GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics
Nov 7, 2009
This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, [...]
Yesterday, Sen. Mike
Johanns (R-NE), along
with 19 other Senate
Republicans, sent a
letter to the chairman
and ranking member of the
Senate Armed Forces
Committee requesting a
hearing into the dubious
rumor being spread by the
Weekly Standard’s
...
On Tuesday, right-wing
billionaire David
Koch’s Americans
for Prosperity (AFP)
organized yet another
anti-health reform rally
on Capitol Hill. Part of
AFP’s strength is
its secrecy. The
organization, a front
group for corporate
interests, ...
Last week, Politico
featured a piece by
right-wing pundit Pat
Buchanan suggesting that
rather than talking about
a second stimulus
package, tax credits, or
public works projects,
lawmakers should be
seriously considering an
immigration moratorium
duri...
On his Fox News show
yesterday, Glenn Beck
accused the Obama
administration of actions
that “border on
treason” because of
a dubious rumor floated
by the Weekly
Standard’s Michael
Goldfarb that the White
House threatened to close
an ...
Blog: Christmas my child by Oswaldo Z.
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— "Christmas, my child, is
love in action. Every
time we love, every time
we give, it's
Christmas."~ Dale Evans
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Blog: Plan B 4.0 by the Numbers - Data Highlights on Selling Our Future by Earth Policy I.
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— In Chapter 1 of Plan B
4.0: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization, Lester
Brown underscores
important indicators of
global stability and
resource
consumption. The
following are summaries
of key datasets that
inform these
discussions.Each year,
the Fun... more