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| | Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The U.S. Congress is the only constitutional legislative branch of the United States federal government | | | Head of State (president) and Head of Government (prime minister) are typically merged into one office, and cabinet members are only rarely taken from the congress. | | | The United National Congress of Trinidad and Tobago |
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| | Congress |
| | Among Republicans, 196 voted in favor of the reprimand, 26 voted against; among Democrats, 198 voted in favor, 2 voted against. | | | The bill is referred to a committee by either the Speaker of the House or the presiding officer of the Senate. | | | Whether the Republicans will sustain their control of Congress is uncertain. |
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http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/APGOV_Congress.htm
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| | Senator Harry Reid -- Democratic Leader |
| | February 28: The Senate will convene at 9:45 a.m. | | | Washington, D.C. - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and House and Senate Democrats will hold an event tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. | | | As they have in times past, Democrats will lead the charge to reform the way Washington works. |
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http://democrats.senate.gov
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| | YourCongress.com - FAQ ABOUT CONGRESS |
| | Democrats from Minnesota are from the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party. | | | There are 535 Members of Congress: 435 Representatives in the House, usually called Congressmen or Congresswomen, and 100 Senators in the Senate. | | | In the last Congress, Congressman Rodney Alexander of Louisiana switch from being a Democrat to being a Republican. |
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http://www.yourcongress.com/ViewArticle.asp?article_id=39
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| | AsianWeek.com: Feature: Asian American Democrats in Congress |
| | Matsunaga was elected to the House for the 88th-94th Congresses and served from Jan. 3, 1963 to Jan. 3, 1977. | | | She was first elected to House in the 89th Congress and served from 1965 to 1977. | | | He was elected to the 97th-100th Congresses and served from Jan. 3, 1981 until his resignation on Sept. 6, 1988. |
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http://www.asianweek.com/2000_08_10/feature2_demsincongress.html
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| | Democrats propose Congress-lobbying reforms - Boston.com |
| | Leading Senate Democrats joined her to propose reforms in the aftermath of lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty pleas this month in a wide-ranging bribery probe that has implicated at least one member of Congress, Republican Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, and some former aides to Rep Tom DeLay of Texas. | | | Democrats, meanwhile, were bracing for developments in a scandal that has fewer tentacles than Abramoff, but could implicate fellow Democratic Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana. | | | Like Republicans, Democrats would end lawmakers-turned-lobbyists access to the House or Senate floor -- retiring lawmakers and senior aides would not be allowed to lobby for two years, double the current cooling-off period. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/18/democrats_propose_congress_lobbying_reforms
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| | The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A National Struggle . The Congress PBS |
| | During the early part of the 20th century, the Presidents and the Congress worked together to decrease the number of federal appointments to blacks and to ensure that federal officials in the south were sympathetic to the cause of white supremacy. | | | By 1894, Congress ceased appropriations for federal marshals to protect black voters; meaning blacks were vulnerable to intimidation and threats of ex-confederates. | | | In 1878, the Congress forbade the use of the Army to protect black voters from the intimidation and physical violence with which they were regularly threatened at the polls. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/struggle_congress.html
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| | Poll Says Democrats Could Win Congress Back |
| | Democrats are favored 49 percent to 36 percent. | | | In that midterm election, Democrats won four open seats that previously were held by the GOP. | | | Public opinion of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress has been mixed, recent polling found. |
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http://sacunion.com/pages/nation/articles/7402
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| | Bush Slide in Polls Could Tip Congress to Democrats |
| | Democrats were dealt a blow when party incumbents in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina decided to retire. | | | In the House, where 218 seats constitute a majority, there currently are 228 Republicans, 205 Democrats, one independent who routinely votes with the Democrats and the one vacant seat. | | | In the Senate, there are 51 Republicans, 48 Democrats and one independent who usually sides with the Democrats. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0523-09.htm
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| | Democrats.com Archive: Congress |
| | You who are in Congress have a special responsibility, as your willingness to speak up and question emboldens the rest of the citizens to do the same. | | | Once again, the Republican Congress is investigating Clinton. | | | The Democratic Leadership Council recently suggested that if Congress was shut down by terrorists, Members of Congress could vote on legislation over the Internet. |
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http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Congress
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| | Republicans Expand Control of Congress, Democrats Assess Losses |
