It isn’t just historically inaccurate to create a public display claiming that World War II was a religious crusade. It’s also unconstitutional. The First Amendment to the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” H.R. 2070 is in violation of this part of the Bill of Rights.
This isn’t the first time that the idea of the Gandhi-King exchange has been proposed in Congress. Similar legislation was introduced in 2009 – when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the bill was not accepted and promoted by Democratic Party leadership.
Every one of the U.S. Representatives supporting H.R. 3051, legislation to ban the death penalty, are Democrats.
Representative Barbara Lee and the Out of Poverty Caucus sent a letter to Barack Obama yesterday, warning him not to go ahead with his plan to cut Medicaid and Medicare.
U.S. Representative Barbara Lee warns Americans that they are not safe – from the abuses of the Patriot Act.
Four members of the House of Representatives have signed a single letter of protest in which they commit to fight against Obama’s insertion of the United States in the civil war in Libya.
From John Conyers to Ron Paul, the co-sponsors of a resolution to require the end of the U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan War can be found in a list here.
Sensible new legislation would not create any big government system of nationally uniform preschool education. Rather, it would simply establish support for state governments in their efforts to provide year-round school that’s universally available, but not mandatory, for three, four and five year-olds.
A survey of recent comments by members of the House of Representatives against extra funding for the war in Afghanistan.
H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.
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