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Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) submitted an amendment to the House Committee on Rules for consideration to the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.R. 5959 . The amendment "would provide that no funds authorized may be used to support or maintain a covert action intended to undermine or overthrow a government of a member nation of the United Nations." The Rules Committee met on July 15 and we...
Rep. Barbara Lee has asked the House Ethics Committee for help resolving a $14,000 discrepancy in outside income she was paid last year, her chief of staff said Friday. Lee, D-Oakland, was paid $20,000 by Mills College in 2007, according to her annual...
Barbara Lee (D-California) remains stoutly determined to drag her Congressional colleagues, as well as the Bush administration, away from continuing to support the long list of foreign and domestic policy decisions that have damaged the Unites States at home and abroad. In this video, she sits with William Rivers Pitt to discuss several of these issues in detail. read more
Today at 5:01pm, Mayor Gavin Newsom will officiate a private wedding ceremony between Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin . At 6:00, Mayor Ron Dellums will officiate marriage ceremonies in Alameda County, with Rep. (and new DNC member) Barbara Lee on hand, among others. All over the state, couples, regardless of gender, will engage in the basic civil right of marriage. And all over the state, stories like...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee has been a tremendous leader, advocating for progressive immigration reform and fair and humane enforcement. Matt O'Brien writes in the Contra Costa Times: Pledging to "take them on big-time," Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, sharply criticized the federal...
Congresswoman lashes out against immigration agency By Matt O’Brien Contra Costa Times OAKLAND — Pledging to “take them on big-time,” Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, sharply criticized the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Friday and declared she would push for measures to reduce the fear she said agents have caused East Bay immigrant families. The Oakland Democrat told a [...]
Cosponsors CA06: Lynn Woolsey CA09: Barbara Lee FL19: Robert Wexler Candidates NY08: Adam Sullivan -primary Jerry Nadler Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, H.Res. 1258, needs Cosponsors so we can pressure Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Chairman John Conyers into starting impeachment hearings. (We will update the list on the right as we learn of new cosponsors.) You can play a crucial role...
In coach class aboard a flight to Washington, D.C., Warren Browner and the "unpretentious woman" sitting in the middle seat next to him started a conversation. She was Oakland Rep. Barbara Lee, and together they discussed all kinds of things, especially...
Here is Brad Newsham's latest newsletter. Brad is running for Congress after working very hard to put impeachment "on the table"-- especially with his news-making Beach Impeach actions.
Lawmakers on Tuesday debated legislation to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) from an apartheid-era United States terrorist blacklist. Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, recalled that ANC members could travel to United Nations headquarters in New York but not to Washington DC or other parts of the United States.
"People shouldn't have to choose between voting for food stamps for hungry people and for an occupation that is keeping our young men and women in harm's way," said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), a co-founder of the Out of Iraq Caucus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA6dq2Otb2c My 10-minute review of the film Body of War. It's an AMAZING movie. Author: tpagti Keywords: body of war review amazing film obama clinton iraq robert byrd feinstein boxer barbara lee Added: April 29, 2008
Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, center, with John Conyers, left, and State Senator Martha Scott of Michigan at the Central United Methodist Church annual dinner in January 2008. (Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe). Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Barbara Lee's War on Poverty By Katrina Vanden Heuvel Recently, Congresswoman Barbara Lee said to me, "This is a moment when people...
After the chaos surrounding the Olympic torch relay in Paris and London, various media are publishing editorials and op-eds on China's role as Olympic host. As the torch enters San Francisco for its only North American stop, Congresswoman Barbara Lee writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: China's resistance to sanctioning Sudan ...
