Congress sounded like a good idea when first established but has turned out to be a terribly expensive joke. Paying 550 fat asses to continuously make laws for our land was not well thought out. We are paying a dear price now.
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News Congress Questions Larry Page Over Google Glass
05-19-2013
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tomshardware.com
Congress wants to know how Google plans to protect consumers using and not using Google Glass.
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News Oh My… Breaking: Holder Justice Department Also Tapped House of Representatives Cloak Room
05-16-2013
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Jim Hoft/thegatewaypundit.com
After the surfacing of damning scandals involving the administration, another one emerges. It turns out Eric Holder wasn't just spying on AP reporters, but members of the House of Representatives, too.
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News How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself
05-06-2013
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Washington Post
On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company.
The private call, arranged by a consul
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News Obama says Guantanamo must close, vows to ‘re-engage with Congress’
04-30-2013
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http://rt.com
US President Barack Obama has pledged to reengage with Congress in an effort to shut the Guantanamo Bay prison. He also praised Russia for being “very cooperative” in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
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News The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
04-19-2013
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Business Insider
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA) by a vote of 288 to 127, RT reports.
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News House Passes CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Again
04-18-2013
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technewsdaily.com
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) hasn't generated the same kind of outrage as last year's hot-button tech bills, SOPA and PIPA. Perhaps that's why it passed the United States House of Representatives so easily in the last Con
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News NASA Needs Help to Hunt City-Destroying Asteroids, Congress Says
04-12-2013
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space.com
It is time for the private sector to aid in the search for potentially city-destroying asteroids and meteors, lawmakers said during a hearing Wednesday (April 10).
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News New documents raise more questions about financing of McDonnell’s daughter’s wedding
04-09-2013
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Washington Post
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has said his daughter and her husband paid for their own wedding. So a $15,000 check from a major campaign donor to pay for the food at the affair was a gift to the bride and groom and not to him and therefore did no
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News Congress returns to try to reach final deals on major issues of immigration, gun control
04-08-2013
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http://www.foxnews.com
Congress returns Monday for a pivotal week in which lawmakers will attempt to reach agreements on proposals for gun-control and immigration-reform -- perhaps the two biggest issues in Washington this year.
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News Obama Calls On Congress To Spend $100M Next Year To Map Brain
04-05-2013
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washington.cbslocal.com
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain’s activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.
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News Tea Party lashes out at ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
04-04-2013
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http://rt.com
Members of the Tea Party have joined protesters standing up against the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’, calling the provision a ‘special interest loophole’ for friends of Congress.
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News Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan
04-02-2013
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apnews.myway.com
With an announcement of sweeping proposals to curb gun violence, Connecticut lawmakers said they are hoping to send a message to Congress and other state legislators across the country: A bipartisan agreement on gun control is possible.
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News Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who don’t have insurance
04-02-2013
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dailycaller.com
A contingent of liberal Democrats in Congress is proposing a new federal gun control idea: mandatory liability insurance for gun owners.
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News 'Fiddling While the Pentagon Burns'
03-29-2013
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weeklystandard.com
Much has been made of the fact that the new spending bill passed by Congress this past month has given the Defense Department both $10 billion additional dollars to help alleviate the shortfalls in its operations and maintenance accounts ....
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News Congressional Abdication on Foreign Policy
03-29-2013
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Daily Paul.com
Former Democratic Senator Jim Webb decries the fact that Congress has surrendered its foreign policy and warmaking powers to the office of the president:
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News Congress Backs Borderless Internet Sales Tax (And So Does Amazon)
03-26-2013
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Wired.com
The fairy tale of Washington bipartisanship became a reality, if however briefly, as Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate united behind what’s typically the thorniest subject in politics: taxes.
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News Why I totally support background checks... for members of Congress and the Obama administration
03-25-2013
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naturalnews.com
In the midst of the big debate about "background checks," I thought it important to weigh in on the issue and profess my full and total support for background checks... for members of Congress.
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News U.S. Senate Passes a Budget; Now the Work Begins
03-24-2013
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Free Press Publications
For the first time in 4 years, the U.S. Senate has passed a budget, as opposed to a continuing appropriations resolution which authorizes government agencies to fund their agencies at the current level until either the resolution expires, or an appro
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Darryl Perry
News Obama presses Congress to vote on gun-control measures
03-23-2013
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Prison Planet
President Obama in his weekly address urged both chambers of Congress to hold a vote on a series of gun-control measures, including the controversial assault weapons ban and a limit on magazine sizes.
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News Out of Control Derivative Trade Threatens the U.S. Economy
03-21-2013
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Washington's Blo
Congress Never Fixed the Financial System … And Is About to Make It Even Worse
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News 'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress
03-21-2013
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naturalnews.com
The U.S. Congress is right now moving forward with the passage of the 2013 Agricultural Appropriations Bill
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News Congressmen Demand DHS Explain 1.6 Billion Bullets Purchase
03-20-2013
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freedomoutpost.com
Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ) has come out and demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano explain why the Department of Homeland Security has been engaging in huge amounts of purchases of ammunition over the past year.
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News Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession
03-17-2013
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Rawstory
A Republican lawmaker in New York who has a record of voting against medical marijuana legalization has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.
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News President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones
03-15-2013
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politico.com
President Barack Obama’s defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.
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Reference Link Drone Filibuster (cartoon)
Tristan Shoubt
Via the SuppleMentally blog at WordPress.com, here's the latest cartoon from Tristan Shoubt with a typically odd slant on Senator Rand's filibuster on drones. To share, link to the blog page or write for permission to tristan.shoubt@comcast.net.
Entered by: Jefferson Paine
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Headlines: Drone Filibuster (cartoon) -- President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones
-- Anti-marijuana New York assemblyman busted for weed possession -- Congressmen Demand DHS Explain 1.6 Billion Bullets Purchase
-- Congressman Fights To Stop “Flying Robots Endlessly Watching Americans” -- 'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress -- Out of Control Derivative Trade Threatens the U.S. Economy -- Obama presses Congress to vote on gun-control measures -- U.S. Senate Passes a Budget; Now the Work Begins -- Why I totally support background checks... for members of Congress and the Obama administration
-- Congress Backs Borderless Internet Sales Tax (And So Does Amazon) -- Congressman Vows To End TSA Screening -- Congressional Abdication on Foreign Policy -- 'Fiddling While the Pentagon Burns' -- If You Don't Believe Me.... -- Democrats propose $10,000 fine for gun owners who don’t have insurance
-- Conn. lawmakers unveil bipartisan gun control plan
-- Tea Party lashes out at ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ -- Marijuana Has Won The War On Drugs -- Obama Calls On Congress To Spend $100M Next Year To Map Brain -- Congress returns to try to reach final deals on major issues of immigration, gun control
-- New documents raise more questions about financing of McDonnell’s daughter’s wedding -- NASA Needs Help to Hunt City-Destroying Asteroids, Congress Says -- House Passes CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Again -- The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
-- Obama says Guantanamo must close, vows to ‘re-engage with Congress’ -- How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself -- Oh My… Breaking: Holder Justice Department Also Tapped House of Representatives Cloak Room -- Congress Questions Larry Page Over Google Glass --