| | Perhaps the sharpest blow to Democrats came in the Senate, where Minority Leader Tom Daschle was defeated in his home state of South Dakota, the first Senate party leader in 50 years to lose a re-election bid. | | | Democrats picked up a Senate seat in Illinois, where Barack Obama, son of a Kenyan father and American mother, easily won a vacant seat, defeating a Republican challenger. | | | In the months leading to the election, House Democratic leaders predicted that as many as 14 incumbent Republicans might be defeated. |
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2004-11-03-voa88.cfm
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| | Lenin: 1903/2ndcong2: SPEECH ON THE ATTENDANCE OF THE POLISH SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS AT THE = CONGRESS |
| | A. Warski and J. Hanecki arrived at the Congress on July 22 (August 4) and Warski announced the decision of the Fourth Congress of the S.D.K.P. and L. concerning the terms for unification with the R.S.D.L.P. A special committee was elected to examine these terms. | | | The Congress formulated a number of terms for a possible merger, one of them being the demand for a change in the formulation of the R.S.D.L.P.’s Programme clause on the right of nations to self-determination. | | | The terms on which the Polish Social-Democrats could be united with the R.S.D.L.P. were discussed at the Fourth Congress of the S.D.K.P. and L. which was held from July 11 to 16 (24–29), 1903. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1903/2ndcong2/4.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Democrats optimistic for Congress |
| | In the House, Democrats hope the political mood mirrors an electoral wave similar to the one that swept Republicans and their "Contract with America" reform agenda to power in 1994. | | | They need a two-seat gain in the Senate where there are 51 Republicans, 48 Democrats and one independent who usually votes with Democrats. | | | But the electoral map overall does not favor Democrats because many of the closest Senate contests are in conservative states and relatively few House seats have competitive races. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2004-07-05-dems-congress_x.htm
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| | ICT [2002/11/10] Why the Democrats lost the Congress |
| | It's not as though the Republicans in the Executive Branch or in the Congress have a coherent Indian affairs policy. | | | The Democrats lost the Congress, and they lost it because they decided to use fear as their platform. | | | This year, though, the Democratic leadership failed to give us any reason to vote for Democrats, only reasons to vote against Republicans. |
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http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1036681548
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| | Democrats endorse Willoughby for US Congress |
| | Informed Democrats and other moderate voters are well aware of his radical ideological voting record. | | | Club president Lynda von Husen expressed the importance of Democrats and other mainstream voters changing the balance of power in the US Congress. | | | Morgan, also the club's voter registration chairman, emphasized the importance of voter education and mobilizing Democratic voters. |
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http://www.democrats-hd.org/willoughbyendorsement.html
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| | HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - Conservative News, Views & Books -- |
| | Democrats, however, have shown little willingness to cooperate with Frist and allow the Senate to have an up-or-down vote on Bush's judicial nominees. | | | In fact, when Bush renominated 20 judicial candidates on Dec. 23 who didn't win confirmation in the 108th Congress, Democrats immediately pounced on the President. | | | Majority Leader Bill Frist (R.-Tenn.) said Tuesday he wouldn't change the Senate's filibuster rule at the start of the 109th Congress, essentially preserving the Democrats' ability to block President Bush's judicial nominees from winning Senate confirmation. |
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6200
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| | What's on the Back Burner in the New Congress? |
| | On a side note, look for Democrats to also try to test Bush for his willingness to veto hate-crimes legislation or possibly to tackle other issues like racial disparities in death row cases. | | | Here's a look at some of the not-so-high priorities for Democrats in Congress this year. | | | Heavy rhetoric on gun control also scares voters away in the rural districts, where Democrats have to rebuild some inroads if they hope to capture and maintain the congressional majority. |
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http://www.evote.com/features/2001-01/backburner.asp
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| | Congress |
| | (1) Republicans and Democrats in the Senate should both have to agree that a person should be a judge, even if that takes a long time. | | | For each one, please tell me whether you think it applies to all members of Congress, most members of Congress, about half the members of Congress, fewer than half the members of Congress, or very few members of Congress. | | | Do you favor or oppose changing the rules of the Senate to stop the use of filibusters against judicial nominees? |
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http://www.pollingreport.com/congress.htm
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| | Senate Democrats stiffen on federal court nominees |
| | During the 108th Congress, the Democrats' decision to use the filibuster to block 10 of Bush's court picks became one of the most polarizing issues on Capitol Hill. | | | In anticipation of the showdown, all eyes yesterday were on the Judiciary panel's Democrats as they began questioning Myers about his nomination to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii as well as Guam and the Mariana Islands. | | | He is the only judicial nominee ever opposed by the National Wildlife Federation and the National Congress of American Indians. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05061/464932.stm
