• Pataki announced the creation of a national organization that will work to repeal the Democrats' health care overhaul, which he called a "horrific" and costly bungle. (issues2000.org)
  • In virtually every other area of concern to Catholic leaders and to Network, the Catholic social justice lobby, support by Democrats in Congress for positions aligned with church teaching far outranks support by Republicans. (beliefnet.com)
  • The evidence clearly shows that on these issues, Democrats have been closer to Catholic teachings than the Republicans. (beliefnet.com)
  • Democrats opposed the cuts, supporting Network's position, while Republicans supported the cuts. (beliefnet.com)
  • Says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he 'had nothing to do with' that provision in the law. (politifact.com)
  • A provision known as "non-interference" -- prohibiting the government from negotiating with drug makers over drug prices -- was first proposed in 1999 by Democrats, notably President Bill Clinton, Thompson claimed. (politifact.com)
  • There is a serious possibility that Alaska and Colorado may elect Democrats who are much less supportive of the Second Amendment than their Republican predecessors. (davekopel.com)
  • Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina all have open seats with a realistic chance of electing pro-gun Republicans to replace Democrats who usually or always voted wrong on guns. (davekopel.com)
  • Republican challenger Jim Holt (A/A) would be a major improvement for this pro-gun state which has a record of electing anti-gun Democrats. (davekopel.com)
  • Eight Republicans joined with Democrats to vote 209-201 to send her resolution to committees for possible consideration, like any other bill. (yahoo.com)
  • Republicans lead, Democrats follow. (tripod.com)
  • As usual, Democrats, as the mindless, corporate, "left" wing of the Republicrat corporate party, obeyed their Republican masters and kissed Republican butt (again) concerning drug war issues. (tripod.com)
  • Democrats follow Republican evil. (tripod.com)
  • Anthony "Tony" Welters, a longtime friend of Thomas who made the loan in 1999, forgave the debt after nine years of what he called interest-only payments, says the report, which was released Wednesday by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • After all, the Democrats are focused on winning back one or both congressional chambers in 2018 thanks to hatred for Trump and the paralysis of congressional Republicans when it comes to confronting him on even the most obvious of his mistakes. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Since they only need a shift of three seats in the Senate and 35 in the House to reclaim control of Congress, Democrats wear his insults and threats as a badge of honour and in fact are using his nasty soundbites and tweets as part of their political advertising campaigns. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • After the 1999 shootings of Columbine High School students in Colorado, Democrats pushed hard to close the ""gun show loophole,"" which permitted sales at gun shows without background checks. (arizona.edu)
  • Even ultra-conservative Republicans like Congressman Bob Barr from Atlanta have sided with the democrats in term of protecting civil liberties for immigrants. (freehosting.net)
  • The dramatic downturn in the housing markets began when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, and the financial collapse began after Obama was named the Democrat presidential nominee in August of 2008. (patriotpost.us)
  • The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was passed by Democrats of the 95th Congress and signed into law by Jimmy Carter in 1977. (patriotpost.us)
  • The commission cited government data showing that since 1999 U.S. opioid overdoses have quadrupled, adding that nearly two thirds of U.S. drug overdoses were linked to opioids such as heroin and the powerful painkillers Percocet, OxyContin and fentanyl. (kombackblog.com)
  • Polls show incumbent Republican Senator Richard Shelby (A/C) faces an unexpectedly close race against Democrat Wayne Sowell (A/B-). GOA gives Shelby a C because of some bad votes in the 1999 post-Columbine frenzy. (davekopel.com)
  • But after the 1999 Columbine massacre, he was widely rumored to have made a deal with Governor Bill Owens that if Owens would support some gun control, Salazar would not challenge Owens for Governor in 2002. (davekopel.com)
  • In the first instance BarryA used the Finnish shootings as an occasion to attribute the Columbine murders of 1999 to Darwinism. (antievolution.org)
  • Upon completion of these positions, West was assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Lejeune, and selected to serve as an Army exchange officer to this headquarters from 1999 to 2002. (quantumbooks.com)
  • In 2000, Cannon co-founded the Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Methamphetamine, which has nearly 130 members from both major political parties in 2008. (wikipedia.org)
