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The world is heating up dramatically — even as the Center for Public Integrity reports that “Fossil fuel giants spent millions on lobbying, inauguration during early 2017.” Last week also, an iceberg off the coast of Antarctica — snapped. This thing is huge — one of the largest icebergs ever …

Yesterday, Representative Mike Moon (R-MO) responded directly to a DailyClout opinion piece about his abortion bill, HB-1014, the Never Again Act. It would put a display of abortion processes and instruments in a section of the Missouri Historical Museum, next to the section on slavery. Last week, DailyClout had reported …

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned on Friday morning, according to multiple officials within the Trump Administration. According to CNN, staffers in the White House are shocked by this abrupt development, and the President himself asked Mr. Spicer to stay. Why did Spicer resign? According to The New York …

In case you missed it, DailyClout recently unveiled a set of new laws state by state, so-called “ag-gag bills”, that fine or arrest critics of animal abuse who videotape that abuse. For those who care about this issue, here are resources: Make sure to connect with like-minded people on Civ …

Abortion rights advocates often tire of metaphors from men about what abortion really is. Here’s a new one: is it like killing a chicken on Facebook? Last month, Representative Mike Moon (R-MO), a Missouri State representative, conducted a Facebook Live video in which he cut off a live chicken’s head, …

Did you think you would never have to hear the term “Net Neutrality” again? Well, the fight over that complex “internet thing,” Net Neutrality, is back — and it is as tough to sort out as ever. “Net Neutrality” is what we have now — that is at risk of …

via What the Edge with Sallie Krawcheck This one’s for the daughters. And the lives we want for them. I really adore men. I love my gentlemanly father. My brother is my best friend. My husband keeps us all together. And my son is dead set on fighting the world’s …

The defection of two more GOP Senators from supporting a replacement bill to do away with Obamacare, has put the future of the proposed Better Care Act, on shaky ground indeed. This past Monday night, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) joined the list of GOP Senators who …

Stop the presses — this bill, HR 2997, transfers ALL Federal aviation resources and activities to an ill-defined nonprofit corporation that is allowed to operate under any name or names it chooses. It forbids any other entity from managing any other aviation activities in the US, except for the Department …

Last Friday, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) underwent serious surgery — to remove a two-inch blood clot from above his left eye. Sen. McCain’s recovery from the surgery will delay his return to Washington, and this delay may ultimately stall the vote on the Obamacare-replacing Health Care bill. Senate Majority Leader, …

The Week of Monday, July 17, 2017 Congress is tackling bills this week that range widely, from big infrastructure changes, to bills addressing the future of hydroelectric energy. The three bills that Daily Clout chose for you to watch this week are the Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act, the Enhancing …

It’s a Congressional tradition to take off the entire month of August. But not this year! Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who is pushing to pass the new Health Care bill, decided this past Tuesday that the Senate will remain in session for the first two weeks of August. …

This week Daily Clout uses BillCam to take a look at the new Health Care legislation in the Senate. Everyone wants to know what’s in the recent version of the American Healthcare Act, which was created behind closed doors in the Senate. We’ve cut through the legal language to bring …

The Week of Monday, July 10, 2017 Congress is tackling bills this week that range widely, from one that ensures a huge military budget, to a bill addressing global sex trafficking. The three bills that DailyClout chose for you to watch are the National Defense Authorization Act, the Medical Controlled …

Hey all — big news. The AHCA, the Republicans’ health care bill, has had a postponement on the vote….leadership announced that the vote is pushed back till after the holiday. Maybe all of that citizen feedback — including the fact that you can FIND and SHARE the AHCA in BillCam …

From Naomi’s inbox, by Alex Gangitano at RollCall.com: “A total of two-hundred twenty-seven House members have signed to the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act (H.B. 19) as of this week. ‘In the most hostile Congress in history, we have found something we can all agree on and that is a …

While the nation’s attention was focused on James Comey giving his testimony about his departure as director of the FBI, the House passed the Financial Choice Act, which makes major changes to rules established after the 2008 financial meltdown. This bill gives what President Trump has called a “very major haircut” to a law known as Dodd-Frank. …

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian,” stated rock legend Paul McCartney in 2009. Most people know about the growing uproar around the ethics of producing and consuming animal products. With the rise of the vegetarian and vegan movements, more people than ever are demanding to know: …

This past week, DailyClout hosted a Rapi Castillo, who is a coder, and Kathryn Jones, who is the Executive Director of Resistance Media Collective. They spoke about their work, along with that of other graphic artists, hackers and designers, including animators and filmmakers, in the Universal Health Action Blitz, to …

A shout out to our pioneers who are women in the sciences and medicine — whose breakthroughs, history shows, are often under-recognized in medical or scientific history. Dr. Nancy Kemeny of Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital is responsible for groundbreaking research.   She came to this country as a child without …