In a letter to his supporters dated July 2010, fundamentalist Christian leader Tim Wildmon leveled a series of charges at the feet of Democratic Party politicians, including the flamingly false accusation that President Barack Obama wanted the Supreme Court to somehow mandate vast redistribution of wealth. Tim Wildmon doesn’t have a good record when it [...]
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.
The following marks the measurable activity of the LGBT Equality Caucus in the House of Representatives from October 19 (the date of our last update on the caucus) to December 23, 2009: On October 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a Defense authorization bill containing legislation defining violence against people on the basis of [...]
The lobbyists who actually wrote the speeches for members of Congress were working for Genentech, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical corporation Roche, which has a substantial financial interest in blocking health care reform legislation.
Four months ago, Representatives Phil Hare and Marcy Kaptur introduced H.R. 2039, the Congressional Made in America Promise Act. The legislation attempts to fix a big loophole in the Buy America Act, which required the legislative branch to buy supplies from manufacturers here in the United States. The loophole allowed administrators to evade the requirement [...]
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 [...]
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