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Archive for December, 2009

Mary Bono Mack Parties For Money At The Capitol Hill Club

Posted on December 31 2009 by Congress Watcher

The theme of this second luncheon at the Capitol Hill Club was ““Specialty Physicians and Dentists” – and it came just as Republican members of Congress like Mary Bono Mack began a particularly strong push to resist efforts at meaningful health care reform.

Lobbying Firm Has Congressional Fundraisers At Its Offices

Posted on December 30 2009 by Congress Watcher

Nita Lowey has gone back 8 separate times over the last three years for more lobbyist-arranged money, courtesy of the Twenty-First Century Group.

More Lack Of Accountability Through ActBlue

Posted on December 30 2009 by Congress Watcher

Why wouldn’t Rosa DeLauro support single payer health care? You’d have to ask her yourself to get a good answer to that question. We can, however, look into DeLauro’s involvement in a scheme to provide special access to Democratic Party leaders for health care industry lobbyists at the very time that health care legislation was being crafted.

The Most Liberal Members of Congress: Rankings for 2009

Posted on December 30 2009 by Congressional Aid

Whenever a Democratic member of Congress is running for election, the most common line of attack by Republicans is to label that Representative or Senator as a “hardcore liberal,” or “one of the most liberal members of Congress.” In 2004, Senator John Kerry was unsurprisingly labeled as the “most liberal Senator” by the RNC, and [...]

Who in Congress Is Paid By Pawnbrokers

Posted on December 29 2009 by Congress Watcher

Huge numbers of politicians are indebted to a company that makes its profits from the vulnerability of Americans in economic distress. The following are among the biggest recipients of donations from Cash America.

Act Blue Giving To Insurance PAC?

Posted on December 28 2009 by Congress Watcher

Act Blue has made it possible for grassroots activists to make donations to Carolyn Maloney’s political action committee – Carolyn’s PAC. Carolyn’s PAC, in turn, does give to some Democratic candidates, but also has given to other sorts of recipients. Among them is the New York Life Insurance Company Political Action Committee, to which Carolyn’s PAC has given $5,000.

If Marriage Is Only A Religious Institution…

Posted on December 28 2009 by Congress Watcher

If Larry Gause’s change to marriage law were to be accepted, only religious Americans would be allowed to get married. No atheists could get married. Even people who don’t belong to a church might not be able to get married.

Drilling for Oil in Lee’s Summit, Missouri?

Posted on December 27 2009 by Congress Watcher

Drilling is taking place already under the status quo, which Representative Emanuel Cleaver supports. Yet, Jacob Turk accuses Cleaver of being “against drilling for U.S. oil in U.S. soil.”

The Christmas Prophecy of Ed Martin

Posted on December 27 2009 by Congress Watcher

Will the voters in Missouri’s 3rd congressional district fall on their knees, and hear the angel voices? Will they listen to Ed Martin’s new prophecy of the second coming of Jesus?

A Golden Mean Intimidates With Guns?

Posted on December 26 2009 by Congress Watcher

In the case of gun rights, what’s important is not to just find a theoretical middle ground, but to examine the Constitution and what it actually says. Nicholas Ivan Ladendorf doesn’t seem to be willing to take the time to educate himself about the role of the Constitution in establishing government policy.

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