Maurice Hinchey

When a Marijuana Loss Is Actually a Victory

Rob Kampia | Posted 05.15.2012

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The vote on a major medical marijuana amendment on the floor of the U.S. House on Wednesday night was an exciting development, even though the amendme...

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Dem Lawmaker Vows To Fight Medical Marijuana Raids

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Federal Crackdown, Dana Rohrabacher, Politics News, Video, Sam Farr, Obama Medical Marijuana, Maurice Hinchey, Drug War, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Crackdown, Medical Marijuana, Obama Administration, Tom McClintock, War on Drugs, Politics News

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) vowed to continue to fight federal raids on medical marijuana after a bipartisan measure he introduced along with Reps. ...

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House Defeats Bipartisan Bill To Cut Funds For Federal Medical Marijuana Raids

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, Federal Crackdown, Video, Sam Farr, Maurice Hinchey, Medical Marijuana Crackdown, Obama Administration, Medical Marijuana, Tom McClintock, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan measure that would have eliminated funding for federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in states where they're lega...

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Bipartisan Legislation Targets Federal Funding For Medical Marijuana Busts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Reps. Sam Farr (D-Calif.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have joined forces in an effort to cut off funding f...

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Wife Of Retiring Congressman Arrested For Drunk Driving

Posted 01.19.2012

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Allison Lee-Hinchey, the wife of retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), was arrested for drunk driving on Wednesday, just hours after news broke that...

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Another Congressman Announces Retirement

AP | Posted 03.19.2012

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KINGSTON, N.Y. — U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, an upstate New York Democrat in his 10th term, plans to announce that he won't seek re-election. Th...

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Tell Congress to Hold Blackwater/Xe Accountable

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Private Security Contractors, National Defense Authorization Act, Progressives, John Onyers, Congress, Robert Greenwald, David Price, James Moran, Afghanistan War, Rethink Afghanistan, Maurice Hinchey, Blackwater, XE Services, Ja Schakowsky, Afghanistan, Private Military Contractors, Senate, Politics News

One of the most infuriating threads of the story of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is the lack of accountability for out-of-control private contractors, sending the message that they can get away with anything, including murder.

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Taking on Karl Rove

Mark Ruffalo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chief Oil & Gas, Fracking, Maryland, West Virginia, Colorado, Safe Drinking Water Act, Marcellus Shale, Clean Water Act, Dick Cheney, Virginia, Ohio, Hydrofracking, Colorado River, Delaware River, Karl Rove, T. Boone Pickens, Louisiana, Gas Drilling, NAT GAS Act, Texas, Pennsylvania, Citizens United, Clean Air Act, New York, Epa, FRAC Act, Maurice Hinchey, Midterm Elections, Halliburton Loophole, Michigan, Water, Wyoming, Arkansas, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, Drinking Water, American Rossroads, Gasland, Politics News

$2010-11-01-frackingflame.jpg$ Congressman Maurice Hinchey is right to ask questions of gas companies that want to begin using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from deep underground.

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Progressive Democrat Faces Tough Re-Election Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurice Hinchey, Ny-22 Election, Marcellus Shale, George Phillips, Americans for Prosperity, Elections 2010, Ny-22 Race, American Crossroads, Ny-22, Politics News

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D), first elected to Congress in 1992, hasn't seen a tough re-election battle since 1994, the year of the Republican revolution ...

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Justice Department Reopens Probe Into Warrantless Domestic Spying

Murray Waas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warrantless Spying, Justice Department, Murray Waas, Maurice Hinchey, Michael Mukasey, Opr, Politics News

The Bush administration has reversed course and will finally allow the Justice Department to investigate the warrantless spying program.

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Tufts Study Incites Possible National Investigation Of Calorie Counts

Tufts Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D−NY) is pushing for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory changes based on the results of a recent study by...

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Fracking in New York's Marcellus Shale; An Open Forum

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Environmental Conservation, Marcellus Shale, Catskills, Maurice Hinchey, Jonathan Schein, SUNY New Paltz, Nrdc, Chesapeake Energy, Scheinmedia, Watershed, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York City, Metrogreenbusinesscom, New York News

This week I had the opportunity to moderate and co-produce a panel with the SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force, "The Future of Gas Drilling in New York State."

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Rep. Hinchey: Bush Administration 'Intentionally Let bin Laden Get Away' In Order To Justify Iraq War

Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday afternoon, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-New York) told MSNBC host David Shuster that the Bush administration "intentionally let bin Laden get awa...

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Banks with Glass Walls

Cate Long | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investment Banks, John McCain, Congress, Steny Hoyer, Maurice Hinchey, Maria Cantwell, Financial Crisis, Banks, Glass-Steagall, Business News

We could use some banks with glass walls... Banks that don't operate like black boxes and put the entire economic system at risk with their risky trading ventures.

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For Veterans Day, Let's Fix a Great Military Injustice - Repeal the Feres Doctrine

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ft Hood Shooting, Medical Negligence, Military, Maurice Hinchey, Feres Doctrine, Politics News

The Feres doctrine prevents military personnel from suing over injuries "incident to military service." That has come to mean not just combat-related injuries but also harm caused by medical negligence in U.S. military hospitals.

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Congressmen To Call For Break-Up Of Biggest Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maurice Hinchey, Peter DeFazio, Banks, Jay Inslee, John Conyers, John Tierney, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Five House Democrats will call this week for a return to a Depression-era law that separated Wall Street investment banking from Main Street commercia...

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Bring Back the Glass-Steagall Act to Break Up the MegaBanks that Caused the Crisis

Rep. Maurice Hinchey | Posted 05.25.2011

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The financial system in this country has been rigged and my new bill to re-establish Glass-Steagall will help undo the circumstances that led to this most recent collapse while helping to prevent future ones.

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Obama Urged Not To Scrap Presidential Helicopter Altogether

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Murtha, Lockheed, Lockheed Martin, Maurice Hinchey, Obama Helicopter, Michael Arcuri, Marine One, Barack Obama, Politics News

Thirteen House lawmakers are pressing President Obama to buy a cheaper, less sophisticated version of the controversial new presidential helicopter....

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Kucinich Leads Trend for Even Handed Foreign Policy

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Lee, Neil Abercrombie, Sam Farr, George MItchell, James McDermott, Ron Paul, Walter Jones, Fortney Stark, Keith Ellison, Todd Tiahrt, John Dingell, Frederick Boucher, William Delahunt, John Oliver, Henry Johnson, Dennis Kucinich, Brian Baird, Council for the National Interest, Robert Berry, Donna Edwards, Gwen Moore, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Paul Ronald, Nick Rahall, Raul Grijalva, Donald Payne, Lynn Woolsey, Earl Blumenauer, Loretta Sanchez, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Betty McCollum, John Shadegg, Samuel Graves, Victor Snyder, Barack Obama, James Moran, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Hilda Solis, Maurice Hinchey, Steve Kagan, Peter DeFazio, Kay Granger, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Jeb Hensarling, Henry Brown, George Miller, Israel Gaza Operation, Elton Gallegly, Politics News

According to astute observers -- there is a new trend in Congress in favor of a more even-handed approach to foreign policy. The bipartisan group, Co...

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NY: Barack Takes a Bite

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Woodstock, NY---In America's most famous little town, still populated by pot smokers, pool players, grey-haired hippies, and successful writers, artis...

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