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Todd Akin Ignores Wildfires To Deny Global Warming Reality

Posted on September 7 2011 by Congress Watcher

Todd Akin refuses to cite the factual grounds for his suspicion that global warming isn’t really taking place. Scientists have raw data and tested climate models. Congressman Akin, it seems, has nothing but a hunch.

Who Voted Against Safety Regulations for Offshore Drilling

Posted on May 15 2011 by Congress Watcher

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.

Tea Party Caucus Mostly Supports Government Spying Legislation

Posted on February 9 2011 by Congress Watcher

Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.

GOP Coalition Seeks To End All Taxes For Heirs Of Vast Estates

Posted on December 19 2010 by Congress Watcher

In addition to encouraging sloth by some of the richest people in the nation, the End Tax Uncertainty Act will increase the budget deficit, creating additional debt that will need to paid, with interest, before too long in the future.

Todd Akin: Miserly to Jobless Americans, Wastrel for Useless Jets

Posted on April 18 2010 by Congressional Aid

Politics is all about priorities. On the motion to extend unemployment insurance benefits for laid-off Americans searching for jobs but unable to find jobs: Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri voted to deny Americans unemployment insurance. On the motion to cut funding for the F-22 fighter planes that were designed for fighting a Soviet air force [...]

GOP Urges D.C. To Ignore Its Own Laws

Posted on January 7 2010 by Congress Watcher

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 signed their name to a legal brief urging a court to block D.C.’s legalization of same-sex marriage.

Todd Akin Declares Literacy a Soviet Menace

Posted on November 20 2009 by Congressional Aid

On the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri declared public schools a menace to society. And teaching children to read? According to Akin, that’s downright Soviet: The thing that strikes me the most, and I don’t want to overuse the welcome that you’ve extended to me, is this. There [...]

Christianity But Not Confucius For Theocracy Caucus In Congress

Posted on October 30 2009 by Congress Watcher

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

Todd Akin Goes Postal

Posted on March 2 2009 by Congressional Aid

Todd Akin was first elected to Congress more than eight years ago, giving him more than enough time to get his bearings, figure out how a bill becomes a law, and gear up for some actual work. Here’s the sum total of the legislation Todd Akin has introduced in the 111th Congress: H.R. 1216: a [...]

Mike Turner Uses Boy Scout to Push God in Congress

Posted on July 25 2008 by Congress Watcher

The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.

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