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LAist (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
After San Francisco Congressman Tom Lantos' death , San Fernando Valley congressman Howard Berman took the seat as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee . That means he's in charge of the committee with "oversight over policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rest of the globe's hotspots," according to an Associated Press profile of the politician. It perhaps can be read wrong, but the...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Peninsula GOP leaders asked Atherton Republican Greg Conlon "to take a bullet for the party," he said, and run against Jackie Speier in the special election to replace the late Rep. Tom Lantos earlier this month. The 75-year-old Conlon played the good...
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ONE (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Over the last week, 42,145 Americans signed petitions requesting their state’s senators co-sponsor the “Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008″ (in conjunction with the AIDS-fighting legislation “PEPFAR”). Just now, I went with a crew of ONE staff and volunteers to distribute the [...]
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Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Jackie Speier, who was sworn in yesterday after a special election to replace the late Tom Lantos, was booed after she turned her introductory speech into a tirade against the war in Iraq. For a few feel-good moments on the floor of the U.S. House today, Jackie Speier basked in bipartisan applause as she was sworn in as its newest member. Her family, supporters and kids cheered as she embraced...
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A Spork in the Drawer (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
The House GOPers: Yesterday, Jackie Speier was sworn in as Congress’s newest Democratic member from California, succeeding the deceased Tom Lantos. During her opening speech, Speier was loudly booed by House conservatives when she began speaking about Iraq. “The process...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
As if this wasn't bad enough : The House had a meltdown today in the middle of the memorial service for the late Rep. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The service, in the Capitol's historic Statuary Hall, was disrupted when a Republican House member [Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart] unexpectedly called for a procedural vote. they decided to...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008 “I was elected to succeed Congressman Lantos. No one will ever replace him.” The above remark was not false modesty on the part of Jackie Speier, who won a special election Tuesday for the honor of succeeding Tom Lantos. Nevertheless, as Zachary Coile of the San Francisco Chronicle reminded us, in [...]
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
A new congresswoman from California began her career Thursday by demanding the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, drawing boos from some colleagues.Jackie Speier, a Democrat and former state legislator, was sworn in after winning a special election to replace Rep. Tom Lantos, who died Feb. 11 of cancer. She must win a June primary and election in November to serve a full term, the...
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
It got little coverage since it amounted to a Democrat replacing a Democrat but on Tuesday there was a special election in northern California's 12th congressional district to replace Tom Lantos who died of cancer in February. Former state senator Jackie Speier needed more than 50% of the vote on Tuesday to avoid a June 3 run-off and in fact managed to win a whopping 78% of the vote and so...
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SFist (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Our newest member of Congress just got booed by pro-war Republicans! Jackie Speier , who was just elected this Tuesday to fill out the remainder of Tom Lantos 's term in the House of Representatives, was sworn in today, and she promptly gave what's being described as a "fiery" speech calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Here's the San Francisco liberal money quote, which we're sure...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Hillary Clinton has added three superdelegates to The Count today. One, as per earlier, is Sophie Masloff, the former mayor of Pittsburgh. The other two, are Rep. Jackie Speier of California, who replaced the late Rep. Tom Lantos. And then Bill Burga of Ohio, an AFL-CIO poobah. Meanwhile, Barack Obama added one: the chair of the Utah Democratic Party, Wayne Holland
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The House on Thursday swore in Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., to succeed the late Tom Lantos, who died from cancer earlier this year.
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Jackie Speier, a survivor of the Jonestown tragedy three decades ago, won a special congressional election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Tom Lantos.
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Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Former California state lawmaker Jackie Speier, a survivor of the Jonestown tragedy three decades ago, won a special congressional election to fill the seat of the late Rep. Tom Lantos.