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| | Lenin: Draft Platform for the Fourth Congress of Social-Democrats of the Latvian Area |
| | The Congress must reject both the slogan of cultural-national autonomy and the principle of federation in the structure of the Party. | | | autonomy”, which was contrary to the decision taken by the Second Party Congress. | | | [5] The programme referred to is the Austrian Social-Democratic Party’s Programme on the National Question adopted at the Congress in Br\"unn (Brno) in September 1899. |
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| | Radio Left :: Iraq War Democrats run for Congress |
| | The Democrat is running unopposed for his party's nomination in a northeast Pennsylvania district. | | | The Democrat is running in rural Maryland for the seat held by Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, a House Armed Services Committee member. | | | In Ohio, Paul Hackett, a Democrat and vocal Iraq War critic, is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate against Sen. Mike DeWine, the Republican seeking his third term. |
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http://blog.radioleft.com/blog/_archives/2006/2/7/1749279.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Democrats urge Congress to reconsider Medicare bill |
| | With Republicans controlling Congress, there seemed to be no chance the bill would be repealed. | | | House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, joined in Daschle's criticism, saying, "To restore the integrity of the House, I call on Speaker [J. Dennis] Hastert to immediately bring this bill to the House floor to vote on its repeal." | | | Boston.com / News / Nation / Democrats urge Congress to reconsider Medicare bill |
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/13/democrats_urge_congress_to_reconsider_medicare_bill
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| | Cloakroom - 2006: Democrats take over Congress? |
| | None of the three is an absolute slam-dunk for the Democrats, but Maryland and New Jersey are likely Democratic in the end. | | | And since there are hardly any moderate Republicans left in Congress, most moderate Republican voters will be forced to hold their noses and vote for a Democrat in order to save America from fundamentalist ruin. | | | The Democrats will take the House back next year and pick up seats in the Senate. |
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http://politicalwire.com/cloakroom/comments.php?DiscussionID=253
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| | USATODAY.com - Democrats hope to ride Kerry's wave |
| | Robert Matsui, D-Calif., head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, admits they will need "a breeze behind our back" to take control of the House, now controlled 228-205 by Republicans. | | | They also could gain up to five new House seats in redrawn districts in Texas and as many as five open Senate seats held by Democrats in the South. | | | Colorado Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell's surprise decision this week to retire gives Democrats hope for a pickup. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-03-04-congress-usat_x.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861: Books |
| | The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861 | | | Like its predecessors, The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861 will be an invaluable reference for legal scholars and constitutional historians alike. | | | While legal scholars typically look to the courts for guidance in deciphering the Constitution, The Constitution in Congress offers an indispensable survey of the congressional history behind the development of the Constitution. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226129004
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| | GOP Bloggers: Have Democrats Already Retaken Congress? |
| | Republicans can continue to act like Democrats, but voters will just conclude that they might as well vote for the real thing. | | | But the GOP leadership in Congress has been abysmally weak and unfocused. | | | Only when Republicans start acting like Republicans can they expect to win elections. |
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http://gopbloggers.org/mt/archives/002512.html
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| | Dem Bloggers :: NBC/WSJ Poll - Democrats Should Control Congress |
| | According to this poll, by 47 percent to 40 percent the public says it would prefer Democrats controlling Congress after the 2006 elections. | | | A new NBC/WSJ poll shows that the American people are tired of the Republicans and want the Democrats to control Congress. | | | As the Senate marches closer toward a nuclear showdown over President Bush’s judicial nominees, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that the American public is dissatisfied — with Congress and its priorities, with Bush’s plan to overhaul Social Security and with the nation’s economy and general direction. |
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http://www.dembloggers.com/story/2005/5/18/165248/101
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| | CNN.com - House passes Schiavo bill - Mar 21, 2005 |
| | The extraordinary session had supporters, primarily Republicans, arguing that the issue was her "right to life" with a Democrat warning that passing the measure would "undermine over 200 years of jurisprudence." | | | We are members of Congress," said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. | | | "We are very, very, very thankful to have crossed this bridge and we're very hopeful that the federal courts will follow the will of Congress and save my sister's life," said Suzanne Vitadamo, Schiavo's sister. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/20/schiavo
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| | Congress Ignored Reports of Prisoner Abuse |
| | Democrats howling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for not informing them of reports of prisoner abuse in Baghdad are ignoring the fact that concerned parents of an accused soldier informed 16 members of Congress - top Democrats such as Sens. | | | Lawson, the uncle of one of the accused soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick, gave NewsMax.com the names of the members of Congress and Virginia's governor as well as the text of the explosive letters in a series of faxes. | | | Rockefeller begged off on the grounds that he was barred by privacy rules. |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/11/112439.shtml