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  • Republican John McCain (*C/F-) posed as a strong Second Amendment during the 2000 Republican Presidential primaries. (davekopel.com)
  • But the 2000 election results also hurting HCI, which can legitimately take responsibility for Al Gore's defeat and for continued Republican control of the House of Representatives, as well as for the 1994 Republican take-over of Congress. (davekopel.com)
  • In early October, Senator Istook introduced a legislation to defeat Executive Order 1366 signed by President Clinton in September 2000 in order to compel federal agencies to comply with providing services to immigrants with limited english proficiency in their native language. (freehosting.net)
  • Cannon first entered the national spotlight in 1999, when as a member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, he was one of 13 House managers who prosecuted the case against President Bill Clinton in the impeachment trial in the U. S. Senate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ten years ago, President Bill Clinton signed legislation overhauling part of the nation's welfare system. (heritage.org)
  • A summary of evaluations conducted by Network of roll-call votes by members of both the House and Senate, for the 104th and 105th Congresses. (beliefnet.com)
  • Campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Republican Tommy Thompson called himself the "mastermind" of Medicare Part D, which he pushed while serving as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (politifact.com)
  • But while Democrat Baucus was very involved in the Part D legislation, Republicans controlled both the Senate and the House, Park noted. (politifact.com)
  • AOPA president Phil Boyer sent a letter to every member of the Senate urging passage of the bill, despite his unhappiness with the privatization provision. (reason.org)
  • Should it be Mr. Clinton, whose 1993 budget package raised taxes despite critics' warnings that doing so would wreck the expansion (and against the opposition of literally every Republican vote in the US Senate)? (nybooks.com)
  • Santorum learned to play politics in the industrial heartlands of western Pennsylvania, where I covered him as an uncharacteristically successful Republican contender for the U.S. House and then the U.S. Senate. (thenation.com)
  • A member of the Democratic Party and the Kennedy political family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died. (peoplepill.com)
  • For the 104th and 105th Congresses, for example, Network selected 15 or 16 pieces of legislation that it considered both important and relevant to church teachings. (beliefnet.com)
  • The months of October and November have brought a flurry of activity to DPF s public policy office, including tracking end-of-session legislative activity by the 105th Congress, and publishing Election 98: The Vote for Medical Marijuana and Drug Policy Reform. (tripod.com)
  • Like the mystics of old, the one sure way to get rich in modern America is to offer yourself up as a virtue signal to those seeking to prove themselves members in good standing of the national religion - diversity. (splcenter.org)
  • The spokes are his bases of support: corporate America, the congressional Republican caucus, the military-security complex, the Right-wing media and the alt-Right/Tea Party electoral support base. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to Sept. 11 every three weeks," commission members wrote in a report. (kombackblog.com)
  • Other jobs include time as an associate solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior from 1984 to 1986, and time as Utah Republican Party finance chairman from 1992 until 1994. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1994 Congress enacted the International Broadcasting Act, which consolidated all nonmilitary U.S. government international broadcasting under the USIA. (ips-dc.org)
  • Thompson said non-interference was first introduced by Clinton and Democratic congressional leaders in a Medicare Part D proposal in 1999, which did not become law. (politifact.com)
  • Democratic congressional leaders disagreed with Republicans and President George W. Bush's administration over how to provide $25 billion in aid to the three companies, with just two days left in Congress' lame-duck session. (blogspot.com)
  • That's if the case survives the political maelstrom targeting the Biden family, with congressional Republicans eager to prosecute the president's son and impeach his father in parallel probes separate from a US Department of Justice special counsel investigation facing GOP pressure. (yahoo.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Monday to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas , ending for now a threat against the Cabinet secretary that has been brewing ever since Republicans took the House majority in January. (yahoo.com)
  • Several prominent Republicans have become outspoken advocates of pushing forward on the GOP's longstanding effort to impeach Mayorkas. (yahoo.com)
