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Posts Tagged 'budget'

Cut the Budget? Cut War in Afghanistan.

Posted on April 7 2011 by Congress Watcher

Lynn Woolsey wonders why Congress isn’t cutting the war in Afghanistan instead of Medicare.

Walter Jones Links Afghanistan And Spending Cuts

Posted on April 6 2011 by Congress Watcher

Walter Jones explicitly discussed the hypocrisy of his Republican colleagues who are willing to institute draconian cuts on basic governmental programs, but push for the expansion of wildly expensive military programs and insist upon the continuation of the failed war in Afghanistan.

Holmes Norton Urges America To Go Nuke Free

Posted on April 3 2011 by Congress Watcher

Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced legislation that would require the elimination of all American nuclear weapons by 2020, redirect spending from nuclear weapons programs to domestic spending needs and move the United States toward a nuclear-free energy system.

Kucinich To Block Funding For Libyan War

Posted on March 23 2011 by Congress Watcher

Dennis Kucinich has begun crafting legislation to bring the Executive Branch back into accordance with the Constitution, in the form of a budgetary amendment that cuts off all funding to President Obama’s new war.

Protests Against Republican Cuts Erupt Across America

Posted on March 15 2011 by Congress Watcher

Progressive protests opposing Republicans’ imbalanced fiscal policy are larger than Tea Party protests were in 2009.

The Facts On Cowboy Poetry Spending

Posted on March 12 2011 by Congress Watcher

The Republicans in Congress aren’t targeting the the wars in Afghanistan. They’re targeting the Cowboy Poetry Festival instead. What does that tell you about the seriousness of Republican commitment to eliminate the federal budget deficit?

Russians Alarmed At Largest Ever US Military Budget

Posted on December 22 2010 by Congress Watcher

As Americans talk about a new START treaty, Russian media is discussing the passage of the largest American military budget ever.

Wasteful Pentagon Program Supported By Nearly Half of House Democrats

Posted on May 29 2010 by Congress Watcher

136 Democrats voted to cut funding for the F-35′s superfluous second engine. 115 Democrats voted to keep the funding in place.

War Is Making You Poor

Posted on May 22 2010 by Congress Watcher

The War Is Making You Poor Act would forbid that additional spending, and require the U.S. government to direct 90 percent of that money to pay for the federal tax on the first $35,000 of every American’s income. Even after this astounding reduction in federal income tax, 16 billion dollars in savings would be left over.

Todd Akin: Miserly to Jobless Americans, Wastrel for Useless Jets

Posted on April 18 2010 by Congressional Aid

Politics is all about priorities. On the motion to extend unemployment insurance benefits for laid-off Americans searching for jobs but unable to find jobs: Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri voted to deny Americans unemployment insurance. On the motion to cut funding for the F-22 fighter planes that were designed for fighting a Soviet air force [...]

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