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The Pampered World of Congressional Air Travel - Businessweek

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:24:15 +0000

The point is, Congress’s decision to lift the sequester was even more self-serving than you probably imagined. After casting their votes on Friday, most members raced to the airport and went home.

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Zoe Lofgren - Lofgren Opening Statement on SOPA

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:10:32 +0000

Washington, D.C. – Today the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Since Rep. Zoe Lofgren was not permitted to deliver her opening statement at the hearing, it appears below in full.

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SOPA Gives Me Powers That I Don't Want | Techdirt

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:14:41 +0000

In reality though, most of the large tech companies that exist today were once very small and very fragile. If SOPA was in place, those companies would have never grown up, since the two guys in a garage would have required four lawyers to survive. Dropbox is a perfect example. Created by some college students, the company provides shared online storage space for a fee. Under SOPA, the company would have been cut off from its revenues as soon as a single accusation was made that it was hosting copyrighted material. As a small company this could have been crippling. Today though, I know that Dropbox is one of the most popular tools in the movie industry, since it allows easy sharing of new daily shots, music cues, draft movie posters and more. The innovative tech companies of the future will be extinguished before they have a chance to even get out the door.

Tags: #censorship #congress #copyfight #freedom #internet #law #sopa

Op-Ed Columnist - They Got Some ’Splainin’ to Do - NYTimes.com

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:57:20 +0000

"It’s the American way that we judge people as individuals, not as groups. And by that standard we can say unequivocally that this particular wise Latina, with the richness of her experiences, would far more often than not reach a better conclusion than the individual white males she faced in that Senate hearing room. Even those viewers who watched the Sotomayor show for only a few minutes could see that her America is our future and theirs is the rapidly receding past. "

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THE FUTUROLOGIAN CONGRESS

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:05:36 +0000

"In The Futurological Congress, Stanislaw Lem's protagonist finds himself discussing futurology with a scientist and discovers it has been superceded by futurology — the science of predicting the future by making up words and guessing what they might me

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H.R. 393: Universal National Service Act of 2007 (GovTrack.us)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:08:01 +0000

"To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service..." Repeatedly reintroduced apparently to prove a point.

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Dana Milbank - In the House, Suddenly Righteous Republicans - washingtonpost.com

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:46:46 +0000

"Anne Kornblut of the New York Times asked McHenry if his complaint might come across as whining. "I'm not whining," he whined."

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TPMmuckraker January 2, 2007 11:48 AM

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:24:49 +0000

"Republicans "have taken every one of the techniques that Democrats employed when they were in the majority, and ratcheted them up to another level," said the American Enterprise Institute scholar."

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Democrats To Start Without GOP Input - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:38:58 +0000

Republicans go QQ. "As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking."

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BREITBART.COM - McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:44:41 +0000

"McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected."

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DownsizeDC.org | Make Congress Read the Bills Campaign

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:18:13 +0000

"For Members of Congress, fiduciary responsibility means reading each word of every bill before they vote. But Congress has not met this duty for a long time."

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BobGeiger.com: Frist Blames Democratic Minority for Do-Nothing Congress, Gets Spanked

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:24:58 +0000

"Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) ... was on Frist faster than Halliburton snaps up a no-bid contract."

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Attorney General prepared to quit over Jefferson probe: NYT - Yahoo! News

Sat, 27 May 2006 14:46:15 +0000

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Breach Was More of the Spirit, Not the Letter, of the Constitution

Thu, 25 May 2006 17:35:03 +0000

"Both the search warrant for Jefferson's office and the raid to execute it were unprecedented in the 219-year history of the Constitution."

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House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files - New York Times

Thu, 25 May 2006 15:47:18 +0000

"Reckless Justice: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?"

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