  • The renewed push to impeach Mayorkas is yet another headache for new House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is already juggling both a potential impeachment vote and delicate negotiations over government funding legislation to avert a federal shutdown at the end of the week. (yahoo.com)
  • Following a five-year federal investigation, a grand jury has indicted President Joe Biden 's son Hunter Biden on three charges connected to a gun purchase in 2018, a time period during which the president's son has admitted to using drugs. (yahoo.com)
  • The Republican president's initial federal budget called for a 2 percent increase in drug treatment programs and would provide funds to increase border security to stop the flow of drugs into the country. (kombackblog.com)
  • Officials from New Hampshire criticized Trump last week after a leaked transcript of a January conversation with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto showed that Trump had called the New England state, hard-hit by the opioid crisis epidemic, a "drug-infested den. (kombackblog.com)
  • Christopher Black Cannon (born October 20, 1950) is an American politician who formerly served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the Republican Party, representing the third district of Utah from 1997 to 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • In April 1997 the Clinton administration announced a plan to integrate the USIA into the State Department in response to congressional Republican pressure to streamline U.S. foreign policy bureaucracy. (ips-dc.org)
  • About Sen. Ted Kennedy, who cosponsored the original 1997 SCHIP legislation, the Globe said he wouldn t criticize Clinton directly. (ontheissues.org)
  • For a third time, Congressman Luis Gutierrez introduced the Central-American and Haitian Parity Act, a legislation that would benefit refugees from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Haiti the same benefit provided to refuges from Cuba and Nicaragua in 1997. (freehosting.net)
  • It was proposed by President George W. Bush, and Thompson was the administration's point man on lobbying Congress to create it. (politifact.com)
  • Republicans have closely scrutinized the Biden administration's handling of the border with Mexico for months and sought to build an impeachment case against Mayorkas. (yahoo.com)
  • Hours before his nominee for "drug czar" withdrew from consideration over his part in a law limiting the Drug Enforcement Administration's ability to crack down on pharmaceutical distributors feeding the US's opioid epidemic, the president took a shot at the influence of drug companies over Congress. (tarbabys.com)
  • Republican officials and campaigns are eager to draw a false equivalence and dominate airtime with investigations surrounding the younger Biden instead. (yahoo.com)
  • Ironically, a Supreme Court decision celebrated by Republicans last year may have set a precedent that could protect Hunter Biden from prosecution. (yahoo.com)
  • Hunter Biden is charged with illegally owning a gun as a drug user, and with allegedly lying on a form when he bought the firearm. (yahoo.com)
  • The Republican Party's Catholic Task Force has made a far-reaching claim: that of all political parties, the Republican Party's agenda best reflects Catholic teaching. (beliefnet.com)
  • With such results in mind, the Republican Party's National Committee chairman announced June 30 that a major outreach to Catholic voters was already underway. (beliefnet.com)
  • Our extensive analysis, which included consulting many experts on Congressional votes in relation to Catholic teaching, shows clearly that, aside from the Republican Party's anti-abortion stand, and its support for educational vouchers and funds for Catholic schools, the party's claim to best represent Catholic views is greatly exaggerated. (beliefnet.com)
  • The results of Network's analysis overwhelmingly repudiate the contention of the Republican Catholic Task Force that the Republican Party's agenda is closer to the teachings of the Catholic Church. (beliefnet.com)
  • At age forty-seven years, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 1960, was older than Kennedy but still relatively young. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • We welcome voters from all across the State who are realizing that the principles they have always embraced are reflected in our Republican Platform! (gwbush.com)
  • Worried about rising crime and the increasingly violent penetration by Mexican drug cartels, voters elected Otto Pérez Molina as president. (franksmyth.com)
  • Many Republicans, I would argue, are really tone deaf to their constituents and to their voters," she said. (yahoo.com)
  • Republican-led drug war disenfranchises (no voting rights) millions of voters (mostly Democrat-voting blacks). (tripod.com)
  • In states across the country, voters approved medicinal marijuana and broader drug policy reform initiatives on November 3. (tripod.com)
