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Friday | Slate

All Gosnell Everything

MySlate is a new tool that lets you track your favorite parts of Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more.

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

Friday | Daily Kos

LONG Time Coming - Rep. Adam Schiff to Intro Bill to Sunset 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force

There can be no doubt that the AUMF signed by George W. Bush in 2001 has fundamentally changed America... for the worse -- in many profoundly ugly ways.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat, George Bush, Terrorism, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul

Friday | Oakland Post

House Appropriations Committee Passes Bill Requiring Monthly Reports on VA Claims Backlog

Congresswoman Barbara Lee placed language to provide more detailed reports on the claims backlog affecting veterans in the FY2014 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Bill.

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

Friday | Oakland Post

David Glover, 60, OCCUR's Champion for Economic Justice

David Glover, the executive director of OCCUR brought renewal to every neighborhood in Oakland because he taught neighborhood leaders the skills to become advocates for equity and improvement.

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

Thu May 23, 2013

The Huffington Post

Barbara Lee: Pulling Rank: Women Lead the Charge against Military Sexual Assault

Out of great challenges come even greater opportunities to lead. The recent survey revealing 26,000 military members experienced unwanted sexual contact last year is one tragic example of this truth.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Vanderbilt University, Ohio State University, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Senate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Barbara Boxer

Fri May 17, 2013

OurFuture.org

Latest Conservative Atrocity: Farm Bill That Leaves Americans Starving

In the latest round of atrocities committed by conservatives, Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee sent to the House floor a farm bill on Wednesday that offers little food for families while dishing out corporate subsides.

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Related Topix: US News, Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Medicine, Nutrition, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rosa DeLauro

Mon May 13, 2013

Medical News

Highlights: Feds sue Fla. Senate president's former company over...

The Associated Press/Washington Post : Florida Senate President's Former Hospice Company Sued By Feds For Alleged Medicare Fraud Department of Justice is suing the hospice company founded by Florida's Senate president, accusing it of submitting tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicare claims for more than a decade, including while Don ... (more)

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Medicine, Health

Sun May 12, 2013

Samoa News

Eni represents Pac Islanders for APA month

Congressman Faleomavaega, along with fellow members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and House Democratic Leadership, celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and offered remarks to an audience of over 400 APA community leaders at the Annual CAPAC Ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Michael Honda, Nancy Pelosi, Xavier Becerra, Representative Judy Chu

Fri May 10, 2013

Food Processing

GMO Labeling Effort Reaches Washington

For months we've been writing about state efforts to label genetically modified organisms .

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Jim McDermott, George Miller, Representative Jackie Speier, Grace Napolitano, Barbara Boxer, US Senate

Daily Kos

Mother's Day: Political Moms Mobilize For Climate Change

It hasn't been a great week for moving the American environmental agenda forward.

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Related Topix: US News, Environment, Science, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, Democrat, Global Warming, Liberal Political News

Oakland Post

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen this week introduced H.R. 1843, the Repeal Existing Policies that Encourage and Allow Legal HIV Discrimination Act.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, HIV/AIDS, Health, Prison

Thu May 09, 2013

Temple City Tribune

Nurses welcome introduction of house bill to set safe RN-to-patient staffing ratios in every hospital

National Nurses United, the nation's largest organization of nurses, today greeted the re-introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives by Rep.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Janice Schakowsky, Barbara Boxer, US Senate, Brad Sherman, Zoe Lofgren

Daily Kos

What's Happenin'? 5.9.13

What's really unfortunate is that this was not streamed or covered by C-SPAN. I'm wondering if there is any video at all.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Activism, IGN Entertainment, Fox Interactive Media

Wed May 08, 2013

KTVU Oakland

Berkeley dispensary leaders vow to fight federal forfeiture lawsuit

Representatives of a Berkeley medical marijuana dispensary vowed Wednesday to fight a property forfeiture lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors last week.

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Related Topix: Berkeley, CA, Marijuana, San Francisco, CA, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

San Jose Mercury News

Barbara Lee bill would push states to roll back criminal HIV laws

California and other states would be pressured to amend or repeal criminal laws that single out HIV-positive people under a bipartisan bill co-authored and introduced this week by Rep.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Prison, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Oakland, CA

The Huffington Post

Rich Rubino: Congressional Contrarians Pay a Political Price for...

Throughout American history there have been many instances of resolutions passing the U.S. Congress almost unanimously but for a few dissenting votes, occasionally even a single vote.

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

Washington Times

Lawmakers should try simplicity

When our high school freshman recently began tackling Homer's "The Odyssey," something struck me about the Senate 's "Gang of Eight" amnesty legislation.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Tue May 07, 2013

The Guardian

Barbara Lee and Dick Durbin's 'nobody-could-have-known' defense | Glenn Greenwald

Congresswoman Barbara Lee, speaking on the House floor on September 14, 2001, in opposition to the AUMF.

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

Sun May 05, 2013

Washington Times

Joe Biden: "And then there's a snake in the bed" - 6 dumb things said

Officials ruled that the gesture violated a state scholastic rule against excessive celebration.

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

Fri May 03, 2013

Free Republic

Obama's czar pick snagged in Castro love fest

President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency went on a trip to Cuba in 2009 aimed at opening relations with the communist nation, WND has learned.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Melvin Watt, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro