Congress – Page 20

Senate Kills Estate Tax and Minimum Wage Hikes

August 4, 2006 John Estate Tax, Minimum Wage, senate

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, said. “And we are turning our back on the middle-class and poor people in this country who depend on the minimum wage and death-tax relief.” yes..all those minimum wage slobs with their $4.5 million estates getting wacked with death taxes…..Oh the horror!

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Where’s Jefferson When You Need Him?

July 5, 2006July 5, 2006 John Declaration of Independance, Founding Fathers, July 4th, Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Something A Little Queer in Congress?

June 25, 2006June 25, 2006 John Constitutional Amendment, discrimination, Marriage, Prohibition, senate, Spong

I’ve let the dust settle some from the recent insistence of Congressional Republicans to throw their “base” a bone. I am referring to, of course, the recent attempt to ingrain discrimination against gay people into the Constitution.

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Senate Kills Bill to Police Haliburton

June 21, 2006 John Byron Dorgan, Defense Appropriation Bill, haliburton, Iraq War, KBR, S.AMDT.4230

In an effort to stop companies like Halliburton and its subsidiaries from cheating our troops and stealing from Americans, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), introduced S.AMDT.4230 and attached it to the Defense Authorization bill currently being debated in the Senate. The bill was intended to improve contracting “by eliminating fraud and abuse and improving competition in contracting and procurement.”

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First Amendment Poised for Repeal

June 15, 2006 John Constitutional Amendments, First Amendment, Flag Burning

In even numbered years, Republicans attack the Constitution. Having failed to write homophobia into the Bill of Rights, Republicans are reduced to making their biennial appeal for a partial repeal of the First Amendment. When Democrats are dared to support the rights of (relatively rare) flag burners, they need to make clear that it is the Constitution they support.