  • In Alaska, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, voters passed medical marijuana initiatives, while Arizona and Oregon voters rejected attempts by the state legislatures to make drug laws more repressive. (tripod.com)
  • In almost all majoritarian systems, voters choose representatives in single-member districts. (protectdemocracy.org)
  • Because voters in single-member districts tend to treat third parties as spoilers or wasted votes, this system generates two dominant parties at the district level. (protectdemocracy.org)
  • In mixed systems, voters choose some representatives through single-member districts and some through multimember districts. (protectdemocracy.org)
  • In 1996, Cannon was the Republican candidate in Utah's 3rd District against Democratic incumbent Bill Orton, who had managed to hold the seat for three terms (all by fairly large margins) despite its heavy Republican tilt. (wikipedia.org)
  • Almost any other Republican could have held the seat with ease, but the nepotism issue has put Murkowski in a very close race against former two-term Democratic Governor Tony Knowles (B/NR). As Governor, Knowles vetoed several pro-gun bills, but is now claiming to be a Second Amendment supporter. (davekopel.com)
  • After Hatewatch's investigative reporting verified Miller's white nationalist perspective, more than 80 Democratic members of Congress called for his resignation. (splcenter.org)
  • His first test is in Iowa, a state with a significant manufacturing base that has been battered by bad trade policies and neglect on the part of Republican and Democratic administrations. (thenation.com)
  • In 1968, Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the United States presidential election but narrowly lost to the Republican nominee, Richard M. Nixon . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Editor's Note: Heading into the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has drawn plenty of criticism from progressives for his stance on gay rights and contraception. (thenation.com)
  • As comparative political scientists have long known, proportional representation can work well with a presidential system. (protectdemocracy.org)
  • But Republicans could upset the political calculus, if they figured out how to connect with blue-collar workers who were socially conservative but economically populist. (thenation.com)
  • The Republican calculus is stark. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • But rather than seeking legislation to attain their real objective-to repeal or at least halt the expansion of contract control towers-the union fought hard for more-sweeping anti-privatization language. (reason.org)
  • Contact: Ginger Kunz Clerk and Recorder/Election Administrator In Congress, Petterson has promised to fight for the repeal of the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts and a fairer tax policy for all Americans. (data-intelligence.io)
  • BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States had no alternative but to defeat an epidemic of opioid drug use, but announced no new policies to combat the health crisis that kills more than 100 Americans daily. (kombackblog.com)
  • Tom Marino might have withdrawn from consideration as Trump's drug czar, but drug money is coursing through the veins of Congress - contributing directly to an epidemic that kills thousands of Americans each year. (tarbabys.com)
  • Trump's nominee for drug czar, the US congressman Tom Marino, was forced to withdraw after a report by the Washington Post and CBS's 60 Minutes highlighted his role in forging legislation that hinders the DEA's ability to move against drug distributors or pharmacies recklessly dispensing the opioid painkillers at the heart of the epidemic, which claims more than 100 lives a day. (tarbabys.com)
  • While lobbying shapes medical policy across the board, it has had a profound impact on the opioid epidemic as deaths quadrupled between 1999 and 2015. (tarbabys.com)
  • Drug companies also contributed more than $20m directly to political campaigns last year. (tarbabys.com)
  • The pharmaceutical industry, which has about two lobbyists for every member of Congress, spent $152m on influencing legislation in 2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics . (tarbabys.com)
  • The "prohibition on democracy" was included in the Omnibus Appropriations bill thanks to a clause authored by a Republican authoritarian from Georgia, Rep. Bob Barr. (tripod.com)
  • But in the next session of Congress, he sponsored the McCain/Lieberman gun show bill , which would have given the federal government the administrative power to prohibit all gun shows, and to register everyone who attends a gun show. (davekopel.com)
  • Last Fall, Obama was politicking the week the financial meltdown began, McCain suspended his campaign to work with Republicans in Congress, outlining conditions for an agreement that would both protect the American taxpayer and thwart a meltdown of the U.S. economy. (patriotpost.us)
  • In 1999, 42.6 million Americans did not have health insurance. (issues2000.org)
