Bipartisan Coalition Attempts To Force US Military Out Of Pakistan
H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.
H. Con. Res. 301 would have required a complete American military pullout from Pakistan by the end of this December.
Delahunt voted to extend the worst abuses of the Patriot Act without any reforms at all to the law passed at the height of the Homeland Security scare a decade ago. This vote tarnishes Delahunt’s reputation among progressives near the end of his career, when he is unlikely to have any opportunity to redeem himself with a significant vote on civil liberties.
A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has proposed a new policy to help Iranians to use new information technologies to build grassroots communications networks, allowing “large numbers of users to bypass censorship and surveillance technologies, for the purposes of promoting Iranians’ unfettered access to the Internet, which is a civil liberty that should be enjoyed by all people.”
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.
John Bellinger, the legal adviser to the Department of State, will testify and be asked questions about the Bush Administration’s practice of extreme rendition, in which prisoners in United States custody are knowingly sent to be interrogated by nations that routinely use torture.
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 [...]
It’s especially important to conserve wild cats and dogs, because they’re predators. As such, they help to preserve balance within ecological systems. When predators go extinct, their prey species go through wild boom and bust cycles that endanger large number of animal and plant circles. So, the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act of 2008 is arguably the most important conservation legislation to be presented to Congress this year.