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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.