  • All states have been fervently working to reduce the number of uninsured Americans, to make health insurance more affordable and secure, and to provide quality health care at a reasonable cost to the uninsured. (issues2000.org)
  • While the House Majority has wasted months trying to score points with baseless attacks, Secretary Mayorkas has been doing his job and working to keep Americans safe,' a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. (yahoo.com)
  • The book is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a member of an Eastern Algonquian-speaking people during the nineteenth century, which was written by Nicolar in an urgent effort to pass on Penobscot cultural heritage to subsequent generations of the tribe and to reclaim Native Americans' right to self-representation. (wesleyan.edu)
  • Does Santorum represent a branch of conservatism that supports working Americans? (thenation.com)
  • Substance abuse treatment activists have criticized his proposed cuts to federal prevention and research programs as well as his calls to shrink Medicaid, which covers drug treatment for hundreds of thousands of Americans. (kombackblog.com)
  • African Americans and women continued to work to attain greater equality in civil rights. (billofrightsinstitute.org)
  • Unabashedly liberal, Kennedy championed an interventionist government that emphasized economic and social justice, but he was also known for working with Republicans to find compromises. (peoplepill.com)
  • At the time of its enactment, liberal groups passionately denounced the welfare reform legislation, predicting that it would result in substantial increases in poverty, hunger, and other social ills. (heritage.org)
  • In the meantime, immigrant advocates must continue the struggle to ensure that liberal immigrant legislations be implemented by the current administration to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, the undocumented immigrants. (freehosting.net)
  • Corporate America’s distancing from Trump is paralleled by that of his second support spoke: Republicans in Congress. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • That is because campaigning for the November 2018 midterms begins in November 2017, and they must choose whether to fish or cut bait on their support for Trump in order to save their own political careers as well as the future of the Republican Party. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • Trump had earlier announced he would give a "major briefing" on opioid drug use but instead gave a few brief comments on the subject while also warning North Korea it would be met with "fire and fury" if it threatens the United States. (kombackblog.com)
  • The commission, headed by Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, recommended a series of steps Trump could take on his own without Congress. (kombackblog.com)
  • In 2004, Cannon defeated Republican challenger Matt Throckmorton in the primary, getting 58.4% of the vote, in a race in which the major issue dividing the candidates was immigration policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Federal law prohibits people who use drugs from buying firearms, but questions surrounding the constitutionality of that law could throw the case into jeopardy following a landmark US Supreme Court decision that opened a wave of litigation under the court's expansive Second Amendment lens. (yahoo.com)
  • FILE - Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • He is the third member of his family to serve in the House, but the first voting member. (wikipedia.org)
  • His great-grandfather, George Q. Cannon, was a nonvoting member of the House from 1873 to 1881, while Utah was still a territory, whose son Frank Cannon was the state's first senator, as well as a non voting delegate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cannon was also a member of the House Government Reform Committee. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cannon was also a member of the House Resources Committee, serving on the Energy and Mineral Resources and Forests and Forest Health Subcommittees. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cannon was one of the most conservative members of the House. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is a retired lieutenant colonel from the U.S. Army and a former member of the House of Representatives. (quantumbooks.com)
  • House GOP whip Tom Emmer, the No. 3 House Republican, as well as Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican whose congressional district runs along the border with Mexico, voiced support for Greene's resolution. (yahoo.com)
  • This language, approved by the White House, became the Conference Report approved by the Republican members of the conference committee, just before the August recess. (reason.org)
  • Nine out of 10 members of the House of Representatives and all but three of the US's 100 senators have taken campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies seeking to affect legislation on everything from the cost of drugs to how new medicines are approved. (tarbabys.com)
