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November 18, 2010 11:41 pm | By Peter Montgomery
Bipartisan Agreement Breaks Out at Hearing on Faith Based Initiatives
At today’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, there was one item on which witnesses and Members of Congress from across partisan and ideological divides agreed: the Obama administration is ducking…
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November 18, 2010 9:41 pm | By Miranda Blue
People For and Progressive Groups Urge Senate to Break Confirmation Gridlock
This week, People For and 46 other progressive groups sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. Senate urging them to end the backlog of judicial nominees before the end of this session of Congress. Republican obstruction has prevented…
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November 18, 2010 6:51 pm | By Brian
Secret Money in 2010 Election Doubled All Outside Group Spending in Last Midterm
The rapid growth and increased prominence of outside groups attempting to influence voters in the 2010 midterm election was apparent to all Americans who saw the deluge of campaign spending and TV ads this year. But the matter of who…
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November 17, 2010 10:25 pm | By Miranda Blue
Former Bush Lawyer: Stop Partisan Bickering and Confirm Liu
The Blog of the Legal Times is reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is planning to call Senate Republicans on their obstruction of judicial nominees and break the gridlock that has kept four of these nominees pending, in some…
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November 17, 2010 8:24 pm | By Jen Herrick
Lieberman, Collins call for expedited DADT report
With the fight to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell approaching a critical turning point, Senators Lieberman and Collins have called on the Pentagon to expedite its DADT report. Leaks from the report, due December 1, suggest that it will corroborate…
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November 17, 2010 4:58 pm | By Brian
Insurance Industry Funds Chamber to Blast Health Care Reform
The US Chamber of Commerce spent $144 million in 2009 alone to lobby against critical legislation from health care reform to Net Neutrality, and laws to protect consumers, workers, and the environment. The Chamber uses its financial dominance not only…
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November 17, 2010 3:00 pm | By Jen Herrick
Paycheck Fairness Act alert – the vote is imminent
The Senate is scheduled to take 2 votes today at 11 am. First up – the Paycheck Fairness Act! They’ll consider what’s called a “motion to proceed.” Overcoming this procedural hurdle would allow the bill itself to come to the…
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November 16, 2010 9:03 pm | By Miranda Blue
Who’s Paying for our Elections?
People For’s President Michael Keegan has a new op-ed in the Huffington Post today examining the impact of anonymous donors on this year’s midterm elections. He looks at the difference between spending by shadowy groups like the American Future Fund…
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November 16, 2010 3:54 pm | By Jen Herrick
Paycheck Fairness Act alert – call the Senate today
The Senate is scheduled to take its first votes of the lame duck session soon. Number 2 on the list tomorrow – the Paycheck Fairness Act! They’ll consider what’s called a “motion to proceed.” Overcoming this procedural hurdle would allow…
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November 16, 2010 3:21 pm | By Jen Herrick
Tracking the Obstruction: Obama v. Bush
Last month I helped you decipher what progress does and doesn’t mean for executive branch nominations being considered in the Senate. I can now add that President Obama’s executive branch nominations are generally lagging behind President Bush’s when it comes…
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November 15, 2010 4:04 pm | By Jen Herrick
Paycheck Fairness Act alert – two days left
The Senate is scheduled to take its first votes of the lame duck session this Wednesday. Number 2 on the list – the Paycheck Fairness Act! They’ll consider what’s called a “motion to proceed.” Overcoming this procedural hurdle would allow…
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November 12, 2010 10:55 pm | By Miranda Blue
Freedom of Speech in School
We were all pretty shocked by this story out of California today:A Stanislaus County school is forcing a student to take an American flag off of his bike.Thirteen-year-old Cody Alicea put the flag there as a show of support for…
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November 12, 2010 8:52 pm | By Miranda Blue
Supreme Court Lets DADT Enforcement Continue
The Supreme Court today declined to reverse a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that let the military continue to discriminate against gay and lesbian servicemembers while the legal battle against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell continues. The ban on openly…
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November 11, 2010 11:48 pm | By Jen Herrick
Paycheck Fairness Act alert – mark your calendars
The Senate is scheduled to take its first votes of the lame duck session on Wednesday, November 17. Number 2 on the list – the Paycheck Fairness Act! They’ll consider what’s called a “motion to proceed.” Overcoming this procedural hurdle…
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November 11, 2010 3:55 pm | By Miranda Blue
Leaked Pentagon Study Says DADT Repeal Won’t Harm War Efforts
The case for keeping the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell became even weaker today, as leaks from a Pentagon study of the policy suggest that the policy could be repealed “with only minimal and isolated incidents of risk to the…
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November 10, 2010 10:21 pm | By Jen Herrick
DADT repeal approaches critical turning point
With the House and Senate set to reconvene next week, we’re hearing a lot of talk about what will or won’t be considered, especially when it comes to the FY 2011 Defense authorization bill. PFAW and AAMIA have both supported…
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November 10, 2010 8:13 pm | By Miranda Blue
PFAW Joins Drop Fox Campaign, Makes it onto Glenn Beck’s Blackboard
You can imagine our delight here at People For when we finally made it on to Glenn Beck’s infamous conspiracy theory-promoting blackboard last night. You can watch the clip here:Note that, contrary to Beck’s assertions, People For the American Way…
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November 10, 2010 6:27 pm | By Miranda Blue
Justice Alito Confronted at GOP-Related Fundraiser
ThinkProgress’s Lee Fang went out to a high-profile, high-price fundraiser for the right-wing magazine the American Spectator last night, and confronted one of the gala’s distinguished guests: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.The Spectator is more than merely an ideological outlet.…
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November 9, 2010 11:13 pm | By Paul Gordon
Supreme Court Considers Class Action Ban
Corporate interests already exercise an inordinate level of control over Americans' daily lives. This morning, in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that threatens to give yet another advantage to powerful corporations over…
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November 8, 2010 10:44 pm | By Miranda Blue
How DOMA Harms Real People in Real Ways: Exhibit A
The Justice Department today refused to step in to prevent the deportation Genesio Oliveira, a Brazilian man recently reunited with his husband, an American citizen, in Massuchusetts. In March, Oliveira and his husband followed the procedure to obtain a green…