Public Congress

During a floor statement on July 22, Congressman Joe Courtney again called on Members of Congress who accept taxpayer subsidized health care while opposing reform to “take a look in the mirror”. The Congressman reminded Members of Congress that the heavily subsidized health care they receive is selected through a public exchange, the same type of exchange proposed in the Americas Affordable Health Choices Act.

The Connecticut Congressman, who refuses to accept taxpayer subsidized health care until all Americans have access to affordable coverage, gave Americans the following homework assignment:

“Every taxpayer and every citizen of this country should ask that question of their Member of Congress when the times comes to vote, ‘Are you prepared to stand up and vote for a plan which will give us what we give you?’”

Copy the following link to see what your Member of Congress may be paying for health care: http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/rates/nonpostalhmo2009.pdf

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I do not know Natural Solutions Foundation Medical Director Rima E. Laibow MD or any of their products/motives/agendas. BUT her discussion of the Swine Flu and the un-insurable, untested, dangerous vaccines being foisted on the public is correct here and what she is talking about relates to this pdf-
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA)-
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA.pdf

Please see my video:The Pandemic/Quarantine law In 60 seconds! which has more info of the small print laws they are not telling US citizens.-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3APNol6SU
Quarantine Centers-
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/quarantine_stations.htm
Homeland Security Act of 2002-
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ296.107
FEMA-
http://www.fema.gov/about/history.shtm
Project Bioshield Act of 2004-
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ276.108.pdf
Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006-
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ417.109.pdf
National Biodefense Science Board-
http://www.hhs.gov/aspr/omsph/nbsb/
BARDA-
http://www.hhs.gov/aspr/barda/
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)-
http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/13/7/1046.htm
opposed certain provisions in the Homeland Security Act of 2002-
http://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/homeland-security/homeland-security.aspx
Bioshield legislation-
http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/Homeland-Security/2005_11-15_NVIC_Sen-Burr_BioShield-2_v7.aspx
responsible congressional oversight-
http://www.nvic.org/Downloads/Homeland-Security/NVIC-letter.aspx
Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA)-
http://www.publichealthlaw.net/MSEHPA/MSEHPA.pdf
funded, developed and promoted by Centers for Disease Control-
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/medical/14857res20020101.html
opposed granting state public health officials expanded police powers-
http://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/newsletter/forcedvaccination.aspx
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878-
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/Articles/Trebilcock.htm
U.S. Coast Guard-
http://www.uscg.mil/top/about/
applicable U.S. laws-
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg531/
U.S. Congress modified the Insurrection Act of 1807-
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=170453
Department of Defense-
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:1yMJ5ZjVFOoJ:assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40619_20090604.pdf+The+Department+of+Homeland+Security,+role+of+DOD&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
local police-
http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display&article_id=807&issue_id=22006
NVICs website-
http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
2009 H1N1 Flu Legal Preparedness -
http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/H1N1flu.asp

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White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing. (public domain)

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http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/4301-american-government-campaign-finance

This lesson was selected from a broader, comprehensive course, American Government. This course and others are available from Thinkwell, Inc. The full course can be found at http://www.thinkwell.com/student/product/americangovernment. The full course covers constitutional principles, civil liberties, civil rights, people and politics, choosing representatives, political institutions, public policy, key Supreme Court cases, changes in democracy, and more. The course features three renowned professors: Gerald Rosenberg, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Mark Rom, an Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Matthew Dickinson, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College.

Gerald Rosenberg directs the American Politics Workshop and lectures at the law school at the University of Chicago. He holds a Masters Degree in Politics and Philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford University, has a law degree from the University of Michigan, and has a Ph.D. from Yale. As a specialist on the judiciary, Prof. Rosenberg is the author of The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? and spent the 2000-2001 academic year teaching at Northwestern University Law School as Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. He has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent the 2002-2003 academic year teaching US law at Xiamen University in China. He has also been awarded the Llewellyn John & Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago.

A three-time winner of his school’s Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Mark Rom received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and worked for four years as a senior social science analyst for the General Accounting Office. Prof. Rom is the author of Fatal Extraction: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV, Poisoning Public Health, Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy, and coauthor of Welfare Magnets: A New Case for a National Standard.