  • Congressman Cris Smith, Republican from New Jersey has re-introduced the same measure under House Bill HR-707. (freehosting.net)
  • On June 24, 2008, he was defeated in the 2008 Republican Party third district primary by Jason Chaffetz, former chief of staff to then-Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. Chris Cannon is part of the well-known Cannon Family of Utah. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the Clinton proposal, pharmacy benefit managers would have negotiated on behalf of the federal government with drug manufacturers, said Edwin Park , vice president for health policy at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. (politifact.com)
  • People are sensitive to the issue of gun violence because of the Giffords shooting … but the gun issue is down on Congress' list of priorities, given high unemployment and two and a half wars,"" said Darrell West, the director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington policy-research center. (arizona.edu)
  • In January 2003, Cannon was elected chairman of the influential Western Caucus, an organization of over 50 Congressmen working on resource management issues. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scores of attempts by some members of Congress to introduce legislation to bring down the price of prescription medicines or to let people buy them from Canada, where they are often cheaper, have failed to make it out of committee. (tarbabys.com)
  • Cannon faced opposition in the primaries from a fellow Republican for the first five times he ran (and won), but his opposition in 2006 seemed potentially stronger. (wikipedia.org)
  • He said the law was passed in the face of substantial opposition from the public and hastily rammed through Congress. (issues2000.org)
  • The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193, PRWORA) replaced the failed social program known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with a new program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). (heritage.org)
  • in the administration of the trade association that would be the number of dollars generated by membership and more importantly the number of members that renew! (arsa.org)
  • He has been working to set up a division within his office specifically to combat misinformation and wants to work closely with social media companies to ensure they take down dangerous conspiracy theories. (data-intelligence.io)
  • This year, federal judges in several cases have ruled that banning someone who uses drugs from owning a firearm is "inconsistent with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. (yahoo.com)
  • However, Bill Clinton's signature on legislation making it easier for minority constituents with bad credit to obtain mortgages really reseeded the crisis. (patriotpost.us)
  • Each year, the January issue of Network's bimonthly magazine, Network Connection, contains a list of the 10 to 15 legislative issues Network is concerned about, along with the votes cast by each member of Congress on those issues. (beliefnet.com)
  • But that slowed down early this year, partly, frankly, because of Republican obstruction on some important measures that would have helped, like unemployment compensation extension. (larouchepub.com)
  • 1998 was a year of escalation in the drug war. (tripod.com)
  • This in-depth analysis of this year s successful drug policy reform ballot initiatives was distributed to the media, the public, and drug policy reformers to summarize the different initiatives and evaluate key provisions in each. (tripod.com)
  • We have included an overview of the results of the drug policy reform initiatives and a list of the major drug policy-related legislation we followed this year. (tripod.com)
  • Hundreds of millions of dollars flow to lobbyists and politicians on Capitol Hill each year to shape laws and policies that keep drug company profits growing. (tarbabys.com)
  • Cannon was named Chairman of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee at the beginning of the 108th Congress in January 2003, and has served as its ranking Republican from 2007 - 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • The chairman, Jim Nicholson, also announced that he had appointed Brian Tierney of Philadelphia to head the Republican committee's Catholic Task Force. (beliefnet.com)
  • Drug makers have poured close to $2.5bn into lobbying and funding members of Congress over the past decade. (tarbabys.com)
  • Desecration of Flag resolution: Vote to pass the joint resolution to put forward a Constitutional amendment to state that Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. (issues2000.org)
  • Supports granting Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag. (issues2000.org)
  • A result on the higher end would create a good possibility of enacting legislation to prohibit abusive lawsuits against firearms manufacturers. (davekopel.com)
