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Cities, States Act Alone to Thwart Global Warming
With Washington lawmakers deadlocked on how best to curb global warming, state and local officials across the country are adopting ambitious policies and forming international alliances aimed at reducing... ...
Bush Planning Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Cuts
The Bush administration has begun sounding out lawmakers and other key figures about mounting a new bipartisan effort to rein in the costs of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security after the midterm elections. http://www.tru thout.org/docs_2006/081106 O.shtml ...
Anti-War Challengers Across US Get a Vote of Confidence
In October 2002, lawmakers in Congress were presented with a pre-election test about where they stood on Iraq, and most answered it by siding with President Bush, voting to authorize his use of force against... ...
Memo to lawmakers: consider our values
Christian Science Monitor by Steven R. Ratner 08/08/06 The White House and Congress are embroiled in negotiations over legislation to address the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was... ...
US Activists, Iraqi Lawmakers Demand US Troop Withdrawal
"Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden and 13 other US activists on Saturday joined Iraqi lawmakers in demanding a timetable be fixed for withdrawing US troops from Iraq. http://www.truthout .org/docs_2006/080606G.sht ml ...
White House Asks Congress to Define War Crimes
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has pressed Congress to refine the definition of war crimes prohibited under the Geneva Conventions, as the Bush administration and lawmakers continue to debate the rules... ...
Administration, Congress Eye "Liberation" of Cuba
The White House and Congress, caught unaware by Fidel Castro's illness, prepared Wednesday for a possible showdown in Cuba as lawmakers drafted legislation that would give millions of dollars to dissidents... ...
Senate to Vote on Allowing Offshore Drilling
With war raging in an oil-rich part of the world, interest in tapping domestic sources of the precious resource is becoming more acute. At stake is a moratorium - renewed annually by Congress since 1981... ...
Stop The SECRET Plan To Gut Our Environmental Laws: OPPOSE SUNSET COMMISSIONS, H.R. 3282 AND H.R. 5766
ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/wri ght/pnum428.php Two bills are moving rapidly through the U.S. House of Representatives that would undermine or eliminate critical public health and environmental... ...
Four Republican candidates votes in Congress have put special interest profits before the public good
If the paint sticks, sling it In These Times by Joel Bleifuss 07/25/06 "Perha ps you have thought, 'If the voters knew how venal a GOP member of Congress was, they could never get re-elected.' MoveOn... ...