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| | Bruce Ticker 1/8/03 - DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS MAKE GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION |
| | My heart sank as I heard new members of Congress such as Bob Beaupre of Colorado and Scott Garrett of New Jersey vote for Hastert, who was of course re-elected by a party-line vote. | | | Elijah Cummings of Baltimore, who is African-American, said he was “hurt” that Bush had again nominated Charles Pickering for a federal judge post in the wake of Trent Lott’s racial comments. | | | I couldn’t help thinking about that as House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi vainly challenged J. Dennis Hastert for the House speaker’s position. |
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http://makethemaccountable.com/ticker/030108_DemocratsInCongress.htm
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| | Central Union of German Democrats |
| | The association resulted from an initiative of the Marburg democratic union under the leadership of Professor Karl Bayrhofer who convened the all-German congress of democrats held in Frankfurt am Main on June 14 - 17, 1848. | | | Before the closing, a right wing dissociated itself from the congress, which accepted Robespierre's formulation of civil and human rights as radical-democratic constitutional principles. | | | After the middle of September 1848, when a majority of the parliament ratified the armistice of Malmö concluded by Prussia with Denmark, the central committee called upon the left to leave the assembly and to re-constitute a people's parliament as the leading organ of the revolutionary movement. |
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http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ac/cenunio.htm
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| | AlterNet: War on Iraq: Calls for Withdrawal from Iraq Echoing in Washington |
| | In a Sept. 6 memo to his Senate Democratic colleagues, Sen. Joseph Biden clearly reveals the state of thinking of these Democratic hawks. | | | Twenty-nine members of Congress attended the four-hour forum, including one Republican, Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina. | | | The internal strategic thinking of party leaders was summarized by one member as: "The Republicans can declare victory and leave, but the Democrats can only declare failure and be blamed." Such reasoning leads to abdication of any opposition to the war. |
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http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/25686
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| | Congress Of Democrats Of South Africa |
| | The South African Congress of Democrats (COD) include the... | | | The Treason Trial - The South African Congress of Democrats (COD) | | | Other Congress Of Democrats Of South Africa Info |
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http://www.prudentpolitics.org/congress-of-democrats-of-south-africa.html
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| | Congress Democrats.com |
| | Republicans did a lot of such whining in 2005 about partisanship on the part of Reid and leading Democrats every time Democratic senators stood up for their beliefs. | | | As some of you may know I serve as the Ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee... | | | In its heart, Washington DC no longer believes that Congress should represent voters. |
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| | The 23 anti-Israel members of Congress are Democrats |
| | The 23 anti-Israel members of Congress are Democrats | | | He is a true patriot, and the most honorable man in Congress. | | | FYI...Please remember these names: The 23 anti-Israel members of Congress. |
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| | Congress of Democrats From the Islamic World |
| | The Platform for Democratic Governance in the Islamic World issued at the conclusion of the Congress in Istanbul reflected the consensus of the delegates and emphasized the key principles of democratic governance. | | | The Congress of Democrats from the Islamic World convened in Istanbul, Turkey in April 2004. | | | Delegates in the Congress included current or former government officials, parliamentarians, and political leaders from ruling and opposition parties who had a proven individual record of democratic commitment and achievement. |
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http://www.cdiw.org
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| | Democrats Urge Congress to Focus on Energy (radio address) |
| | Cantwell, in some instances a brilliant Senator, is nevertheless like Murray a DLC tool who favors outsourcing and the ongoing subjugation of the American workforce. | | | Democrats Urge Congress to Focus on Energy (radio address) |
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| | Are the Democrats our allies? |
| | We need an activist movement that doesn’t compromise its antiwar positions in the name of defeating the greater of two evils--a movement that none of the politicians in Washington, Democrat or Republican, can ignore. | | | What kind of antiwar movement thinks that pushing Congress in any way is a waste--that it doesn't matter if Congress is pro-war, antiwar, or split down the middle? | | | For that matter, shouldn’t we want Pat Buchanan to get more Republicans to oppose the war? |
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http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/543/543_04_Democrats.shtml
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| | Green Car Congress: House Democrats Introduce New Apollo Energy Act |
