it seems that the medal for first robocall in iowa following the 2008 general election goes to former arkansas gov. mike huckabee. huckabees recorded voice is used on the call which is a phone survey that based on the questions asked seeks to identify politically active opponents of abortion and to request contributions. call recipients are asked if they have ever voted if they agre......
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heres something you may or may not want to know about. i report you decide. i would have mentioned this closer to christmastime but i didnt want to soil and spoil your december. some of you may remember jamie arpinricci. hes that most dedicated religious fellow who ties knots in strings as a spiritual discipline. hes also purchasing a baby. and if you g......
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cosponsors ask your rep to cosponsor to be added this is the first resolution urging president bush not to pardon senior administration officials for crimes the president authorized. it urges congress to investigate those crimes and any pardons relating to those crimes and urges the attorney general to appoint a independent counsel to prosecute those crim......
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...ated press writers jeannine aversa christopher s. rugaber deb riechmann marcy gordon and ken thomas contributed to this report. the bill is h.r. 6867. on the net congress httptho mas.loc.go v more on george bush......
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originally posted at red mom blue state do you want to get involved but dont know where to start youre desperate to do something but you dont know what to do here are 10 useful productive things you can do right now. ill be sharing the details in inc rementsrs quo so we can all pace ourselves. 1. make a decision not to......
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in the house courtesy of the office of the majority leader floor schedule for thursday november 20 2008 house meets at 1000 a.m. for legislative business no votes are expected members are advised that following the pledge of allegiance the house is expected to recess subject to the call of the chair awaiting further action from the senate. additional information regardin......
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presidentelect obama continues to name members of his new cabinet. aformer democratic senate majority leader tom daschle from south dakota has been named to headaup health human services. aas a senator in 2003 daschle was the sponsor of s. 22 a sneaky way to get the unpopular rave act through congress after nowvice presidentelect biden was unsuccessful in passing it the......
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yes this story has the name lieb ermanquot in it. no this story isnt about whether or not lieberman is a good choice or a bad choice to head the homeland security committee or about whether the senators who voted to let him continue in that job are good guys or bad guys. its about the process by which chairmanships are assigned and the process by which some senators ......
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banned from daily kos deleted from political fleshfeast syndicated at impeachmen twatch.wor dpress.com all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. welcome to impeachmen twatch15 3 your daily diary that tracks impeachment whether the mainstream media covers it or not. plame was not fair game article xiv.misprision of a fe......
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filed under bush administration democrats abortion obama administration in what will likely turn out to be one of its last official acts the bush administration is finalizing rules that would protect health care workers and providers who object to abortion and contraception services on religious or moral grounds. the proposed rules to be issued by the department of health and huma......
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just keep this in mind that every time the d.c. folks talk about the urgent need for bailouts tucked in among billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars to bail out wall street are a few crumbs for the people not for the folks who took out risky mortgages or who thought someone else would pay off their credit card bills but for that tiny slice of america that bicycles to work. the bicycle commute......
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pending passage through the vetting process our next attorney general will be eric holder . what effect can the attorney general have on gun rights quite a large one. one of the responsibilities of the attorney general of course is leadership of the department of justice of which the batfe is now a part. its also the attorney general who is empowered to determine whether or not ......
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in case you missed it barack obama will be the next president of the united states and both houses of congress will be controlled by democratic majorities. wondering what this will mean for labor and employment law so are we but weve gone a step further and made some educated guesses on what to watch out for. the employee free choice act efca......
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here are the two current bills that we need to praisebe worried about. writecallemail your congressman on these now please. good bill h.r. 4900 bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives reform and firearms modernization act of 2007 introduced in house per nra 1st freedom magazine dec 2008 edition pg 52 advises that this bill will provided much needed ......
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john in mayretta driven through theretakes less time to drive than to say posted aboutathis chicks post about the freedom of choice act . afirst introduced in 2004 by the usual suspects this is supposed to prohibit the government from interfering with a womans right to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy 823082 21 but its going ......
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on october 3 2008 united states district court for the district of new mexico entered a preliminarily injunction in the air conditioning heating and refrigeration institute v. city of albuquerque barring enforcement of key provisions of volume i and volume ii of the albuquerque energy conservation code and the high performance building ordinance . the code would have required ldquo......
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...tion scheduled for consideration on the senate floor is posted at httpwww .senate.go v .a the senate is not scheduled to meet. a congressional schedules and calendars visit httptho mas.loc.go vhomesch edules.htm l for house and senate floor schedules committee schedules senate majority and minority schedules daysinsession calendar senate executive calendar and previous house and...
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four anticivil rights representatives have introduced a new awb . rep castle michael n. de rep ferguson mike nj rep roslehtinen ileana fl rep shays christopher ct a these four happen to be members of the republican party but that doesnt matter. what does matter is that they want to interfere with a civil rightagua ranteeda 40not granted by the constitution.......
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i thought it would be the democrats waiting at the gate to ban some of the most popular sporting arms but instead the new assault weapons ban comes from five douchebag republicans . they are rep. mark kirk ril rep. ileana roslehtinen rfl rep. michael ferguson rnj rep. christopher shays rct and rep. michael castle rde. with all the problems this country ......
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railing against expectations young people voted in record numbersand its just the beginning. by tim fernholz campusprogress.org in the months leading up to last nights historic election one question cropped up do progressive causes and candidates depend on young people too much do youth voters actually understand the issues that are at stake will they turn out ......
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banned from daily kos deleted from political fleshfeast syndicated at impeachmen twatch.wor dpress.com all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. welcome to impeachmen twatch15 3 your daily diary that tracks impeachment whether the mainstream media covers it or not. oil is the reason for the season article xii.initiatin......
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albuquerque tucked in among billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars to bail out wall street are a few crumbs for the people not for the folks who took out risky mortgages or who thought someone else would pay off their credit card bills but for that tiny slice of america that bicycles to work. the bicycle commuter act was among hundreds of earmarks federal lawmakers buried in the fine p......
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h.r. 6257 june 2008 assault weapons ban reauthorization act of 2008 am i seeing things this bill was reintroduced by rep ublicans 8221. maybe im just overtired and i missed this back in june. h.r. 6257 assault weapons ban reauthorization act of 2008 sponsor rep. mark kirk ril cosponsors as of 7 november 2008 rep. ileana roslehtinen rfl rep. mi......
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speaking to planned parenthood before the election barack obama promised that the first thing id do as president is sign the freedom of choice act. what is the freedom of choice act it is an attempt to eradicate state and federal laws which place any restrictions whatsoever on abortion . with one stroke of the pen president obama could eradicate state and federal l......
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