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Sanders Challenges Obama To Stand For Working Americans Against The GOP

Posted on June 27 2011 by Congress Watcher

Senator Bernard Sanders is challenging Barack Obama not to cave in to the Republicans’ budget demands, as he has caved in to them so often in the past.

Sanders Reminds Senate Why America Is In Debt

Posted on June 14 2011 by Congress Watcher

I get a little bit tired of being lectured about deficit reduction and how significant a problem our deficit is by many folks who voted for legislation time after time after time over the last ten years that in fact have caused the deficit crisis that we’re in right now.

Michele Bachmann chants “Pay for it,” sponsors legislation that doesn’t

Posted on June 13 2011 by Congressional Aid

“Taxpayers have a right to have a federal government that does not grow beyond their ability to pay for it.” – Michele Bachmann, March 2007 “In my district people want a strong fiscal conservative. My husband and I believe in getting your house in order financially. There are people here in D.C. who appear to [...]

Three Democrats Vote For Big Oil Giveaway

Posted on May 19 2011 by Congress Watcher

The three Democratic senators who voted against ending government subsidies to oil companies have taken a great deal of money from oil companies. Coincidence?

Who’s Getting Gassy In The House?

Posted on April 26 2011 by Congress Watcher

Many of these politicians were howling just a couple of weeks ago about out of control government spending. Now, they’re supporting a plan to throw out billions of dollars to benefit big natural gas companies.

Cut the Budget? Cut War in Afghanistan.

Posted on April 7 2011 by Congress Watcher

Lynn Woolsey wonders why Congress isn’t cutting the war in Afghanistan instead of Medicare.

Walter Jones Links Afghanistan And Spending Cuts

Posted on April 6 2011 by Congress Watcher

Walter Jones explicitly discussed the hypocrisy of his Republican colleagues who are willing to institute draconian cuts on basic governmental programs, but push for the expansion of wildly expensive military programs and insist upon the continuation of the failed war in Afghanistan.

Kucinich To Block Funding For Libyan War

Posted on March 23 2011 by Congress Watcher

Dennis Kucinich has begun crafting legislation to bring the Executive Branch back into accordance with the Constitution, in the form of a budgetary amendment that cuts off all funding to President Obama’s new war.

Protests Against Republican Cuts Erupt Across America

Posted on March 15 2011 by Congress Watcher

Progressive protests opposing Republicans’ imbalanced fiscal policy are larger than Tea Party protests were in 2009.

The Facts On Cowboy Poetry Spending

Posted on March 12 2011 by Congress Watcher

The Republicans in Congress aren’t targeting the the wars in Afghanistan. They’re targeting the Cowboy Poetry Festival instead. What does that tell you about the seriousness of Republican commitment to eliminate the federal budget deficit?

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