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Progressive Democratic Challenge Against Glenn Nye in 2010
Freshman U.S. Representative Glenn Nye has been working a dangerous strategy for gaining re-election in 2010. Elected in 2008 on the basis of grassroots support from progressive Democrats in Virginia's 2nd congressional district, Nye turned Blue Dog after the election, using his power to block progressive Democratic legislation such as health care reform and ...
Phil Gingrey Goes On Government Spending Spree
Last week, Congressman Phil Gingrey made a heated speech in which he warned that congressional Democrats are on a government "spending spree". He declared,
"America simply cannot afford another spending spree by this Democratic majority. There's a way to boost the economy without relying on all this irresponsible and unnecessary spending."
One might conclude from these ...
Mike Simpson Says Government Ought To Subsidize Free Enterprise
It's a Republican tenet of faith that free enterprise is always preferable to government action. Even though government of the USA is of the people, by the people, and for the people, Republicans put it down, saying that it's better to have programs that are by profit, for profit.
As Republican politicians promote this bit ...
Zach Wamp Wants To Build Government Church In Community With Scores Of Churches
Zach Wamp won't be wandering the halls of the U.S. House of Representatives for much longer. He's campaigning to become Governor of Tennessee in 2010, and is relinquishing his seat in Congress in order to do so.
Until 2011 comes around, however, Representative Wamp will continue to be active in congressional politics. So, it's ...
Neil Abercrombie, Set to Resign, Maintained Imperfect but Solid Progressive Record
How will progressive Americans react to the announcement that Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is resigning from the House of Representatives? Democrats seem to have little to fear: although a Republican, Congresswoman Pat Saiki, held Abercrombie's seat for four years in the late 1980s, she has been the only Republican to occupy a Hawaiian ...
History Matters In Iraq And Afghanistan
There was a casual sort of brushing off of the past from Congressman Walter Jones earlier this week. Discussing Afghanistan policy on the floor of the House of Representatives, Jones declared, "I do agree with Mr. Obama, the war should have always been Afghanistan and we should not have gone into Iraq, but that ...
Kucinich Prepares Congressional Override of Obama on Afghanistan
Many progressives in Congress have expressed their disapproval of President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the military occupation of Afghanistan instead of drawing the American presence there to a close. U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich is doing more than talking, however.
Kucinich is preparing to reassert congressional authority through a series of resolutions that would force ...
Did Massachusetts Democrats Embrace The Patriot Act?
It seems difficult at first to argue that yesterday's Democratic primary for the special election to succeed Senator Edward Kennedy was close. The winner, Martha Coakley, got 47 percent of the vote, and the next nearest candidate Mike Capuano, got just 28 percent.
However, the Not Coakley vote got the majority of votes. There ...
Cardin Gets it Right: Separate Abortion Riders Don’t Work
Most of the Senate debate on the afternoon of December 8 leading up to the rejection of the Nelson-Hatch Amendment was pretty predictable. The amendment itself, after all, was a near cookie-cutter copy of the Stupak Amendment that was passed earlier this month in the House of Representatives. Both amendments prohibit private health ...
Betty Sutton Challenged By Right Wing Democrat
Betty Sutton is not the most progressive member of the House of Representatives, but she does have a more progressive legislative record than some congressional Democrats. Apparently, that progressive record has bothered some Democrats in the 13th congressional district of Ohio, who would prefer to see a representative more like the Blue Dogs, who ...