Matthew Dickinson received his Ph.D. from Harvard. A specialist on the presidency, he is the author of Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch. Prof. Dickinson has published numerous articles and has provided television commentary on the presidency, presidential decision-making, and presidential advisers. His current research examines the growth of presidential staff in the post-World War II era.

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A short video documenting the first of two plaque unveilings that took place on September 30, 2006 at Beauport Armoury and Val Cartier both near Quebec City, Canada.

The plaques are commemorating two of the 24 WWI internment camps across Canada that held of 8000 Eastern Europeans, 5000 of whom were Ukrainian. The Ukrainians were targeted because the area that they came from was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, with which Canada and its allies were at war. The Canadian government took advantage of the situation and used the internees as cheap labour to do public works. This was Canada’s first internment operation and application of the War Measures act. It continued from 1914-1920, some internees being held even after the war ended. This episode of Canadian history is little known. Inky Mark, MP, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and many other volunteers across Canada worked for years to have the government recognize this injustice. Inky Mark introduced Bill C-331 (Ukrainian Canadian Restitution Act) and was accepted in 2005. (see links http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/bill_c-331/)

The following people are seen in the video: Dr. LUBOMYR LUCIUK (Director of Research, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association), KIM PAWLIW reading poem (Grand-daughter of internee), ANNE SADELAIN unveiling plaque (Daughter of internee), Priests from the Ukrainian Catholic REV. OLEH KORETSKY and Ukrainian Orthodox REV. Dr. IHOR KUTASH churches bless the plaque, and NANCY LYZANIWSKI presents remarks.

For information on the internment: For information
on the internment: http://www.uccla.ca/internment.htm | http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/ | http://www.quebec-ukraine.com/lib/quebec/maltraites_1.html | http://www.quebec-ukraine.com/news/ev/2006_internement_memory.html

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http://transparencycaucus.org/

Transparency Made Easy: How to Make the Government More Open and Accountable.

Harlan Yu, a member of the Transparency Advisory Committee, speaks about the barriers to accessing public court records. Yu is the creator of RECAP, a Firefox plugin that gives free and easy public access to PACER, the federal court record database.

On June 22, 2010, the Advisory Committee on Transparency, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, met with congressional staffers for a focused conversation on issues related to contractor performance oversight, access to federal court records, and online access to Congressional Ethics Information.

We invite your ideas, comments, and expressions of interest for future meetings at act(at)sunlightfoundation.com

Panelists:
*Daniel Schuman, Director, Advisory Committee on Transparency, Policy Council for the Sunlight Foundation, and Moderator
*Scott Amery, General Council, Project on Government Oversight
*Harlan Yu, Center for Information Technology, Princeton University

For more information, please visit http://transparencycaucus.org/

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Pamela Gorman, Republican Candidate for Congress in AZ-3, speaks on energy at the Carefree/Cave creek Tea Party. Concerned about energy independence? Support Gorman for Congress: https://secure.qgiv.com/cps_donors/?key=pamelagorman

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BREAKING NEWS: We have confirmed that the federal budget planned for fiscal year 2011 has been canceled.

The cause: Washington Democrats’ out-of-control spending spree.

We are here now outside the Capitol awaiting an apology from Washington Democrats for this betrayal of hard-working American taxpayers.

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The signing of this Directive was generally not covered by the mainstream U.S. media or discussed by the U.S. Congress. While similar executive security directives have been issued by previous presidents, their texts have been kept secret; this is the first to be made public in part. It is unclear how the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive will reconcile with the National Emergencies Act, a U.S. federal law passed in 1976, which gives Congress oversight over presidential emergency powers during such emergencies. The National Emergencies Act is not mentioned in the text of the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive.

After receiving concerned communications from constituents, in July 2007 U.S. Representative and Homeland Security Committee member Peter DeFazio made an official request to examine the classified Continuity Annexes described above in a secure “bubbleroom” in the United States Capitol, but his request was denied by the White House, which cited “national security concerns

This was the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. He was quoted as saying, “We’re talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America…I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee.”

After this denial, DeFazio joined with two colleagues (Bennie Thompson, chairman of the committee; and Chris Carney, chairman of the Homeland Security oversight subcommittee) in a renewed effort to gain access to the documents.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPD_51

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There are plenty of black Democrats in congress but zero Republicans. Why?

There aren’t many black Republicans… most people don’t vote for parties that are against their interests, and Republicans are against minority interests.