocence. I was in the recovery section. Shit hit the fan once more. I found out that one of the branches passed fictitious MSME loans (mostly of the order of 4.xxx lakhs, because less than 5 means no investigation). These loans never had any recovery. And CGTMSE coverage was used to recover stuff. I reported. My DM promised to investigate. My manager told me that the person used to be in Disciplinary Cell (the cell that metes out penalties to employees for stuff) and that her husband was DM/AGM in our bank. And yeah. Once again the ground below shattered . Within a days notice, I was transferred to Lawngtlai.Another day. Another resignation. This wasn't due to the fact that I was tired or anything. I was preparing for UPSC, and it was just 2 more months left for prelims. They were already delaying my NOC etc. ( as per this bank rules you need to inform the bank if you are appearing anywhere, that's what the HR told me). All this was taking a toll on my prep.I resigned. Prelims 2017 wasn't the easiest. But I didn't fare too badly. Given the shitstorm I underwent. Results came. I failed. By 2 marks.Today, I stand, Voluntarily Unemployed. But I can tell you people few things I learned, from my experience. That our education fails to teach usIts okay to FAIL. We all must FAIL. Accept it. Move on. Our education speaks so much about success. It cherry picks the stories of success. But it fails to tell you that 90% of us will Fail in our goal.Have a purpose. A life without purpose is a meaningless life. I see these people waking up everyday going to jobs. They never ask why they are doing it. In their private counters they accept that they are doing it for money. They have MONETISED their lives.QUESTION. Insurrection is the bloody most supreme of all duties said Lafayette, and it holds true everytime. Everywhere. QUESTION. Your own self. Why? Why you are doing something that you are doing.Enjoying your life and being happy is a choice. Yes. You want to be happy? Enjoy cherish and value all that you have. You have much more than you actually think you have.Invest in human relationships. That's the best thing to do. Talk with your parents. Your girlfriend. The unconditional support these people have provided me, in spite of all the trouble I have been giving them, i can only be indebted to them.Sorry for such a long post. Wrote it all on mobile. Actually, had a lot of free time after prelims, so, decided to share the story of my life. There's so much more left to share. Thank you for audience.I am not linking the author's profile as he wants to remain anonymous.Thoughts?