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Howard Berman Busts American Jobs With Foreign Shopping Bag Bill

Posted on April 29 2012 by Congress Watcher

ReUSAble bags sells American-made reusable shopping bags for just 50 cents each. With made in the USA reusable shopping bags available at low prices like this, there’s no reason, economic or environmental, for the import duties on foreign-made shopping bags to remain specially lowered.

Spencer Bachus Taking Money From The People He’s Supposed To Regulate

Posted on February 20 2012 by Congress Watcher

The fundraiser specifically organized payments to Spencer Bachus from the banking industry for a reason. The reason is that Spencer Bachus is the chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

Barney Frank Blasts Martin Luther King Day Hypocrites

Posted on January 19 2012 by Congress Watcher

Republicans seem only able to accept one part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision: The broad outline of racial equality. That’s only one part of what Dr. King was working for. Dr. King also had a vision of economic justice for all people, a world in which a hard day’s work would be rewarded with fair pay, in which war would come to an end, in which health care would be a universally recognized human right.

James Moran Takes On The One Percent

Posted on October 27 2011 by Congress Watcher

Corporations say that these changes are necessary to help them create jobs, but as James Moran pointed out, the truth is that corporations already have the resources necessary to create jobs, but are refusing to pitch in. They want those extra profits to go to the top 1 percent, not to create jobs for working America.

John Cornyn Seeks A Tax Reduction For The 1 Percent Only

Posted on October 20 2011 by Congress Watcher

S. 1738 provides a 3.8 tax cut, but only for households with an income of over $250,000 per year. It’s a special tax deal for the 1 percent most wealthy Americans. It provides no benefit whatsoever to the 99 percent.

Rangel Speaks Out Supporting Wall Street Protesters

Posted on October 6 2011 by Congress Watcher

People are mad as hell. They really think that they’ve been let down. They worked so hard to achieve what they had achieved in this great country; and the greatest thing about America is not what you’ve achieved, in my opinion, it is having the hope that you can make it in America.

Citizen Clark: Occupation Movements A Wakeup Call For Congress

Posted on October 5 2011 by Congress Watcher

Citizen Stan Clark has a message for those in Congress who are hoping that the protests will go away: “People are pissed because it makes you feel as though this Administration and Congress are looking the other way, because they’re all involved.”

Congress Ignores Wall Street Protest, Ben Emery Calls Attention To It

Posted on September 23 2011 by Congress Watcher

Members of Congress are trying to pretend that they haven’t noticed the anti-corporate protest going on for six days now on the sidewalks of Wall Street, but Green Party congressional candidate Ben Emery is spreading the word.

Boehner Compares Corporations To Oppressed Workers

Posted on September 17 2011 by Congress Watcher

Corporations aren’t on strike. They’re holding a lock out. Americans want to work. Corporations have enough money to hire every single American looking for work, but they’re refusing to allow Americans to walk in the door.

Republicans Say They Oppose Debt Ceiling Increase After They Vote For It

Posted on September 14 2011 by Congress Watcher

among those voting for this resolution against the debt ceiling increase are a huge number of Republican U.S. Representatives who, only a little over a month ago voted in favor of the debt ceiling increase. They flip flopped on the issue, stating that they were for the increase of the debt ceiling before they were against it.

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