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Posted by Congress Watcher on July 5, 2008 at 8:49 pm · Filed under House campaigns, House legislation, Personalities, Podcasts, Senate campaigns, Senate legislation
Al Franken isn’t just a candidate for the United States Senate. He’s a former writer, and stand up comic, and talk show host. Al Franken knows how to talk.
So why is it, with two and a half weeks since the House of Representatives made the text of the FISA Amendments Act available and then rushed it through to passage less than 24 hours later, Al Franken still hasn’t told voters whether he supports the proposed law? Why is it that, with the United States Senate scheduled to vote on the FISA Amendments Act this coming Tuesday, Al Franken still says nothing?
Dan Maffei, running for the House of Representatives in the 25th congressional district in upstate New York, doesn’t have the big money connections Al Franken has. He doesn’t have the kind of experience Al Franken has speaking in public.
Yet, Dan Maffei has had the courage Al Franken hasn’t had. Dan Maffei has spoken out against the unjust and unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act. Maffei writes,
“National security is essential to protecting our freedoms, but that doesn’t mean we must sacrifice those very same freedoms because the Bush administration fails to respect the Constitution. Granting amnesty to telecom companies would set a precedent that would allow others to arbitrarily ignore the constitution. No one should be above the law in America. Because of this I would not have supported the recent legislation.”
Thanks, Mr. Maffei, for doing what politicians like Al Franken won’t. Thanks for telling Americans where you stand.
Listen to the That’s My Congress podcast on the difference between these two Democrats.
Posted by Congress Watcher on June 23, 2008 at 10:34 pm · Filed under Personalities, Podcasts
Bizarre is the world of North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx, a member of the kooky fringe of the U.S. House of Representatives. Last week, Congresswoman Foxx took to the floor of the House to announce that: “What is a problem are high gas prices brought to us by a failed Democratically controlled Congress, failed Democratically controlled Congress, a do-nothing-to-reduce-gas-prices Democratically controlled Congress!”
The Democratically-controlled Congress is to blame for his gasoline prices? Let’s consider the basis for that statement.
Oil prices started rising around 2001 - with the Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. They continued to rise, doubling in just a few years - with the Republicans in control of Congress.
Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress since the beginning of 2007 - just under one and a half years.
How is it that Virginia Foxx believes that the Democratic majority in Congress managed to cause the price of crude oil to rise years before it actually came into being?
Representative Foxx never explained that. She just marched back to her seat, proud of firing off a volley in service of the big oil corporations.
Our latest podcast begins with this story of Virginia Foxx and continues with a courageous speech given by Representative Earl Blumenauer about the despicable FISA Amendments Act.
Posted by Congress Watcher on June 21, 2008 at 6:28 am · Filed under House legislation, Personalities, Podcasts, Senate legislation
On Friday, we warned you about the impending vote on H.R. 6304 - the FISA Amendments Act. The FISA Amendments Act
- Allows physical searches of Americans homes and businesses without any search warrant or other evidence of a suspected crime.
- Allows George W. Bush to conduct massive widespread electronic spying against American citizens as they talk on the telephone, use the web, read email, and travel with GPS devices
- Gives retroactive immunity to telecommunications corporations that broke the law by helping George W. Bush spy against millions of Americans in secret
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which clearly forbids all such surveillance, is no longer in effect. The Bill of Rights is in tatters.
The first piece of bad news we gave you is that 105 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives betrayed their constituents and the Constitution - they voted in favor of the FISA Amendments Act.
Now we have even worse news: Barack Obama says that he will vote to support this attack on the Constitution when it comes up for a vote in the United States Senate next week. Furthermore, Obama pledged that he would keep the unconstitutional spying program against Americans going on if he is elected President. That’s exactly the opposite position that Barack Obama took during the primaries.
Barack Obama flip flops on the Constitution. I never thought I would see the day.
This is the theme of our downcast second podcast - and Barack Obama’s campaign should take note. It doesn’t matter if you carry the name of Democrat. You attack the freedoms guaranteed America in the Constitution, you lose our support.
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Posted by Congress Watcher on June 20, 2008 at 2:37 pm · Filed under All Articles, Podcasts, Site News
This podcast introduces the That’s My Congress audio podcast, explaining who we are and what we intend to do, what our focus on the United States Congress can include, and how we’re different from the Washington D.C. insider and political podcasts. We’re not corporate sponsored, and we don’t have the big financial backing of the journalistic establishment, but we do have the ability to look for the information.
Our introductory podcast.
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