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Feb 23, 2013

House Republicans tried hard during their week off to label the huge March 1 cuts as "the President's sequester", but was President Obama really the cause? We go back to August 1, 2011, the day sequester was born, to see who was celebrating the cuts and how they passed the House.

August 1, 2011: The House of...


Feb 16, 2013

Hydropower and veterans get some love from the House this week, while churches get taxpayer money and Federal workers get screwed… again.

H.R. 267: Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act * Fast Tracks licensing for hydro-power generation on existing dams. * Passed with 0 No votes. * Only 3% of the 80,000 dams in the...


Feb 8, 2013

The House passes a surveillance bill masked as pediatric research and then wastes our time. Also, highlights from the leaked legal justification for the Obama Administration's "lawful" drone bombing of American citizens.

H.R. 225: National Pediatric Research Network Act of 2013 Introduced by Democrat Lois Capps of...


Feb 2, 2013

A quick fact check followed by an introduction to ALEC, the association of lawmakers and corporations working together to write bills.

Fact Checking CD011 Conversation Kim DotCom's Story Al Qaeda has been reported to be operating in the following...