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		<title>Why Is Judy Biggert Trying To Give Special Advantages To Chemical Importers?</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2012/04/26/why-is-judy-biggert-trying-to-give-special-advantages-to-chemical-importers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why isn't Judy Biggert encouraging American industry with American jobs in plants creating this chemical product right here in the USA?  Why is Biggert helping corporations avoid creating these jobs?]]></description>
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		<title>The Respectful Marc Carey on Barack Obama, the Communist Muslim with Pedophile Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Congressional candidate Marc Carey of Kentucky&#8217;s 4th District maintains a political blog called BluegrassBulletin, subtitled &#8220;a blog dedicated to honest and respectful comment on the political and cultural issues of our time.&#8221; On the morning of April 20, 2012, Marc Carey shared the following thoughts: &#8220;Of course you will hear very little about Obama&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Liberties Dominate Public Attention Toward Congress in January 2012</title>
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		<comments>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2012/01/29/civil-liberties-dominate-public-attention-toward-congress-in-january-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some quarters of Washington DC, people have grown fond of saying that all Americans care about is the economy. But take a look at the five congressional bills looked up most often by Americans during the week of January 22, 2012: H.R. 3261 Stop Online Piracy Act: Popularly known as SOPA, this bill would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Congressional Caucus Most Strongly Supported Constitutional War Standards in 2011?</title>
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		<comments>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2012/01/02/which-congressional-caucus-constitution-war-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Article I Section 8 of United States Constitution, the Congress and only the Congress is given the authority to declare war. No other person or body in government — not the Supreme Court, not the President — is the authority to do so anywhere in the Constitution. The first war in Iraq, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In tweeted conversations about S. 1867, who listened to whom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the U.S. Senate passed S. 1867, a military authorization bill with a special provision granting the U.S. military the power to put people into detention without charges and without any time limit. All classes of people are subject to detention without charge: Americans citizens and noncitizens, people living inside the borders of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Congress Confuses You: Legislative Status Steps Poster, 1974</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/08/20/why-congress-confuses-you-legislative-status-steps-poster-1974/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why congressional procedure confuses you so much? Don&#8217;t let it get you down: it isn&#8217;t you, it&#8217;s the Congress. The Library of Congress posted a copy of this 1974 Legislative Status Steps poster by Frank B. Ryan online in the summer of 2011, and even though their version measured over two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 24 Do-Nothing Members of the House of Representatives (June 21 2011)</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/06/21/the-24-do-nothing-members-of-the-house-of-representatives-june-21-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/06/21/the-24-do-nothing-members-of-the-house-of-representatives-june-21-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 01:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of June 21 2011, the following twenty-four members of the House of Representatives still have failed to introduce a single bill or amendment for consideration by the 112th Congress. Most members of Congress in their first year have introduced legislation, but a few are still laggards. Members in their first term who have not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roll Call: 88 Tea Party members of Congress vote for Unrestrained War Powers</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/06/03/62-percent-of-tea-party-in-congress-votes-for-unrestrained-war-powers/</link>
		<comments>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/06/03/62-percent-of-tea-party-in-congress-votes-for-unrestrained-war-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party movement and the national organizations claiming to represent it have repeatedly asserted the importance of limited government. A number of politicians were elected to Congress in 2010 by surfing atop the wave of Tea Party cries to protect the Constitution. Today, the commitment of those politicians to limited constitutional government was put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>234 in House Cast their Vote for Endless War</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/05/29/234-in-house-cast-their-vote-for-endless-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 14:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section 1034 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011 gives the President of the United States perpetual authority to use military force anywhere in the world that the President believes holds terrorists. Section 1034 abrogates Congress&#8217; constitutional authority and duty under Article I Section 8 of the United States Constitution to declare war. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Stooges: Baca Fortenberry and Deutch Insist on Privacy for Themselves But not for You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The four cosponsors of H.R. 423, a bill to keep the addresses of members of Congress private: Joe Baca (Democrat-CA District 43)Ted Deutch (Democrat-FL District 19)Jeff Fortenberry (Republican-NE District 1)Jared Polis (Democrat-CO District 2) Of these four, those which voted YES on H.R. 514, a bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act and revoke the privacy [...]]]></description>
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