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- Joe Wilson’s Odd Math On National Debt
- Time For The USA To Pull Out From Europe
- Will Cutting Retirement Funds Stop Lobbying By Former Members Of Congress?
- How Many Americans Would Dye For A Job?
- Bob Dold Sacrifices American Jobs For Foreign Fake Drugs
Silly Season And Serious Season In The U.S. House
Serious work by the U.S. House of Representatives was represented in some of the legislation introduced there yesterday. For example, the new bill H.R. 5749 would create a prohibition on the transfer of U.S. military goods and services to the governments of foreign countries that are found to be "engaging in gross violations of ...
Michael Grimm Taking Money In Private Cigar Club Tonight
Congressman Michael Grimm says that he is "honored to serve the residents of the 13th Congressional District of New York." The 13th district in New York consists of Staten Island and part of Brooklyn, but that's not where Representative Grimm will be serving tonight. The Sunlight Foundation reports that at 7:00 this evening, ...
Terrorists and Heart Disease: Who in Congress Focuses on the Real Harm?
It's not about harm. It's about hype.
According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, every year heart disease kills two hundred times more Americans than terrorist attacks killed in the peak year of 2001. In other years, heart disease deaths are hundreds of thousands of times more numerous than terrorism deaths. ...
The Anti-Gay Democrats Of the House of Representatives
This week, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to H.R. 5326, forbidding the President from directing the Department of Justice to resist the Defense of Marriage Act. It was a merely symbolic vote, because the Obama Administration is not using the Department of Justice to oppose the implementation of the Defense of Marriage ...
Jo Bonner Sacrifices Jobs To Red China
U.S. Congressman Jo Bonner likes to claim that he supports policies that will create jobs here in the United States of America. Yet, the truth is that just yesterday, Representative Bonner introduced 28 different pieces of legislation, each one written with the purpose of encouraging the importation of things that could be made right ...
Bob Dold, Why Do We Need To Import Placebos?
Yesterday in Congress, two bills were proposed, both by Representative Bob Dold, which would remove import fees for two pharmaceuticals products:
H.R. 5357. A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on placebos to be used in clinical trials for the drug ASP2408; to the Committee on Ways and Means.
H.R. 5358. A bill ...
Democrats Are Shocked That Boehner Opposes Same Sex Marriage… Um, Like Obama…
This afternoon, Brandon English, the Digital Director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sent out a breathless email declaring surprise that Spearker of the House John Boehner would oppose equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians. English wrote, "I was shocked to hear that Speaker John Boehner decided to use our tax dollars to intervene ...
Domestic Niobium Production Stunted By Suspended Import Fees
There's niobium in Nebraska. The latest estimate, released a little over a week ago, is that there is something like 19.3 million tons of the rare earth metal under the town of Elk Creek. That's enough to supply the entire planet's demand for niobium for two decades.
Niobium is an element, fairly high on ...
Howard Berman Busts American Jobs With Foreign Shopping Bag Bill
Politicians in Washington D.C. love to talk about their support for American jobs, but talk aside, this is the season for members of both houses of Congress to create special import loopholes that prevent job creation in the USA. The more things Americans buy from overseas, the fewer manufacturing jobs there are in the ...
If Power Is In Prayer And Not Congress, Why Does Congress Get All The Payoffs?
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are chosen to go to Washington D.C. to stand up for the people of their districts through legislative action. The scope of legislative action that Congress is assigned to undertake is strictly non-religious. The First Amendment of the Constitution, after all, clearly states, "Congress shall make ...