  • An examination of legislation of concern to Catholic bishops--specifically, the bishops' Office of Government Liaison, which is sponsored by the United States Catholic Conference in Washington. (beliefnet.com)
  • She calls it a "sweetheart deal" for drug companies, saying the government can't use its bargaining power to try and obtain lower drug prices -- although others counter that competition among private insurers in Part D has led to lower prices. (politifact.com)
  • We've rated True a claim by Baldwin that the Part D law, "adopted under Thompson's watch," bars the government from negotiating for "better prices" on prescription drugs. (politifact.com)
  • A: I believe that our government must do so much more to get generic drugs and low-cost drugs to people suffering. (ontheissues.org)
  • Or congressional Republicans, who fought to hold down spending on most government programs outside the Defense Department? (nybooks.com)
  • That is the result of a 2003 law, in effect written by the industry, preventing the federal government from seeking bids for the manufacture of drugs and medical devices - a process used in other areas, such as defense spending. (tarbabys.com)
  • Instead, the pharmaceutical companies can charge whatever price they want for drugs bought for the publicly run Medicare and Medicaid programs - and the federal government has no choice but to pay up. (tarbabys.com)
  • This experience allows the association to manage the intersection of business and government to its members' advantage. (arsa.org)
  • Clinton's legislation, in effect, applied affirmative action to the lending industry, which is to say that the current crisis is NOT a "free market failure" but the result of socially engineered financial policy by the central government. (patriotpost.us)
  • Discussing the contribution of all of these to the Great Depression and the legislation that followed would be well beyond the scope of this article so I'll limit it primarily to the stock market and to banking. (opednews.com)
  • But perhaps Congress was happiest, because they managed to avoid the "space toilet" issue with 7 days of Wakawnee beaded tapestry slide shows. (seanbaby.com)
  • Congress is likely to remain preoccupied with budget battles, with lawmakers unlikely to tackle the divisive issue of guns. (arizona.edu)
  • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , a hard-right Republican from Georgia, forced a vote on impeaching Mayorkas to the floor through a rule that allows any single member to force a snap vote on resolutions, including constitutional matters such as impeachment. (yahoo.com)
  • Trump’s attacks on the Republican congressional leadership have deepened the fractures within the party itself, to the point that some wonder if what he is doing is trying to promote an internal coup against the GOP leadership. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • was one of the Republican demagogues who again used the drug war to whip up typical, mindless, "law-and-order" solutions to societal problems. (tripod.com)
  • In short, our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person's right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage," Ronald Reagan-appointed US District Judge Jerry Smith wrote for a federal appeal courts panel in August . (yahoo.com)
  • The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits people who use drugs from possessing firearms, a ban that applies to people who have admitted to using illegal drugs within 12 months before buying a gun, according to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. (yahoo.com)
  • Nor do more generalized traditions of disarming dangerous persons support this restriction on nonviolent drug users. (yahoo.com)
  • The vote and its GOP support showed a growing appetite to reach for Congress' most powerful weapons and redefine what the Constitution means by impeachable "high crimes and misdemeanors. (yahoo.com)
  • So quietly but steadily they are abandoning public support for him in favour of political hedging strategies focused on Congress and his likely successor. (kiwipolitico.com)
  • GM, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC should develop a detailed plan for sustained operations and present it to Congress as a condition of receiving support, with "chains" rather than "strings" attached, York said. (blogspot.com)
  • Specifically, in a mission statement last revised in January, the task force said, "We have studied the political record of all major political parties and we believe that the Republican Party is closest to the teachings of the Catholic Church. (beliefnet.com)
  • Republicans now hold all statewide elected offices and are clearly the emerging majority Party in Texas. (gwbush.com)
  • That is why the association does not play party politics in its legislative activities and continues to manage the regulatory fallout of any enacted legislation. (arsa.org)
  • During past 8 years, the Bush Administration lacked political capital in the U.S Congress to persuade ultraconservative elements in the Republic Party to do the right thing. (freehosting.net)
