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...
Only 55 Republican bigots cast nay votes against the Native American Business Development Enhancement Act of 2009. H.R. 1834 , passed with an overwhelming margin. 343 to 55, every Democrat voting yes and the GOP split 108 for it and 55 against it. Most of the nay votes were from the extreme fringes of the radical right, your Michele Bachmanns, Virginia Foxxes , Paul Brouns, Tom McClintocks and Mike...
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said Friday he wants abortions covered in federal health care reforms including a public option system pushed by the Obama administration.
Nov 19, 2009 By Marcelo Ballvé Organizers described them as immigration reform "house parties." Across the country last night, in churches, schools, immigrant support centers and private homes, backers of immigration reform gathered around telephones (the speaker phone turning the device into a de-facto radio) as Hispanic U.S. legislators laid out the strategy for pushing a reform...
Rep. Mike Honda, chair of the Afghanistan task force of the Progressive Caucus, sent a letter to President Obama with caucus co-chairs Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Marin and Raul Grijalva, D-Az., urging...
By David Swanson The Congressional Progressive Caucus has 82 members, 81 in the House and 1 in the Senate, but has taken the anti-progressive onslaught of recent years lying down. The CPC can be counted on to say some pleasant things, but in the end 1 or 2 or 8 or 14 of its members will vote a progressive position. Almost never will the CPC attempt to organize its members to all take a stand. When...
by David Safier Thanks and congratulations are due to our AZ Democratic delegation to the U.S. House. All of them voted Yes on the health care bill -- Raul Grijalva, Gabriel Giffords, Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell and Ed Pastor. Keep...
DownWithTyranny!: Senate Prepares To Back Another Obama War Supplemental For Afghanistan Escalation The context is that the Senate is about to sink another few BILLION dollars and thousands of American troops into the "graveyard of empires." A lot of experts think that Afghanistan is ungovernable and unwinnable. We need an exit plan to avoid being stuck there until we can no longer afford...
Get in the fight against statism. The life you save will be your own (and grandmas's and the kids, and Aunt Bessie .....) Subject: Vote on Healthcare Tonight Here's a list of the Democrats who are (reportedly) undecided or on the fence. Time to jam the phone lines. If they're not in your district it doesn't matter. Call 'em anyway. Call as many as you can. Someone who wants to force you to purchase...
There's no other word for it. Civilized Americans have been betrayed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Earlier today, the House, by a 386 -17 vote , will 11 voting "present", passed H. Res. 893 , congratulating.... God, it hurts so much to put this in writing ...the Evil Empire New York Yankees on their winning the 2009 World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies. And the worst part of...
After nearly 100,000 members of the public called for protecting the Grand Canyon from mining, a Pew Environment Group ad (http://www.pewminingreform.org/pdf/WishAd.pdf) today urged Congress to support legislation that would permanently ban new mining claims on public lands surrounding the park. Under the antiquated mining law of 1872, more than one thousand uranium mining claims have been staked...
An R-Cubed senior correspondent reports that in conjunction with Michelle Bachman’s “Superbowl of Freedom” in Washington, a single protestor showed up at Raúl Grijalva’s district office in Tucson with a sign that said “Grijalva = Communism”. He got bored after ten minutes and left. Quoth our senior correspondent: “I guess he didn’t feel that strongly...
Last night, Speaker Pelosi filed the manager's amendment--the final tweaks--to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962). Here's the announcment describing the changes made in this amendment: Building on the legislation House Democrats introduced last week, this manager’s amendment includes these key improvements to the bill: providing $1 billion in new resources to states to rein...
I'm always happy to see the progressives step up and demand what they want - you know, instead of falling into the fetal position. Greg Sargent from The Plumline: At a private meeting at the White House yesterday, top House liberals urged President Obama to more aggressively throw his weight into a public campaign on behalf of the public option, a leading House progressive said in an interview. Dem...
At a private meeting at the White House yesterday, top House liberals urged President Obama to more aggressively throw his weight into a public campaign on behalf of the public option, a leading House progressive said in an interview. Dem Rep. Raul Grijalva, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, says that this point [...]
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