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Rep. Barbara Lee to Reintroduce 99er Unemployment Benefits Extension Legislation

Michael Thornton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Thornton

According to Gregg Rosen of the American 99ers Union, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) will be reintroducing The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act next w...

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H.R. 6556 Was Likely the Last Chance This Year to Help 99ers; Next Year Looks Even Less Promising

Michael Thornton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Thornton

The latest legislative effort to move forward 99er unemployment legislation, H.R. 6556, appears to be at a crossroads, but more realistically -- a dead end.

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Who Would Oppose Closing the Gun Show Loophole?

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Annette Nance-Holt, Rep-Mike-Quigley, Colin Goddard, U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, Virginia Tech, House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Gun Laws, Rep. Bobby Scott, Blair Holt, Rep. Mark Kirk, Rep-Michael-Castle, Chicago Police Department, House-Sub-Committee-on-Crime, Chicago Tribune, Rep. John Conyers, Politics News
Paul Helmke

What individual or group would try to stand in the way of legislation that would make it harder for convicted felons and other dangerous persons to obtain all sorts of dangerous weapons? The NRA bosses and their allies.

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Law Enforcement to Congress: Require Background Checks for Gun Sales

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iacp, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Law Enforcement, Gun Shows, Brady Background Check, House Judiciary Committee, Guns, Bureau of Alcohol, Gun Show Loophole, Gun Violence, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Rep. Bobby Scott, Tobacco, Crime Guns, Rep. John Conyers, Atf, Politics News
Paul Helmke

We need partners in every community; and we need elected officials, in Congress and in state legislatures, to stop catering to special interests and instead act in the public interest to reduce the terrible, and escalating, risk of gun violence in America.

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"Most Compelling Testimony" Ever

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Show Loophole, Rep. Mike Quigley, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Rep. Michael Castle, Assault Weapons, West Virginia, Brady Law, House Sub-Committee on Crime, House Judiciary Committee, Guns, Illegal Guns, Gun Violence, Semi-Automatic-Rifle, Rep. Bobby Scott, Brady-Background-Check, Gun Shows, Colin-Goddard, Ak-47, Rep. John Conyers, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Yesterday, the Crime Sub-Committee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee hosted a forum on legislation to close the loophole that allows "private sellers" of firearms to bypass Brady background checks at gun shows.

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An Arcane, Destructive -- and Still Legal -- Practice

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Public Schools, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, H.R. 5628, Randi Weingarten, Corporal Punishment, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Politics News
Deborah J. Vagins

On June 29, 2010, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced the "Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act," H.R. 5628. This bill would ban...

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