If you've been following the Blue America PAC at all, you may already be aware that we've decided that we won't be endorsing any candidates for the House in 2010 unless they are genuinely enthusiastic about passing John Larson's Fair Elections Now Act ( HR 1826 ). We're not asking for some unenforceable pledge; we want nothing less than heartfelt enthusiasm. Right now Larson has 117 co-sponsors from...
It's been over two months since we last took stock of the open seat situation in the House, so, once again, our crack team of open seat forensic analysts down at SSP Labs have put together a new edition of the 2010 House Open Seat Watch. As always, we've compiled three separate lists: one of confirmed vacancies/retirements, another of potential open seats, and a third - available below the fold - of...
House Vote 887 – H.R.3962: On Passage Affordable Health Care for America Act Result: Passed by 5 votes Date of Vote: November 7, 2009 Roll Call Number: 887 Yes Votes (220) No Votes (215) Member Party Dist. Member Party Dist. Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Robert B. Aderholt R AL-4 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Todd Akin R MO-2 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Rodney Alexander R LA-5 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Jason Altmire...
On a party line vote with one RINO in favor, the Neo-com Democrats pass PelosiCare (the House version of Obamacare). Here are the miscreants that will rob the elderly of medicare and create a death panel so they wont need medicare: From the NY Times Voted YEA Neil Abercrombie D HI-1 Gary L. Ackerman D NY-5 Robert E. Andrews D NJ-1 Michael Arcuri D NY-24 Xavier Becerra D CA-31 Howard L. Berman D CA-28...
With public anger rising over teacher furloughs in Hawaii, two of the four expected candidates for governor next year offered ways on Tuesday that the controversial moneysaving program could be halted or reduced. Neil Abercrombie, the 10-term Democratic U.S.... Sponsored Topics: Hawaii - Neil Abercrombie - United States - Democratic - Society and Culture
by Clay Travis Filed under: General CFB Insanity , Bowl Games We've had BCS outrage across the land, two anti-trust hearings in Congress, and enough fan anger to power a trip to Mars (if spaceships ran on rage). None of it has changed the BCS. At least, not yet. Now there's a new front in the fan war against college football's broken system. Meet the Playoff PAC, a political action committee, that...
Timothy McNulty | October 20, 2009 Finally, something seems poised for real bipartisan support -- opposition to the Bowl Championship Series. Obama has called for a football playoff repeatedly . Now, Rs and Ds are rallying behind a new PAC calling for the BCS to be disbanded. From CBS : Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said Monday that they...
For lo, there is now a bipartisan effort in Congress to get rid of the dreaded Bowl Championship Series. A bipartisan group of lawmakers fed up with the lack of a college football playoff have formed their own political action committee, Playoff PAC. The group includes Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who have all railed against the Bowl Championship...
Born in Belgium, Saint Damien ministered to those with leprosy quarantined on Hawaii's island of Molokai. President Obama today announced the members of the delegation to Belgium to attend the Thanksgiving Mass for him today. In addition to US Ambassador to Belgium Howard W. Gutman, the delegation includes Democratic Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Mazie K. Hirono from Hawaii; Joshua DuBois, director of...
The United States Congress has numerous coalitions and caucuses which various Congressmen and Senators align themselves with, such as the Republican Study Committee , or the Blue Dog Coalition , however, there is one caucus in the United States Congress which associates itself with left-wing organizations such as the ACLU, NAACP, La Raza, Moveon.Org, and other liberal organizations which advocate far-left...
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September 21, 2009 Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits KHNL-8 TV: Kapiolani Rep Neil Abercrombie reads Kapiolani letter The other day I found an old post in the drafts and posted it. It had to do with Rep Neil Abercrombie reading that Kapiolani letter at the Kapiolani Centennial Dinner that subsequently disappeared off their website and which Gibbs pretended to know nothing about. But [...]...
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September 19, 2009 Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits I can’t recall who wanted this and whether you had the pictures and needed an explanation or vice versa. I was looking for something else in the drafts from Abercrombie and found them. It’s from his official website and it’s what started that whole barry was born at Kapi’olani, who [...]
Thousands of miles from his Hawaii congressional district, Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie has discovered a lifeline for his state's struggling construction industry - and a potential boost in his campaign for governor. His idea is to legislate high wages... Sponsored Topics: Hawaii - United States - Neil Abercrombie - Society and Culture - Politics
A new study shows that most tweets from politicians are little more than self-promotional twaddle: The arrival of Twitter on Capitol Hill has given ordinary citizens access to the candid, real-time thoughts of their elected representatives. Like this dispatch from Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii): just completed weightlifting workout at the Nuuanu Y. Or this, from Sen. Charles E. [...]
Fortune Small Business: Two bills introduced on Capitol Hill aim to revise the tax code and get more money flowing into small business coffers. A bill from Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, would raise the deductible percentage of business meals from 50% to 80%. This could be a boon for America’s restaurants, 70% of which are small businesses. The [...]
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