Where Congress stands

At the RNC the audience was predominantly white (as in I only saw like 3 black folks the whole time), very uptight, filled with suits, speeches had angry undertones, and of course there was the nut throwing incident as well as the physical assault. Now I know it's early, but thus far at the DNC I see a completely diverse group of folks who seem to be happy and excited. I detect no tension. On top of this is the involvement and inclusion of REGULAR PEOPLE in this event including local eve ...

I first heard this on Hardball last night, when Chris Matthews mentioned it. Knew I couldn't use MSNBC here as a source (though wondered whether MSNBC would be newly acceptable in view of the message he presented). http://rawstory.com/2009/11/real-unemployment-rate-stands-175/ ...

Given the NRA's call to prosecute violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law, it's important to look at their history with respect to keeping guns out of violent hands. The following article illuminates the organization's duplicitous stance when it comes to violent crime. "...the NRA doesn’t help the government prosecute accused criminals. It defends them. The NRA is a civil liberties organization, like the ACLU. It focuses not on protecting the public, but on the ri ...

It doesn't matter to Republicans, as Grover Norquist, leader of the Republican party has stated: "Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States." Same method as the Bush presidency. ...

Article by Howard Kurtz at FOX News. Yes, I typed FOX News! ...

reat news! Despite months of fierce lobbying by the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Obama administration announced today that it would not exempt Catholic hospitals from the Affordable Care Act requirement for insurance plans to cover employees’ birth control. The news, which comes on the first day of Trust Women Week, is a welcome victory for feminists.Back in November, feminists were concerned that President Obama might cave in to the Bishops’ pressure ...

State Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday, voted on Oct. 17, 2001 to deny financial aid to Red Cross rescue workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts. As a state representative at the time, Brown was one out of only three legislators who had opposed the overwhelmingly bipartisan measure. As ThinkProgress reported on Saturday, at the same time Brown was voting against the 9/11 rescue workers bill, he sponsored House Bill 4 ...

Let's blame Nixon for a while. Maybe that is something we can all agree on! ...

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution specifies that it is the Congress that has the power to declare war. United States Code (50 U.S.C. 1541-1548), the War Powers Act, specifically states that the president may undertake the use of military force only in the case of "... a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." It further states that the President must consult with Congress, "...in every possible instance ...

Thought this was an interesting article. How do they plan to pay? http://standeyo.com/NEWS/09_Economy/091202.how.2pay.for.war.html ...

This is a must watch! It made me want to cry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZBTyTWOZCM ...

after the reps get back from their 11-day Thanksgiving holiday break and right before their target adjounment date for their 28-day Christmas/Hanukkhah/New Year's holiday which commences tentatively on December 8. After they reconvene Jan 5, Occupy plans a return visit to Congress around March 31 to kick off American Spring. Bill "OWS-is-dead" O'Reilly must have missed the memo. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/pl ...

Aren't they supposed to be working for us not against us? Why does each side think it's okay to take the American people hostage as long as it furthers thier agenda? It's not just the tax cuts that will expire, but it also puts into motion the defense cuts that were never supposed to happen, which could put more than 1 million people out of work. I think every single one of them should forfeit thier paycheck until they come up with a plan that helps everyone, not ...

a clean bipartisan Zika funding bill! ...

But they are. Let's stop that. See petition below. ...

I'm listening to the health care repeal debate. Weiner, as usual, was a little hyperactive during his debate point. The speakers I found most interesting were the doctors that have been elected to Congress. All of them are against the law the way it stands. It just came across the bottom of the screen that if the health care repeal passes, REID will NOT schedule it on the Senate side. That's like saying to heck with what the people want, (I don't want ...

Check to see if your representative in Congress is on this list. This is a trend analysis of the data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics using their average net worth calculations. “The List” of the Elite 80 : Skyrocketing Net Worth Name Avg ‘04 Avg ‘08 Growth ‘04-‘08 % Change 2009 Net Worth Gutierrez, Luis V (D-Ill) $47,503 $1,790,508 $1,743,005 3,669 $2,358,005 Scott, David (D-Ga) $107,262 $3,008,001 $2,90 ...

President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced Tuesday -- filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick's confirmation. In two decades as a professor of health policy and as a prolific writer, Dr. Berwick has championed the interests of patients and consumers. At the same time, he has spoken of the need to RATION health care and cap spendin ...

King Grover Norquist has arrived to issue you his commands!!!! ...

I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBBBrKfjIQ ...

Tea Parties planning much activity. I'll see you there. Link ...

I posted this as a response on another thread, but I think it deserves it's own thread. It very clearly lays out our 113th congress' lack of productivity and some of the records it is breaking--for instance, the record of the 112th congress of passing the least number of bills since the 1940's. As we were losing jobs, certain members congress were formulating a plan to block, filibuster and obstruct any legislation the president approved of. Pete Sessions had the ner ...

is to close down the Office of Congressional Ethics which provides the only independent oversight of ethics of members of congress. Way to go Pubs; way to drain the swamp. ...

There are lies that just will not die and the chance a lie will not die increases exponentially if it is a leftist talking point. My gosh, we’re still hearing that Planned Parenthood gives mammograms and that no WMD were found in Iraq. Now that Trump has launched a strike on Syria in retaliation for its use of chemical agents on a civilian target, the Obama fellatistas are out en masse claiming that Obama, too, could have done that if only a dastardly and racist Congress had not forbidden him ...

watching the Senate intelligence committee hearings Thursday morning, I got so frustrated I started looking for a good cartoon show. What's so aggravating about these staged Congressional hearings is that you know what the Republicans and the Democrats are going to say before you even turn on the TV. If it's healthcare reform, the right side says it's going to replace Obamacare with something that works - but then they can't sell their conservative ideas to the public a ...

President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator. When the Senate takes up her confirmation, lawmakers should be aware that McCarthy, the current chief of air regulation at EPA, has a history of misleading Congress and the public about her agency’s greenhouse gas regulations. Oversight and Government Reform Committee in October 2011, McCarthy denied motor vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards are “related to” fuel eco ...

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