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Michael McAuliff

GOP Lawmakers Offer Religion Ban That Passed 36 Years Ago

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.15.2013 | Politics
Read More: Census, Video, Rand Paul Census, Rand Paul, Ted Poe Census, Census Religion Question, American Community Survey Constitution, American Community Survey, Acs, Ted Poe, Census Unconstitutional, Rand Paul Census Law, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of Republicans in Congress who want to dramatically restrict information gathering by the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to pass a...

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Matt Sledge

Lawmakers Introduce New Online Privacy Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.07.2013 | Politics
Read More: Video, Online Privacy Bill, Online Communications and Geolocation Protection Act, Ecpa, Ecpa Reform, Email Privacy, Online Privacy, Email Privacy Bill, Warrant for Email, Fourth Amendment, Ted Poe, Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, Zoe Lofgren, Politics News

NEW YORK -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a bill on Wednesday to force the FBI to get a warrant before it...

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Andrea Stone

WWI Memorial Advocates Surrender To Local Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 09.11.2012 | DC
Read More: Politics News, Dc-War-Memorial, World War I Monument, War Memorial Documentary, World War I, World War I Memorial, War Memorial, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ted Poe, Frank Buckles, Last-Wwi-Veteran, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Advocates of a controversial plan to nationalize a monument to District of Columbia troops who died in World War I have surrendered to ...

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Winning Gold in the "Anti-Immigration Olympics"

Amy Novick | Posted 10.20.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Speaker John Boehner, Marco Rubio, Undocumented Immigrants, Lamar Smith, Charles Grassley, John Boehner, Marco Rubio Immigration, Steve King Immigration, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Steve King, Immigration Reform, Christie Vilsack, Chuck Grassley, DREAM Act, Julia Brownley, Illegal Immigrants, Joe Walsh Tea Party, Ted Poe, Tammy Duckworth, David Vitter, Immigration Debate, Rep. Steve King, Joe Walsh, Elton Gallegly, Latino Voices News
Amy Novick

These champions return to our country and see games of a different sort going on - elected officials stooping to the worst kind of politics, spreading fear and misinformation about immigrants, and enacting harmful anti-immigration policies.

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Andrea Stone

Drone Bill Would Safeguard Privacy

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.01.2012 | Politics
Read More: Ed Markey, Video, Congress, Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicles, Rand Paul, Faa, Police, Homeland Security, Ftc, Domestic Drone Surveillance, Unmanned Drones, Dhs, Drones, Ted Poe, Privacy, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Police would be required to get a warrant to use drones for certain types of surveillance under legislation introduced on Capitol Hill o...

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CRAZIEST PUNISHMENTS: Convicts Asked To Cut Hair, Wear Signs, Sleep In Doghouse

AP | LYNN DeBRUIN | Posted 08.26.2012 | Weird News
Read More: Video, Shame Punishments, Judge Orders Hair Cut, Kaytlen Lopan, Crazy Punishments, Judge Orders Ponytail Cut Off, Judge Orders Sleeping in Doghouse, Joe Arpaio, Judge Scott Johansen, Weird Punishments, Ted Poe, Valerie Bruno, Weird News News

SALT LAKE CITY — Sleep in a doghouse rather than jail, walk through town with a humiliating sign or cut off a child's ponytail as eye-for-eye pu...

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Nationalizing D.C.'s WWI Mem'l Could End In Stalemate

| Posted 02.01.2012 | DC
Read More: D.C. World War I Memorial, Video, Vincent Gray, World War I, District of Columbia, D.C. War Memorial, World War I Memorial, Emanuel Cleaver, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Wwi, Ted Poe, Cqrc, DC News

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff All Rep. Emanuel Cleaver wants is for his hometown's World War I memorial to have the status of a national monument...

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Michael McAuliff

House Passes Bill Empowering Congress To Veto Executive Branch Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.07.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- A bill that would give the controlling party of either chamber of Congress veto power over any major new regulation passed the House of ...

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Texas Rep. Wants To Nationalize Local D.C. War Mem'l

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2012 | DC
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WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia and federal leaders are gathering at the D.C. War Memorial on Thursday morning to reopen the long-neglected and new...

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Michael McAuliff

Anti-Census Bill Slashes Economic Monitoring

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.11.2011 | Politics
Read More: Census Economy, Census Bureau, Census Conspiracies, Budget Cuts, Budget, Crazy Census Conspiracies, Gross Domestic Product, Census Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts Census, Census, Census Constitution, Michele Bachmann, Hal Rogers, U.S. Census, 112th Congress, Michelle Bachmann Census, Ted Poe, Republicans Census, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- If you think Congress doesn't understand the economy now, wait till you see what a key House panel wants to do to the people who help fi...

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Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Economy, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations, Chesapeake Bay, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Air Quality, United States, Pollution, Mike Beard, Betty McCollum, U.S. Military, Todd Stern, John Shimkus, Religion, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Nascar, Oil, Unfccc, Coal Ash, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Offshore Energy, Ted Poe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

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Ted Poe: Congressman Compares Illegal Immigrants To Grasshoppers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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In one of the latest instances of a legislator waxing poetic about the debate over illegal immigration, Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) took the floor of the U...

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Unredeemable Rascals: Republicans Sit Pretty With or Without Passage of Health Care Reform Bill

Mario Almonte | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gop, Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers, Congress, Senate, Mitch McConnell, Chris Van Hollen, Health Care Reform, Democrats, Ted Poe, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Mario Almonte

My sense is that, in a way, it was actually a great relief to Republicans when the Democrats finally found an end-around to their obstructions as it relates to health care reform.

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