Practice is Unnecessary, Discourages Program Participation and Wastes Money Following reports that more New Yorkers went hungry in 2008 than the year before, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and 27 Members of Congress called on Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to end the practice of fingerprinting food stamp applicants....
Call it “pay as you fight.” After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan war . Three full committee chairmen — including the House’s top tax writer, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel...
When, in the history of US wars , have they ever been paid for out of savings? When has the US government ever actually had a surplus ? Call it “pay as you fight.” After months of listening to conservatives caterwaul over deficits and health care, senior House Democrats want a graduated surtax on individuals and corporations to pay for another big drain on the treasury: the Afghanistan...
In reply to Blog for November 23, 2009 [See ADDENDUM] : Hi All - Best we add Charles Rangel to this list as well - a man who's ways & means do not serve America properly in this rating, banking, securitization mess the world suffers from now. I do honor the man as having served his country honorably - just the district he represents does not generally mirror America's postion, but he has served...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.From New York to Chicago to Los Angeles, lawmakers from heavily minority areas rank at or near the bottom in the number of students they have nominated for appointment to West Point,...
While the military continues its push for diversity, it isn't getting much help from some key members of Congress, who represent heavily minority districts across the country. An Associated Press review of service academy appointments over the past five years reveals that lawmakers from the nation's major urban areas--New York, Chicago and Los Angeles--rank at or near the bottom in the number of students...
Bob Weir at American Thinker has some thoughts: What this country needs is a strong conservative leader with the courage of her convictions. Sensing those qualities in Sarah Palin, the liberal left is becoming frantic because they can't seem to halt her popularity. The reason they're panicking is because they're afraid of her connection with regular folks who work for a living, pay their taxes, attend...
Forty five trade associations from twenty nine preference and free trade area countries on November 16th urged Congress to reject proposals to grant duty free access to Bangladesh and Cambodia for textiles and apparel. The trade groups included major exporters from North and South America, Africa and the Middle East that depend on existing trade preferences and free trade agreements for over $30 billion...
Your humble correspondent has just returned from the Caribbean paradise of Culebra. Politics were far from my mind as I snorkled the Culebran reefs. However, on my way home, I picked up a copy of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun in the western outskirts of San Juan and a certain story by Robert Friedman of their Washington, D.C. bureau caught my eye because it had the word "rum" in the title: "Debate...
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the Bush Administration set out to determine the new path for our nation in order to provide better security from an enemy which was beholden to no nation, no borders, no rules, no sense of morality, and hell bent on killing Americans regardless of their status as citizen or military. An enormous task to say nothing else. Unfortunately for America, opponents...
CHARLES RANGEL UPDATE: Rangel, meanwhile, has attracted criticism in recent weeks for lining his campaign coffers with donations from those on both sides of the contentious rum-tax issue. Contributions to Rangel from the Virgin Islands totaled more than $167,000 between 1999 and 2008, and more than half of that — $84,800 — was given during the 2007-08 [...]
As though we needed more evidence that the Stupak amendment was a sham, and was allowed by Pelosi in order to provide just enough cover for Blue Dogs to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute, there's this. Via the Hill : Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the Democrats' chief deputy whip in the House, said that she and other pro-choice lawmakers would work to strip the amendment included in...
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I had the pleasure of reading a final finished copy of The Dollar Meltdown by Charles Goyette this past week. Congressman Ron Paul offers an opinion on the front cover to which I certainly concur: "Goyette does a great job explaining why America faces a looming financial crisis and outlines commonsense strategies for individuals to protect themselves and their families. This book truly is a must...
Too much. Tax cheat Charles Rangel (Dem-NY) says he won’t answer Rep. John Boehner’s question because he doesn’t want to violate House Ethics laws. From today’s House debate on nationalized health care: Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006. Just remember… [...]
The Rules Committee will meet today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962. It will aired be live on C-SPAN 2. [Ed. Note: FDL News Desk will also be covering this Rules Hearing.] 2:06 – Rep. Charles Rangel begins by reading on opening statement in [...]
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