| | U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) and fourteen other House Democrats today introduced the New Apollo Energy Act as a clean energy policy in counterpoint to the current House Energy Bill (H.R. 6—earlier post). | | | The New Apollo Energy Act Original Co-sponsors in Congress are: Jay Inslee (D-WA); Rush Holt (D-NJ); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Steve Israel (D-NY); Mike Honda (D-CA); Jim McDermott (D-WA); Rick Larsen (D-WA); Jesse Jackson, Jr. | | | Green Car Congress: House Democrats Introduce New Apollo Energy Act |
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| | USNews.com: Nation & World: Democrats seek mileage from gas prices |
| | With Republicans in control of the White House and both houses of the legislature, Democrats calculate that an angry voter backlash because of high gas prices will hurt the GOP and could affect the 2006 midterms, which are a mere 13 months away. | | | What's the response of the Congress?" Dorgan asks. | | | Congress Watch analyzes the issues of the day on Capitol Hill and profiles members of the Senate and House. |
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| | Preemptive Karma: Does Oregon have ANY Democrats in Congress??? |
| | In 1993, the year before the so-called Republican Revolution, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act. | | | But, he has had plenty of company in Congress. | | | Preemptive Karma: Does Oregon have ANY Democrats in Congress??? |
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http://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2005/10/does_oregon_hav_1.html
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| | Democrats in US Congress Regroup After Election |
| | Democrats, meanwhile, are now in the position of having to choose a minority leader in the Senate, and more importantly are left searching for someone who they believe could make a successful run for the White House in 2008. | | | Some of the first to address this were members of the Congressional Black Caucus which represents African American lawmakers. | | | Despite a large turnout, and hopes newly-registered young voters would help Senator Kerry and Democratic candidates, Democrats were not able to prevent President Bush and Republicans from drawing enough strength from that party's conservative and religious political base to hold on to the White House, and increase the Republican advantage in Congress. |
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http://voanews.com/english/2004-11-03-voa96.cfm?renderforprint=1&...
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| | The South African Congress of Democrats (COD) |
| | As such, the COD never became a political party but remained a "small and strictly secondary wing of the Congress Movement" with the aim of attaining full human rights, as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as political rights for all South Africans. | | | The following year, the South African People's Congress met with the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), banned members of the Communist Party and other organisations in the Congress Alliance with the view to form a Congress of Democrats (COD). | | | The importance of the COD in the struggle against apartheid was that it showed that there were Whites in South Africa who were also opposed to the apartheid policies of the National Party Government and who wanted to play a part in the liberation struggle. |
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http://home.intekom.com/southafricanhistoryonline/pages/organisations/CoD/congress-democrats.htm
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| | Dems on Intel Investigation: That Was Then, This is Now, by Jason Leopold |
| | Several other Democrats in Congress, including Ellen Tauscher, D-California, called for an investigation into the Office of Special Plans to find out whether the group knowingly used and supplied the White House with unreliable intelligence information to win support for the war, but their efforts were thwarted by the Republican controlled Congress. | | | But here in the United States, it appears all but likely that Congress will never direct the same questions Parliament compelled Tony Blair to answer toward Bush. | | | emocrats in Congress have abandoned their efforts to investigate the White House's use of questionable intelligence information about Iraq's alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, saying the issue has been "eclipsed" by President Bush's request for $87 billion from Congress to continue funding the war. |
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| | Where are the Democrats? |
| | There was news a report in Washington this week about how Democrats and Republicans in Congress conspired to close down the investigation of an alleged abuse of power by a leading member of the House. | | | As the Republicans were coming back from the wilderness - lean, mean and hungry - Democrats were busy assimilating their opponents' belief system. | | | Now Democrats in Congress are so deeply divided and impotent that Ralph Nader is thinking of running again. |
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| | nbc4.com - News - Schiavo Case Divides Democrats In Congress |
| | Virtually all Republicans and half of the Democrats present voted for the bill to let Terri Schiavo's parents ask a federal judge to prolong Schiavo's life by reinserting her feeding tube. | | | nbc4.com - News - Schiavo Case Divides Democrats In Congress | | | Virginia Democrat Jim Moran voted against the bill, saying it's a matter for state law rather than federal government intervention. |
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http://www.nbc4.com/news/4304769/detail.html
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| | My Way - News |
| | House Majority leader Tom Delay, a Texas Republican, and several other House Republicans defended Rumsfeld and accused the Democrats of trying to politicize the war. | | | Rumsfeld was to testify on Friday before the Senate Armed Services Committee in an appearance at which some lawmakers said his job could be in the balance. | | | Asked if Rumsfeld should resign, Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, said: "I think it will be determined on his testimony. |
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http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/366008top05-06-2004::12:46reuters.html
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