Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress.
It gives the government and corporations the ability...
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http://vimeo.com/31100268
Just before Independence Day, Congress left Washington without extending unemployment benefits.
Since that terrible decision, the country has been hit with a wave of bad economic news.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/10/ED1D1EA5FP.DTL
Difficult choices are what serious politics is all about-the Obama administration and Congress face the toughest collection of such choices Washington has seen in years.
Stimulate the economy or cut spending? Halt deepwater drilling or permit drilling?
**Oh poor lamb! Didn't know that being President was so tough! Maybe because he never had a job!
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http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_farmer/2010/06/at_every_turn_another_tough_de.html#mode_smoref_digg
President Obama implored Congress to provide more aid to states and cities to blunt the devastating economic impact of budget cuts� by local governments that imperil the jobs of teachers, the police and other public employees.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/health/policy/13address.html
President Barack Obama, seeking to boost U.S. jobs in an election year, calls for Congress to pass a $30 billion package to aid small business lending that he hopes will lift hiring.
Congress may be making progress crafting new regulations for the financial-services industry, but it has yet to begin reforming two institutions that played a key role in the 2008 credit crisis�Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342604575222110918360260.html?mod=wsj_share_digg
President Obama said Wednesday that there may not be an appetite in Congress to deal with immigration immediately after going through a tough legislative year.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-04-28-Obama-immigration_N.htm
Congress is moving quickly to force Obama into blocking gasoline sales to Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
A US naval blockade is the only real way to enforce that. And from Iran's point of view, that means war.
The former president is getting more flak than Obama or Dems who control Congress.
It perhaps was not the endorsement President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress were looking for.Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist...
They're done.
For good, this time.Tonight, the House took Congress' final health care vote, when it passed a reconciliation bill fixing problems with the reforms that President Obama signed into law on Tuesday. The final tally was 220-207. The changes will take effect as soon as Obama signs the fixes package into law, which could come tomorrow.
Like many people, I have been following the Obama administration's preparation for the renewed debate on immigration reform in Congress, a debate that largely concerns Mexicans living in the U.S.
So when I read the tragic news about the murder of American consulate workers in Ciudad Juarez, there was an added resonance.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/25/davison.aviles.immigration.mexico/index.html
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday said insurer AIG's contracts to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses were "outrageous" and appealed to Congress to help recoup the payments.Geithner said Congress could help recover the "deeply irresponsible" bonuses by passing an Obama...
Toyota Motor Corp faced scrutiny from Congress over its biggest ever safety recall as investors, suppliers and consumers weighed the impact of an unprecedented halt in U.S. production by the No.1 automaker.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60R7GB20100129?rpc=64
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy during his State of the Union address on Wednesday night, news reports say.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/2010/01/obama-dont-ask-sotu/
Even if Democrats lose the special
election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress
may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called
reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPg2UfFaCh9c&pos=9
In a TV interview Monday, Steele said the party won't be regaining control of Congress in the mid-term elections this year.
And if there's a reason for that, it's that the Republicans "screwed up" after Ronald Reagan left office.
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http://rawstory.com/2009/01/steele-gop-screwed-up-reagan/
Dale Robertson, a Tea Party activist who operates TeaParty.org, is getting stung for an old photo taken at the Feb. 27, 2009 Tea Party in Houston in which he holds a sign reading Congress = Slaveowner, Taxpayer = Niggar.
After the ResistNet listerv promoted Liberty Concerts to be held by TeaParty.org, a source passed [...]
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http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader
As health care reform grinds through Congress, the list of those opposing it has grown, and a week ago Howard Dean was among them.
But now Dean says he's defected from the "Kill the Bill" caucus, telling Rachel Maddow, "To see the Republicans up there carrying on the way they are, I basically concluded that maybe we should just pass this thing."
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http://rawstory.com/2009/12/dean-now-supports-passage-of-senate-bill/
Hint to Republicans running for office in 2008.
Maybe you should think twice before going on national television and ranting about "anti-American" Democrats. As has been documented here, there, and everywhere across the political blogosphere, Rep. Michelle Bachman, R.-Minn., channeled Sen. Joe McCarthy on Hardball Friday night and called for the media to do a "penetrating expose" of "the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-
