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Yesterday | The Nation

Congress Checks and Balances on Afghanistan; Will It Do So With Syria?

The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential warmaking.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative John Garamendi, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Republican, Darrell Issa

Monday | MSNBC

Programming notes

*** Monday's "Jansing & Co." line-up : Guests include Chuck Todd live from Ireland for today's start of the G-8 Summit, David Corn/Mother Jones Peter Beinart/TheDailyBeast and Anne Gearan/The Washington Post on the topics expected to dominate the G-8 including the Syria crisis Iran elections and the NSA spying controversy, Joy-Ann Reid/TheGrio ... (more)

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Related Topix: The Daily Rundown, Entertainment, Television, Mario Diaz-Balart, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Immigration Reform, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Richard Blumenthal

Monday | Kansas City InfoZine

House Members Protest Farm Bill by Eating on Food Stamp Budget

By Jacqueline DelPilar - Eating on $4.50 per day is a reality for many Americans who receive food stamps, and proposed budget cuts may cut that that number.

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Related Topix: US News, Medicine, Nutrition, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, John Conyers

Monday | US News & World Report

The War on Terror Has Not Made Us Safer

Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, US News, George Bush, W., US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, World News, Asia, Afghanistan

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Salon

Is this the end of HIV-criminalization in the military?

A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Defense to conduct an internal review of policies and prosecutions related to military members living with HIV.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Switched

Bill Would Ban Drone Strikes Against U.S. Citizens

There's one measure that quietly passed in the House along with Friday's massive defense bill that libertarians may like: a ban on drone strikes against U.S. citizens.

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Related Topix: US News, Representative Paul Broun, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Boeing

New York Magazine

Trent Franks's Abortion Ban Now Has a Rape Exception

Rep. Trent Franks listens during a news conference for the launch of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus on Capitol Hill on September 15, 2011 in Washington, DC.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Trent Franks, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Abortion, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), Democrat, Jim McDermott

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Politico

Hill Dems try to eat on $4.50 a day

More than two dozen members of Congress are eating on a budget of $4.50 a day this week, taking the SNAP challenge to live on the average budget of a food stamp recipient.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Representative Mark Pocan, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Thu Jun 13, 2013

Daily Kos

More than two dozen House Democrats doing SNAP challenge to protest Republican cuts

As the Republican-led House prepares to vote for deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, more than two dozen House Democrats are doing a SNAP challenge, feeding themselves for a week on the average benefit level of about $4.50 a day.

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Related Topix: US News, Life, Food, Nutrition, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Barack Obama

Examiner.com

SNAP Challenge list of participants bring awareness to farm bill cuts

The proposed changes in the farm bill will allegedly deny access to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program to an additional two million Americans, according to an article from ThinkProgress.org on June 13. Due to the cut-backs, 26 members of Congress are participating in a SNAP Challenge this week .

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Related Topix: US News, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Democrat

Pasadena Weekly

One nation under surveillance

Since The Guardian and The Washington Post first reported last week on widespread government surveillance of American Internet and telephone accounts, local congressional representatives Adam Schiff and Judy Chu have remained uncharacteristically mum on the controversy.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat, Representative Judy Chu, Pasadena, CA, Terrorism

OpEdNews

Clarity from Edward Snowden and Murky Response from Progressive Leaders in Congress

House Speaker John Boehner calls Edward Snowden a "traitor." The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, labels his brave whistleblowing "an act of treason."

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Related Topix: US News, Dianne Feinstein, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Patriot Act, US House of Representatives, Michael Honda, Representative Judy Chu

Wed Jun 12, 2013

Daily Kos

Rep. Barbara Lee plans Audit the Pentagon amendment

House Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Barbara Lee plans to offer this week an Audit the Pentagon floor amendment to HR 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Republican, Michael Burgess

The Miami Herald

Calif. lawmakers press for immigrant benefits and more in defense bill

An immigrant’s military service could be a path to legal U.S. residency, if Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., gets his way.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Jeff Denham, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative John Garamendi, Representative Jackie Speier, Representative Jerry McNerney, Prison

The Hill

House Appropriations panel approves $512 billion Pentagon spending bill

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed a $512.5 billion Defense bill over objections from Democrats who complained the measure ignored spending caps under sequestration.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Nita Lowey, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Betty McCollum

Tue Jun 11, 2013

Roll Call

Colleagues Gather in D.C. to Memorialize Staffer

Colleagues and friends of former congressional staffer Michael Taylor Riggs will gather Thursday for a Washington memorial to remember the longtime public health policy advocate.

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Related Topix: Health Care Policy, Health, Tuba City, AZ, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Mon Jun 10, 2013

TreeHugger

Women Must Be Heard in the Climate Change Debate

Every day, in countless places around the world, women's lives and livelihoods are being threatened by forces beyond their control.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Weather, Nigeria, World News, Africa, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Politico

Schiff to intro bill ending war on terror authorization

Rep. Adam Schiff Tuesday will introduce a bill to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which Congress passed after the Sept.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat, Terrorism

Fri Jun 07, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Get rid of those outdated HIV laws

A bipartisan bill introduced in the House calls for a review of state laws that criminalize behavior by people with HIV, including many laws that seem anachronistic or inappropriate given what has been learned during the last three decades about the transmission and treatment of the virus that causes AIDS.

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Related Topix: US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Republican, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Thu Jun 06, 2013

Cybercast News Service

5 Democrats Turn Out to Support Legal Pot, And 3 Say They've Never Smoked It

At least five Democrats joined members of the National Cannabis Industry Association at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday to urge passage of legislation that would make marijuana legal -- and taxable.

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Related Topix: Marijuana, US News, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Earl Blumenauer, Democrat, Representative Jared Polis, Representative Ed Perlmutter