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Egypt: Country will Block International Gaza Freedom Marchers

Robert Naiman | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jimmy Carter, Keith Ellison, Israel, Jim McDermott, Gaza, Egypt, World News
Robert Naiman

On December 31, together with more than 1000 peace advocates from around the world, I plan to join with tens of thousands of Palestinians in a march in Gazao for action to relieve Gaza's humanitarian crisis.

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The Conflict Minerals Trade Act

David Sullivan | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Cell Phones, Laptops, House of Representatives, Video, Senate, Congress, Consumer Electronics, Jim McDermott, Conflict Minerals, Democratic Republic of Congo, Enough Project, Bipartisanship, Center for American Progress, World News
David Sullivan

The introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act means Congo activists have bipartisan legislation percolating in the Capitol, which could cut armed groups and rights abusers out of the supply chain for our cell phones and laptops.

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Mapping Congo's Militarized Mines

David Sullivan | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jim McDermott, Conflict Minerals, Department of Defense, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mining, Defense Authorization Act, Africa, United Nations, Electronics, State Department, War Wire, World News
David Sullivan

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 has been making news because of all the things left out of it, including billions of dollars in cuts to expensive weapons systems.

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The Happiness Doctrine

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Jim McDermott, House Ways and Means Committee, Children's Health, Children, Foster Care, Education, Congress, Child Care, Happiness, Living News
Daniel Heimpel

A new law is an amalgam of many of the best thoughts to be found in the foster care advocacy community and hinges on a common-sense yet revolutionary idea: that happiness is just as important as safety.

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The Case for Broad-based Health Care Funding

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Jim McDermott, Public Option, Earl Blumenauer, Healthcare, Social Security, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News
Rep. Earl Blumenauer

Reform should be financed with a small increase in the Medicare payroll tax by about a third of a percentage point. For about half of working Americans, this would cost a latte a week ($3) or less.

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An Oldie, but not so Goodie: Updating the U.S. Poverty Measure

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Women, Senate, Congress, US Poverty, Middle Class, Christopher Dodd, Obama Administration, Task Force on Middle Class Working Families, War on Poverty, Jim McDermott, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

There has been a lot of sexy talk about cutting poverty in half over the next 10 years. How is that going to happen if we don't have an accurate measure of how many poor people there are living in the US.

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Obama and Anti-War Democrats

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Massa, Jim McDermott, Rahm Emanuel, Chellie Pingree, Jane Harman, Peter DeFazio, Donna Edwards, Alan Grayson, Marcy Winograd, Barack Obama, Jared Polis, Jackie Speier, Politics News
Norman Solomon

Progressives across the country should plan on giving special support to anti-war democrats Edwards, Grayson, Massa, Pingree, Polis and Speier in 2010.

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Congressional Staffer Flips Wig Over Nickname

Politico | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Congress, Congressional Staffer, Jim McDermott, Mike DeCesare, Elizabeth Becton, Representative Jim Mcdermott, Mcdermott, Politics News

If you want to score a meeting with Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), know this: His scheduler/office manager, Elizabeth Becton, is to be addressed by her...

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Feds: Saddam Paid For Lawmakers' Iraq Trip

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Saddan Hussein, David Bonior, Jim McDermott, US Lawmakers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led in...

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