Phil Jennerjahn looks like a more likely Republican nominee to replace Diane Watson, though his campaign site is in an awkward state of transition between his failed mayoral campaign and his current congressional effort.
Dennis Kucinich seeks to respond to Wall Street abuse of the public trust with H.R. 4414. The bill, with the short title of the Responsible Bankers Act, would create a 75 percent tax on excessive executive bonuses at Wall Street firms.
H.R. 3591, the Constitution and Citizenship Day Act, creates four million dollars for competitive grants to educational programs that teach about the federal constitution and state constitutions.
The FISA Amendments Act completely unravels the fourth amendment to the Constitution. It makes protection from unreasonable search and seizure a mere privilege for those that please the government, not an inalienable right.
You are probably not aware of it, but the Equal Rights Amendment did not die back in the 1980s. It has been brought back to the House of Representatives and to the Senate. Both the Senate and House versions of the proposed constitutional amendment state that: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be [...]
Many of these representatives are progressive Democrats, but some of them are right wing Republicans. Hank Johnson included people from both sides of the political spectrum because he realized that the human tragedy of the fighting in northern Uganda merited a unified approach that transcended domestic politics.
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