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Restore Accountability: Six Things to Know About Our $666 Billion Deficit
The results are in, and it doesn’t look good. Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on the Fiscal Year 2017 budget deficit (fiscal years end on Sept. 30th). The final tally was an ominous $666 billion deficit – a shortfall that will add to our $20 trillion …
Last Week In Congress: Tightening Up FEMA, Help for Small Businesses in Raising Money
This week both houses of Congress are observing Veterans’ Day. That means they are taking Friday off. It also means that they are using this week to load the legislative calendar with much-needed bills related to veterans’ affairs. The House has already passed a number of these bills, including the …
Marjorie Cohn: “Mattis, Tillerson Want Blank Check to Wage Illegal War”
Via Truthout Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 30 that the Trump administration has all the legal authority it needs to kill people anywhere in the world. But just in case Congress wishes to update its old Authorization …
Marjorie Cohn: Trump Is Killing Record Numbers of Civilians
Via Truthout During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump advocated killing innocent families of suspected terrorists. “When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families,” he declared. Besides the immorality of killing innocents, the targeting of civilians violates the Geneva Conventions. The George W. Bush administration unlawfully …
Trump Strips Birth Control Coverage From Millions of Women
In October, the Trump administration issued a rule to allow employers, insurance companies, and universities to deny coverage of contraception to their employees. This denial of coverage will surely change the lives of 64 million women who were able to access affordable birth control thanks to an Obama-era rule, and …
HEALTH CARE BILL EXEMPTS FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND FAMILIES FROM NEW HEALTH CARE COSTS…OOPS, NOT YOU
Good Morning. Urgent alert. Read the Health Care bill and use BillCam to tweet the bill sponsors and your rep — they vote on Wednesday. Scott Wells read the bill and found that — oops, the Federal Government exempted its own employees from the costs of health care under this …
TWEET SEN. DIANE BLACK OF TENNESSEE, HEALTH CARE BILL SPONSOR. NO MORE PRE OR POST BABY CARE…
If you do or don’t love the proposed Republican health care bill — tweet the bill and your comment about it to its sponsor. @RepDianeBlack is the sponsor. Also: @votedianeblack And: @GovDianeBlack She says of herself: “I am Diane Black, a real person and definitely not Donald Trump with a …
YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT THE PROPOSED REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE BILL DOES. IZIAH EXPLAINS.
WHAT IS IT? The Graham-Cassidy Amendment to the American Health Care Act of 2017 (HR-1628) WHO SPONSORED IT? Amendment Sponsors: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Bill Sponsor: Sen. Diane Black (R-TN) Released: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 WHAT DOES …
WE READ THE BILL! LOSE EMPLOYERS’ INSURANCE…PRE AND POST BABY CARE…ER VISITS…PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
We have READ the health care bill proposed by the Republicans, due to be voted on this week. Did you know that the Republican health care bill that they want to pass this week, the Graham Cassidy amandment to change Obamacare, would let states get rid of the obligation for …
Marjorie Cohn: Will Judge Overturn Arpaio Pardon?
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio gestures to the crowd while delivering a speech on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: John Moore / Getty Images) Via Truthout When Donald Trump plunged a dagger through the …
House Bill Cuts SNAP, EPA, Planned Parenthood – Builds “The Wall”, ICE and more: This Week In Congress
Here’s the legislative calendar for the week of Monday, September 11, 2017- including a special MONSTER BILL ALERT! H.R. 3219 is “12 BILLS IN ONE”: $1.57 BILLION TO BUILD A SOUTHERN BORDER WALL; $3.1 BILLION TO ISRAEL; CUTS TO FOOD FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN; FEDERAL DEFUNDING OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD; 354 …
Free Speech or Safety on Campus: Why Do We Have To Choose?
The United States is supposed to be a country in which free speech is protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution. But is it really — on American college campuses? Colleges and Universities are supposed to be places that prepare millennials for the future. But many of them have …
Immigration Fairness Act – A Fix to the Green Card Backlog?
Recently, there has been a lot of debate on the influx of immigrants into the country. Additionally, there has been a significant backlog on green cards — citizens of some countries like China and India may have to wait decades to gain employment and citizenship status in America. The Fairness …
This Week in Congress: Reps and Dems Agree on Sanctioning “America’s Adversaries”
Congress is on vacation until the first week of September, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of legislation to talk about. Before the House and Senate took their August breaks, the two legislative bodies were actually able to pass bills. Congress was able to make bipartisan laws regarding sanctions. …
Maloney Rings Nasdaq Opening Bell in honor of Women’s Equality Day
Iziah Thompson represented DailyClout, top-left corner Press Release via the office of Rep Carolyn Maloney Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) today rang the Opening Bell at NASDAQ in honor of Women’s Equality Day, which falls on August 26 and commemorates the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment. Rep. Maloney was …
Bill Gives New Bandwidth to “The Internet of Things”
DIGIT Act: Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things S. 88 – Sponsored by Senator Deb Fisher (R-NE) The following bill is concerned with the up-and-coming technology called “The Internet of Things.” The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept in which massive numbers of devices are connected to …