chabot censors town hall - police seize cameras
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it is not supposed to happen in america where we value free speech and proudly revel in our history of men and women standing up and speaking to their elected representatives butonce again just last night as they did in june congressman steve chabot his staff and security team made sure that there could be no genuine human interaction or spoken question from the audience or any recorded documentation of what was said and this occurred in a public meeting in a public place conducted by a public official who while speaking to the public refused over 100 people who disagreed with him the opportunity to speak and he had the police there to physically enforce his own private rules for public discourselast night it was supposed 039security reasonsquot that they again not only banned citizen speech but the photographing and filming of the congressman speaking as well chabot039s security team enlisted the help of the on-duty cincinnati police car 05313 to enforce this policy with the threat of arrest and the actual confiscation of two video cameras until the conclusion of the meetingdismal exercises such as this must leave his constituents bewildered thinking they had stumbled into an anti-democratic nightmare where authorities dictate appropriate speech in public places and seize personal property at the request of the elected officials these policies simply cannot stand legal scrutiny nor the smell test of any citizen interested in an honest and open discussion of public policy issues that impact the lives of their families

workers039 rights are human rights - assault on nlrb is a fundamental assault on our democracy
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congressman dennis kucinich d-oh a tireless advocate for workers039 rights today took to the house floor once again to continue his unstinting defense of the workers039 right to organize kucinich has consistently spoken out strongly against efforts to demonize workers and undermine the work of the national labor relations board today he spoke in opposition to hr 3094 the workforce democracy and fairness act

stearns on solyndra scandal on fox business
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stearns outlines the solyndra scandal on fox business 9142011

john fleming millionaire gop congressman blasts obama over buffett rule: i can039t afford a tax hike
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rep john fleming r-la who earned 63 million last year appeared on msnbc monday morning to express opposition to president barack obama

congressman tells conan not to worry about debt crisis video
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we the clock is counting down on the debt ceiling crisis many citizens are beginning to sincerely worry about the possibility that president obama and house republicans will be unable to reach a compromise before we default on our credit among those concerned citizens is conan o039brien who took the time to talk to a congressman on last night039s quotconanquot to find out whether his fears are founded

kucinich: quotchained cpi chains seniors to povertyquot
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congressman dennis kucinich d-oh took to the house floor again today to defend seniors from unfair attempts to pay down the deficit with seniors039 hard earned social security checks

a revelation- the fed grants 777 trillion in secret bank loans
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congressman dennis kucinich d-oh a longtime advocate for reform of the federal reserve is sharply criticizing the federal reserve today after bloomberg news reported that the federal reserve secretly committed nearly 8 trillion in support to american and international financial institutions during the 2008 bailout kucinich recorded a video for his website before going to the floor of the house of representatives to call upon congress to reclaim its constitution primacy over monetary policy

dennis kucinich: obama can tell it to a judge
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june 15 2011 cnn http:moxnewscom

quotthis is the most gutless institutionquot congresswoman marcy kaptur
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june 14 2011 c-span http:moxnewscom

republican congressman french hill racist radio ad in arkansas targets black community: lynching
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for more about republican congressman french hill racist radio ad in arkansan targets black community: lynching please read my blog at http:wwwjoseph-morriscomrepublican-congressman-french-hill-racist-radio-ad-2018our congressman french hill and the republicans know that its dangerous to change the presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt especially for black men one of the women says in the adim voting to keep congressman french hill and the republicans because we need to protect our men and boys one of the women says at the end of the ad we cant afford to let white democrats take us back to the bad old days of race verdicts life sentences and lynchings when a white girl screams rapein a radio ad supporting rep french hill the narrator says that black arkansans should vote republican because if democrats could accuse white supreme court justice brett kavanaugh of sexual assault with no evidence white democrats in charge wou

rep jim mcdermott: obama039s tax deal good for trust fund babies 039unfair039 to the unemployed
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democratic congressman jim mcdermott d-wash called president obama039s tax cut deal quotunfairquot on sunday during an appearance with fellow congressman elijah cummings d-md on cnn039s quotstate of the unionquot and accused the president of not being serious about helping the unemployed quotif you just take one specific issue to show the unfairness of this you have two groups of people in this country who do not have jobsquot mcdermott told host candy crowley: quotyou have trust fund babies and you have the unemployedquot

quotgod gave adam amp eve not adam amp steve god gave adam amp eve a jobquot congressman gohmert
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october 14 2011 c-span http:moxnewscom

firstenergy039s quotsnow jobquot puts safety at major nuclear power plant at risk part 2
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quotfirst energy which operates the davis-besse nuclear power plant has consistently misrepresented to the public structural defects in the building that shields its reactor quottheir latest fable is that cracks in the circumference of the shield building were caused by a snow storm that occurred - - in 1978 quotin 2002 firstenergy covered up information about a hole in the head of the reactor that jeopardized the safety of millions of people for which they were fined 28 million dollars quotfirstenergy caused the blackout in august 2003 which put 50000000 people in the dark because they were too cheap to hire people to trim trees quotcan they be believed when they claim a snow storm 34 years ago created cracks that appear today are buildings all over northern ohio falling apart today because of the blizzard of 03978 or is this just another in a series of desperate lies used to keep a plant going that should either be shut down or massively repaired quothow long before firstenergy039s 34 year snow job is fully exposedquot

kucinich stands with lgbt community to advocate equality for all
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quotjune marks lgbt pride month and the 43rd anniversary of the stonewall riots an event which is largely regarded as the catalyst for the modern day lgbt movement for equality quotthere is a long history of systematic discrimination against the lesbian gay bisexual transgendered and questioning community in every state in the union discrimination against someone based on any part of their identity means that anyone who is expressing themselves can be discriminated against it means we are creating a system in which everyone has to be the same and everyone has to express themselves the same way boring and wrongquotfortunately over the last several years we are beginning to see responses to the growing demand for protection against discrimination in all forms including workplace protections to prevent discrimination based on actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientationquotas a strong proponent of lgbt rights i have supported legislative initiatives that work toward codifying equality for members of the lgbt community i strongly support legislation such as the employment non-discrimination act enda the student non-discrimination act the respect for marriage act and the social security equality act initiatives that simply provide members of the lgbt community with the same privileges protections and benefits as everyone else as one of over 100 members to sign onto an amicus brief challenging the constitutionality of the defense of marriage act doma in court i applaud the recent decision by a federal appeals court to rule doma unconstitutional quotwe celebrate lgbt pride month at a time when significant historical strides have been made let us work to ensure that all people are treated equally regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identityquot

anonymous republican on trump: 039impeach the motherfcker039
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the unnamed republican congressman also said trump was like an evil really fcking stupid forrest gumpquot cenk uygur and john iadarola hosts of the young turks discuss http:wwwtytnetworkcomjointell us what you think in the comment section belowread more here: https:wwwmediaitecomonlinegop-congressman-rips-trump-in-insane-tirade-to-journo-evil-really-fcking-stupid-forrest-gumpquotthis strange but insane tale begins with erick ericksonwandering the aisles of a safeway supermarket hes accompanied by a republican congressman who regularly appears on fox news to defend president donald trumpif were going to lose because of him we might as well impeach the motherfucker the unnamed congressman told ericksonthats according to a new post from the conservative commentator who wrote about his encounter with one of the presidents congressional defenders who has privately decided he hates trump and wants to unloadthe congressman did no