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  • The Senate Carves $90 Million Out of Stimulus For Liberal Activist Group

    02/03/2009 5:23:54 AM PST · by cc2k · 29 replies · 2,627+ views
    The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (”LCCR”) is a far left interest group. The group opposed conservative judges. The group agitates for card check. The group is in favor of the Fairness Doctrine. It is chiefly an agitator for affirmative action programs and tries to pressure banks into giving high risk loans like those that caused the housing crisis. If you oppose them, they label you a racist. LCCR operates like ACORN. And the Senate Democrats are about to give the $90 million of your money. Under the cover of the digital television conversion delay, the Senate Democrats want to...
  • ACORN Could Get Billions from Democrats' Trillion Dollar Spending Plan

    01/23/2009 1:59:05 PM PST · by Sub-Driver · 60 replies · 546+ views
    ACORN Could Get Billions from Democrats' Trillion Dollar Spending Plan "Job Creation" Bill Offers Taxpayer-Funded Bonanza for Organization Reportedly Under Federal Investigation Washington, Jan 23 - The House Democrats’ trillion dollar spending bill, approved on January 21 by the Appropriations Committee and headed to the House floor next week for a vote, could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN has been accused of perpetrating voter registration fraud numerous times in the last several elections; is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the irresponsible...
  • As U.S. Economic Problems Loom, House, Senate Sweat the Small Stuff

    08/19/2008 9:28:04 AM PDT · by COUNTrecount · 3 replies · 60+ views
    WSJ ^ | August 19, 2008 | ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON
    Members of Congress Love a Good Resolution; Watermelons and Undertakers Fit the Bill WASHINGTON -- The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball." Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session -- 294 so far -- than...
  • Congress wants to know your eBay buying habits

    07/28/2008 11:30:52 AM PDT · by hripka · 84 replies · 481+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | June 20, 2008 | WorldNetDaily
    A freedom-focused grassroots organization has issued a nationwide alert about a plan in Congress that would require credit card companies, eBay, Amazon, Google and other companies to report what you buy to the federal government. FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey said the privacy implications are "breathtaking." "This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week," he said. "Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon and Google Checkout," he said....
  • Need Help Soliciting Opinion Polls on S.2433

    07/28/2008 10:19:12 AM PDT · by Hillary'sMoralVoid · 5 replies · 186+ views
    self | 7/29/08 | HMV
    S.2433 is the bill that will transfer $800B USD to the UN to combat global poverty. It is the OAIW's (Obama Administration In Waiting)first attempt in transferring our wealth out of the US. This amounts to OVER $7000 for every man, woman and child in America. (please note correction from my previous post) I'm contacting every political talk show host I know, as well as multiple members of congress to defeat this measure, but the most effective means will be to get several major polls from across America. With the current economic situation, this bill should be a huge loser...
  • U.S. government: We know parenting better than you

    07/24/2008 2:32:46 AM PDT · by Man50D · 105 replies · 127+ views
    WorldNetDaily.com ^ | July 24, 2008 | Chelsea Schilling
    The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems. The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines. The measures are said to be a way to prevent child abuse, close the achievement gap in education between poor and minority infants versus middle-class children and...
  • Stealing Freedom: Democrat 'Media Reform'

    07/08/2008 3:30:55 AM PDT · by CapnJack · 26 replies · 753+ views
    American Thinker ^ | July, 08, 2008 | Lance Fairchok
    "Our massive strategy was to use the Fairness Doctrine to challenge and harass right-wing broadcasters and hope the challenges would be so costly to them that they would be inhibited and decide it was too expensive to continue." --Bill Ruder, Democratic campaign consultant and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Kennedy Administration The usual suspects will be doing the dirty work. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) or Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) will likely resurrect the failed Media Act (Meaningful Expression of Democracy in America Act) intended to make political commentary unflattering to Democrats more difficult to deliver and easier to suppress through congressional...
  • Oil drilling spat derails House funding bills

    06/26/2008 2:59:15 PM PDT · by mdittmar · 52 replies · 113+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 6/26/08 | Charles Abbott rueters
    A Republican effort to force a vote on opening up more land to drilling on Thursday threatened to bring the annual appropriations process in the U.S. House of Representatives to a halt. Democrats, who control the House, shut down Appropriations Committee work on two major federal funding bills after Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling. "I think we've probably had our last meeting of the year," Chairman David Obey heatedly told reporters after the bill-drafting session broke up. The meeting was called to work on Labor and Agriculture department bills. Republicans tried to attach the Interior Department bill...
  • Obama's Global Tax Bill Coming Soon

    06/26/2008 10:21:18 AM PDT · by kingattax · 27 replies · 92+ views
    American Thinker ^ | June 26, 2008 | Lee Cary
    The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote. The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama. If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures. And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with...brace yourselves...the United Nations. The...
  • Petition To Stop The Fairness Doctrine

    06/26/2008 5:30:41 AM PDT · by Man50D · 74 replies · 987+ views
    Help Declare Radio Independence Day! The Media Research Center is leading the effort to expose and defeat these efforts. The Broadcaster Freedom Act (H.R. 2905) -- a bill in Congress that would ban permanently the so-called “Fairness Doctrine.” -- is stalled in Congress. We want to rally 100,000 signers by July 4th so we can press every member of Congress to go on record on this vital First Amendment issue. NOTE: The “Broadcaster Freedom Act” is currently stuck in committee. Sign this petition urging Congress to bring this bill to a vote by July 4th! -- "Radio Independence Day"
  • H.R. 6257 Assault Weapons Ban Re authorization Act of 2008 (Introduced in House)

    06/20/2008 10:31:28 AM PDT · by MD_Willington_1976 · 97 replies · 1,585+ views
    THOMAS Library of Congress ^ | 6/12/2008 | Rep Kirk, Mark Steven
    H.R.6257 Title: To reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. Sponsor: Rep Kirk, Mark Steven [IL-10] (introduced 6/12/2008) Cosponsors (4) Rep Castle, Michael N. [DE] - 6/12/2008 Rep Ferguson, Mike [NJ-7] - 6/12/2008 Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [FL-18] - 6/18/2008 Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] - 6/12/2008 Latest Major Action: 6/12/2008 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. TITLE(S): * SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED: Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008 * OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED: To reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act.