  • And if Catholics believed the recent Republican claims, and voted accordingly, it could have significant electoral results. (beliefnet.com)
  • Majoritarian electoral systems are actually more common among parliamentary democracies: For example, the United Kingdom and Canada both combine parliamentary systems with single-member electoral districts. (protectdemocracy.org)
  • The organization lobbies Congress on issues it believes to be relevant to building a just society, based on principles set forth in the Gospels and in Catholic social teaching. (beliefnet.com)
  • The organization does not lobby on abortion-related legislation. (beliefnet.com)
  • They've even blocked non-binding resolutions expressing the sense of Congress that television programming featuring graphic violence shouldn't be aired when young children are likely to be watching. (publicintegrity.org)
  • But we need to do much more to get our pharmaceutical companies to work with us to get the drug costs down and to open the pathway for generic drugs. (ontheissues.org)
  • In fact, the problem that all economists and business people and working people and others are concerned about now, is verging on deflation. (larouchepub.com)
  • Medicare Part D is an optional insurance program for prescription drugs for people on Medicare. (politifact.com)
  • Right now if you look at who draws Social Security for the longest time, people who have worked hard for many years, people who are often really broken down by the physical labor or the repetitive labor that they've done. (ontheissues.org)
  • Their lifespan is much lower than the lifespan of people like you and me who had a different sort of life, made our monies different ways, didn't have to work that hard. (ontheissues.org)
  • A rediscovered treasure of work, The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. (wesleyan.edu)
  • Q: Current US trade policies toward developing countries make it sometimes extremely difficult for poor people to access inexpensive, generic drugs for the treatment of AIDS and other sicknesses. (ontheissues.org)
  • OpinionNation: Rick Santorum: Defender of America's Working People? (thenation.com)
  • 13,362,408 traité, comme l'interdiction totale de la lissement considérable du texte du prési- publicité pour les produits de tabac, ne dent, l'exclusion encore plus systé- people have died from devrait pas être autorisée à maintenir en matique des Organisations Non Gou- otage les débats de la CCLAT. (who.int)
  • This is not surprising, as he represented one of the most Republican districts in the nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now almost everyone, from the Republican leadership to President Clinton, is committed to balancing the budget without using Social Security and paying down the national debt. (house.gov)
  • 6 and then allow exemptions to be speci- have total advertising bans, when the fied in national legislation according to goal is comprehensive bans, does a local needs. (who.int)
  • To illustrate, in the 104th Congress, Network opposed tax and spending cuts in HR 1215 because the cuts made the tax system even more regressive by benefiting predominately upper-income individuals and corporations. (beliefnet.com)
  • Indeed, they will be more vulnerable, since guns are sold under a regulatory system that is stricter than the regulations for any other major consumer product except prescription drugs. (davekopel.com)
  • Ninth District Congressman Adam Smith today unveiled legislation to restructure the federal role in K-12 education. (house.gov)
  • All the work performed by the industry and the federal agencies to assess performance measures, promises of "transparency" and adherence to the plain language of the regulations is for naught. (arsa.org)
  • General Motors Corp., the largest U.S. automaker, probably has weeks rather than months left before it runs out of cash without federal aid, said Jerome York, an adviser to billionaire Kirk Kerkorian and former GM board member. (blogspot.com)
  • Yet his calls for a renewal of the American manufacturing base-and his votes in Congress opposing free trade-have piqued liberals' interest. (thenation.com)
  • above) Two Congress fans pose in what they call "LaserCart," the same type of vehicle used by Congress to deliver important messages and packages. (seanbaby.com)
  • If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. (patriotpost.us)
  • On Nov. 17, 1999, to great fanfare, the company announced it would no longer make "soft money" contributions to the political parties. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Your declaration would empower your cabinet to take bold steps and would force Congress to focus on funding and empowering the executive branch even further to deal with this loss of life. (kombackblog.com)
  • Smith noted, "President Clinton strongly emphasized fiscal discipline and paying down the debt in last night's State of the Union Address, and Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle were very supportive. (house.gov)