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Saturday July 08, 2006
Why does Voting Rights Act preclearance have congressmen from Georgia and Texas "crying wolf"? Well, there's an old Southern saying: "The dog that howls the most is the one who's been hit."
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Thursday May 25, 2006
This weekend’s announcement of a new, permanent Iraqi government should not be greeted with the fanfare given to it by the President.
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Thursday May 25, 2006
Nearly two years ago, on June 24th, 2004, I stood with the Congressional Black Caucus, Leader Pelosi and Tom Tancredo, and introduced H CON RES 467, declaring that genocide was occurring in Darfur, Sudan and that the Government of Sudan was responsible. This is the government which harbored Osama bin Laden. Tragically, and to our own shame, the genocide continues today – almost two years later -- unabated.
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Wednesday May 17, 2006
An unmarked plane arrives in the middle of the night carrying un-uniformed men with black hoods. The hooded men grab prisoners out of the hands of government officials, cut off their clothes off with sharp tools, drug them on the spot, shackle them, board the prisoners onto the plane and take off into the night. When the ‘torture’ plane disappears – no one knows where and when the captives will appear and what will happen to them: electrocution, beatings, sexual abuse. At first guess, you might imagine that this terrible racket is the work of a drug cartel or a rogue member of the ‘axis of evil’, but in fact the scene described involves U.S. officials in a routine part of the Bush Administration practice of rendition – the ‘outsourcing of torture.’
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Monday May 15, 2006
Recently Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. submitted an Industrial Bank Application Package to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to form Wal-Mart Bank as a Utah industrial bank. While one portion of the application has been made public, two volumes remain confidential.
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Thursday May 11, 2006
The implementation of the Medicare Part D drug benefit is already revealing inherent flaws in the program’s design. In addition to the overwhelming number of choices faced by seniors and the complications with enrollment and use, with no authority to negotiate prices, no other meaningful cost containment mechanisms, and an insufficient benefit for most enrollees to boot, it is clear that the plan requires meaningful legislative reform.
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Thursday May 04, 2006
America’s families need relief from high gas and energy prices. The government must promote energy independence, efficiency, and conservation. We must create and support policies, projects, and legislation that will reduce our reliance on foreign oil.
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Monday May 01, 2006
was arrested on Friday.
In Washington, D.C., I joined with five other members of the U.S. Congress, including my Massachusetts colleague, John W. Olver, and several religious leaders to express our outrage at Sudan’s genocide against a helpless population. More than 300,000 victims — including many children — have been butchered and burned in Sudan’s western region of Darfur by forces aligned with the government of Sudan. Our group trespassed on Sudanese embassy grounds in an act of non-violent civil disobedience, demanding that the Sudanese government end the genocide.
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Thursday April 13, 2006
Back in February, I along with 30 other members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) sent a letter to Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, respectively, urging them to oppose an “a la carte” pricing system for cable and direct broadcast satellite services. This letter was also forwarded to some of my other congressional colleagues as well as members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Tuesday April 11, 2006
In New York at the United Nations last week, the United States shot itself in the foot. How? The Bush administration sacrificed profound American interests and values in order to appease its ideological base when it announced that it will not seek a seat in the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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