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	<title>That&#039;s My Congress &#187; Jim Jordan</title>
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		<title>Who Voted Against Safety Regulations for Offshore Drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 01:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.]]></description>
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		<title>List of House Judiciary Members Who Approved Patriot Act With No Reforms</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/05/13/list-of-house-judiciary-members-who-approved-patriot-act-with-no-reforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's markup was an opportunity for reform of the abusive law, with amendments that could have brought the Patriot Act closer to compliance with the Constitution's Fourth Amendment guarantee of protection from unreasonable search and seizure.  Yet, every single reform that was offer was rejected by the House Judiciary Committee.]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Pledge To Eliminate Jobs</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/01/21/4655/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the proposals of the Spending Reduction Act is the elimination of over 300,000 federal jobs - 15 percent of the civilian employment currently in the budget.]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Jordan&#8217;s Insurance Industry Tailgate Party</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2010/09/23/jim-jordans-insurance-industry-tailgate-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Jordan's tailgate party was an invitation-only affair, and it took place in a Washington D.C. townhouse owned by the <i>Independent Insurance Agents &#038; Brokers of America</i>.  That organization just so happened to have lobbied in opposition to the health care reform that Representative Jordan just so happened to have voted against.  Now, that organization is just so happening to help Jordan raise money for his re-election campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>Chaffetz Bill To Force Discrimination In DC Fizzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Jason Chaffetz is aligned with the Religious Right, and the Religious Right demands that there will be no marriage equality for same-sex couples, so if opposing marriage equality means adopting a pose of allowing democratic choice for the definition of marriage, Chaffetz will do it.]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Rupli: The Lobbyist, The Parties, The Townhouse and Congress</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2010/01/08/tim-rupli-the-lobbyist-the-parties-the-townhouse-and-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Rupli is a registered lobbyist for a variety of non-profit and for-profit corporations including the anti-immigration Numbers USA, the payday-lenders&#8217; association called the Community Financial Services Association of America, the Independent Community Bankers of America, MetaBank, the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, weapons training corporation Lasershot Inc., and pharmaceutical corporation Sepracor. In compensation for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Urges D.C. To Ignore Its Own Laws</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2010/01/07/gop-urges-d-c-to-ignore-its-own-laws/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same inconsistency is there when it comes to the relative power between federal and local governments.  Right wing activists say that local governments should have power above the federal government's power, when local governments want to deny people rights.  When local governments seek to protect constitutional rights, however, the same right wing activists show no respect for local decisions.

It is in this spirit that yesterday, the following 39 Republican members of Congress <a href="http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/republicans_try_to_stop_gay_marriage_in_washington_dc">signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.'s legalization of same-sex marriage</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Equality Marriage Bill In Congress Sputters</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/11/12/anti-equality-marriage-bill-in-congress-sputters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marriage equality is the social norm in Washington D.C., with strong majority support.  Why does Congressman Jim Jordan want to impose contrary values on the district, using the power of the federal government to interfere?]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity But Not Confucius For Theocracy Caucus In Congress</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/10/30/christianity-but-not-confucius-for-theocracy-caucus-in-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever one stands on the question of just how the ideas of Confucius should be categorized, it's clear that some of the opposition to H. Res. 784 was not at all based in a loyalty to the separation of church and state]]></description>
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		<title>Democrats Join GOP To Thwart Equality in DC</title>
		<link>http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/07/05/democrats-join-gop-to-thwart-equality-in-dc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a piece of legislation that denies the constitutional right of equal protection under the law to same-sex couples, but also interferes with the ability of D.C. residents to express their values through representative government.]]></description>
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