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FIRE SAFETY
The economic stimulus bill passed by the House may help the Richmond Fire Department.
Chief Robert Creecy came to Washington last week to meet with Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., about incentives for owners of buildings to install fire sprinklers. Cantor said the economic stimulus bill’s provision to allow businesses the tax benefit of writing off half the cost of new purchases would apply to fire sprinkler installations.
Cantor has 89 cosponsors for a separate bill the Richmond fire department is pushing to add greater tax incentives for people who retrofit buildings with sprinklers.
“We’ll sprinkler our lawns; we’ll buy home theater systems; but we won’t sprinkler our homes,” Creecy said.
WAR CONTRACTS
Is Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., gearing up to do battle with President Bush? Webb took aim at the president from the Senate floor last week over wartime contracting.
President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization act Monday, which includes Webb’s plan to establish a commission to examine contracts issued during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the president included a signing statement in which he raised a red flag about the commission. Citing national security concerns, Bush said the commission could inhibit his duties as commander in chief.
Webb said the signing statement is a potential “impingement on the rights of the legislative body,” Webb said.
“I would think that these are the sorts of problems that this president would want to root out,” Webb said in his floor speech.
The commission is modeled after the Truman Commission, which was credited with saving $15 billion in government contracts during World War II.
NBA LEGEND
Earl “Big Cat” Lloyd, the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association, will be honored with a House resolution introduced by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.
The resolution recognizes Lloyd “for breaking the color barrier” in the NBA 58 years ago when he played for the Washington Capitols.
Lloyd, who grew up in Alexandria, Va., attended a segregated high school. He won a national championship with the Capitols in 1955, became the first African-American assistant coach in the NBA and was later the head coach of the Detroit Pistons.
He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.
--Neil H. Simon
The economic stimulus bill passed by the House may help the Richmond Fire Department.
Chief Robert Creecy came to Washington last week to meet with Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., about incentives for owners of buildings to install fire sprinklers. Cantor said the economic stimulus bill’s provision to allow businesses the tax benefit of writing off half the cost of new purchases would apply to fire sprinkler installations.
Cantor has 89 cosponsors for a separate bill the Richmond fire department is pushing to add greater tax incentives for people who retrofit buildings with sprinklers.
“We’ll sprinkler our lawns; we’ll buy home theater systems; but we won’t sprinkler our homes,” Creecy said.
WAR CONTRACTS
Is Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., gearing up to do battle with President Bush? Webb took aim at the president from the Senate floor last week over wartime contracting.
President Bush signed the National Defense Authorization act Monday, which includes Webb’s plan to establish a commission to examine contracts issued during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But the president included a signing statement in which he raised a red flag about the commission. Citing national security concerns, Bush said the commission could inhibit his duties as commander in chief.
Webb said the signing statement is a potential “impingement on the rights of the legislative body,” Webb said.
“I would think that these are the sorts of problems that this president would want to root out,” Webb said in his floor speech.
The commission is modeled after the Truman Commission, which was credited with saving $15 billion in government contracts during World War II.
NBA LEGEND
Earl “Big Cat” Lloyd, the first African American to play in the National Basketball Association, will be honored with a House resolution introduced by Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.
The resolution recognizes Lloyd “for breaking the color barrier” in the NBA 58 years ago when he played for the Washington Capitols.
Lloyd, who grew up in Alexandria, Va., attended a segregated high school. He won a national championship with the Capitols in 1955, became the first African-American assistant coach in the NBA and was later the head coach of the Detroit Pistons.
He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.
--Neil H. Simon