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'Rolling Thunder' Motorcycle Rally Files T-Shirt Lawsuit

Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It's the 25th anniversary of Rolling Thunder. Let's celebrate -- with a lawsuit. Legal Times reports that organizers of the yearly mo...

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On International Women's Day, Congress Pivots To More Anti-Abortion Legislation (INFOGRAPHIC)

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Thursday, March 8 is International Women's Day, and Republicans in Congress are celebrating by debating a new bill that would restrict a...

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PRENDA: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Rep. Judy Chu | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Abortion Race, Trent Franks, Abortion Bill, Trent Franks Abortion, House Abortion Bill, Abortion Gender, Prenda, Abortion Sex, Politics News

PRENDA, the so-called "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act," would have a chilling effect on reproductive choice for every woman in this country.

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Arizona Rep. Authors D.C. Abortion Ban

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 01.25.2012

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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) drew a heap of criticism from Washington, D.C., locals on Monday when he introduced a bill that would ban women there from...

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Bachmann Names Possible VP Picks, Praises Santorum

Posted 12.01.2011

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For now, Michele Bachmann's days as a GOP presidential frontrunner are in the rearview mirror. Poll numbers aside, the Minnesota congresswoman has unv...

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House Honors Slain Aide To Rep. Giffords, Briefly Remembers Bipartisanship

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.30.2011

WASHINGTON -- It only lasted for about an hour, but bipartisanship took hold in the House on Wednesday as lawmakers lined up in support of a measure t...

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Arizona Congressmen Lobbied State Senators To Remove Redistricting Chair

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 01.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Arizona Democrats have accused four of the state's Republican representatives of pressuring state senators to oust the state's redistric...

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Obama Accused Of Using 'Human Shields' In Debt 'Bluff'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama is "bluffing" about the impacts of a debt default and holding troops and the elderly as "human shields" in the deadlock ...

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House GOP Ramps Up Efforts To Restrict Abortion Access

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Despite campaigning on a platform of creating jobs and boosting the economy, some of the first pieces of legislation Republicans have ta...

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Furious O'Donnell Clashes With Arizona Congressman About Guns

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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A furious Lawrence O'Donnell clashed with Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks on his Tuesday show about gun control and the Arizona shooting. ...

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There Can Be No Gun Control Without Recognizing and Respecting the Different Gun Cultures in the U.S.

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brady Campaign, Peter King, Arizona Shooting, Lirr, Carolyn McCarthy, Louie Gohmert, Michael Bloomberg, Trent Franks, Gun Control, New York Times, Jared Loughner, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Politics News

Both sides of the gun control issue must take this opportunity to better understand the complicated and varied role guns play in American communities. If they do, we can make every community safer.

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Trent Franks: 'I Wish There Had Been One More Gun' In Tucson

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that he wishes one additional person had possessed a firearm in Tucson on Saturday, presumably to use on Ja...

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Thanksgiving Day, Human Rights Activist Calls on President Obama and U.S. Congress to Support South Sudan Independence

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Omar Al Bashir, Khartoum, Darfur, John Kerry, Trent Franks, South-Sudan-Independence, South Sudan, Simon Deng, Human Rights, Freedom Walk, New York News

Disappointing news this Thanksgiving Day, as human rights activist Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by ...

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Puff, Puff, Give: Lobbyists Plying Hill Staffers Through Congressional Cigar Association

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lobbyists for major banks, insurers, pharmaceutical firms, energy companies and at least one foreign government have been helping organize lavish gath...

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Arizona for Arizonans, Now!

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Rufus Choate, Jan Brewer, American Party, Samuel Eliot Morison, Trent Franks, Millard Fillmore, Massachusetts, J.D. Hayworth, Know-Nothing Party, John Kyl, Politics News

In 1856, a political movement issued a platform which matched its mission with its name: the American Party. The nativist movement has a clear legacy today.

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Update: Congressman Franks Responds

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Trent Franks, Politics News

Trent Franks might be, just on a straight standardized test level, the stupidest person in Congress. I'm not talking about his politics. I'm talking about basic problem solving and sounding out big words.

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Not All Earmarks Are a Bridge to Nowhere and Not All Earmarks Are Meant to Line Congressional Pockets

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Thrasher, John Campbell, Ed Potosnak, Earmarks, Ken Calvert, Trent Franks, Beth Krom, Politics News

There are earmarks and... then there are earmarks. Not every earmark goes to line the pockets of corrupt congressional earmarkers and their cronies the way characters like Duke Cunningham, Don and Bill Young (R-AK & FL), Jerry Lewis (R-CA), and Ken Calvert (R-CA) have worked it.

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Special Forces Providing Federally Funded Abortions in Afghanistan

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Abortion, Abortion Rights, Afghanistan Civilian Casualties, Afghanistan Civilian Deaths, Afghanistan War, Trent Franks Abortion, Trent Franks, Politics News

If you've built an entire political career on not understanding the difference between a citizen and a fertilized egg, does that apply to mothers and their unborn children in Afghanistan? If not, why not?

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GOP Rep: Blacks Worse Off Now Than Under Slavery (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, said on Friday that because of U.S. abortion policy, "far more of the African American community is bein...

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GOP Worries That Terror Trials Will Provide Terrorists With "Megaphone"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the more amusing contentions to be made as a fearmongery talking point on the decision to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in a New York Cit...

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GOP Rep. Trent Franks Calls Obama "An Enemy Of Humanity"

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Republican member of the House of Representatives accused President Barack Obama of being "an enemy of humanity" during a conservative values forum ...

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Fear Of Fascism, "Gay Agenda" At Conservative Conference

The Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 05.25.2011

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ST. LOUIS -- Kitty Werthmann has made quite a career out of warning Americans that fascism is on its way. The 84-year-old native Austrian survived the...

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Trent Franks: Obama Should Release His Long-Form Birth Certificate (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Weigel of The Washington Independent caught up with Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az.) at the "How to Take Back America" conference and offered him...

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Republican Lawmakers Gin Up Fear Of Rationing, Can't Offer Any Proof

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Surrounded by a group of parents clutching pictures of their special needs children, two Republican members of Congress stood in front of the Capitol ...

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GOP Rep: I Came Within Three Days of Launching an Obama Citizenship Lawsuit

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a week of unwanted attention that seemed to end with him signing on to Rep. Bill Posey's (R-Fla.) bill to demand birth certificates from future ...

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