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Daily Archives: September 19th, 2012

Republicans shamelessly block Patty Murray’s veterans jobs bill in U.S. Senate

Excerpt: As if we need­ed fur­ther proof that Repub­li­cans aren’t inter­est­ed in help­ing cre­ate jobs and strength­en­ing eco­nom­ic secu­ri­ty for Amer­i­cans, the Noto­ri­ous G.O.P (which stands for Grave­yard of Progress these days) has blocked Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray’s vet­er­ans jobs bill from com­ing up for a vote in the U.S. Sen­ate, effec­tive­ly killing it for the year: Eager […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Policy Topics
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U.S. Representative Rick Larsen leads the charge to stop voter suppression

Excerpt: React­ing to laws mak­ing aim­ing to increase the dif­fi­cul­ty to vote since con­ser­v­a­tives took con­trol of  state gov­ern­ments in the 2010 midterm elec­tions, Con­gress­man Rick Larsen, along with 14 oth­er House Democ­rats, intro­duced a bill yes­ter­day to “com­bat vot­er sup­pres­sion efforts across the coun­try”. Only two of the cur­rent co-spon­sors rep­re­sent a state which has enact­ed […]
Written by:Patrick Stickney
Categories:Civil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics
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