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• Gay Culverhouse, a Grandmother Who Speaks Truth to NFL Power

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 492
  Instantly noticeable among the dark suits at the House Judiciary Committee hearing two weeks ago, Gay Culverhouse stood out in her purple dress, but even more for what she said. [...]
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• Kings grandstanding sank Republican amendments to PATRIOT Act

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Representative Steve King (IA-05) enjoyed Thursdays "House call" rally against health care reform so much that he organized another rally at the Capitol today to "kill the bill." Unfortunately for fellow Republicans, King and several other ...
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• Reps. Conaway and Green: Champions of Radio

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 119
  There is a discussion of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) scheduled for November 17 on Capitol Hill.  Among the invited participants are National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President/CEO Gordon Smith and Joint Board Chair/Commonwealth Broadcasting President/CEO Steve Newberry, as well as representatives of ...
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• State Secrets Bill Passes House Judiciary, 18-12

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 723
  The House Judiciary just passed Jerry Nadler’s bill reining in state secrets abuse by a vote of 18-12, with Adam Schiff as the sole Democrat voting against the bill. One thing Nadler has added to his bill since it was first introduced are measures to prevent the government from refusing to give plaintiff lawyers ...
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• Congressional Supporters of Performance Royalty Tell NAB to Negotiate With Music Industry - Will It Resolve Anything?

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 486
  This week, six Congressional supporters of the broadcast performance royalty wrote a letter  calling upon the NAB to sit down with music industry representatives to reach a "negotiated resolution" of the "longstanding disagreement" in a session to last from November 17 through December 1.  The letter suggests ...
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• Citing Kalamazoo vote, Mich. House panel sends civil rights law to floor

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 665
  LANSING — The Michigan House Judiciary Committee Wednesday voted 9-5 to send legislation to the full House to amend civil rights laws in the state to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. “With the passage in Kalamazoo last night by overwhelming majority of voters of a similar ...
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• “Truth” Update: New Bi-Partisan Co-sponsors

  
  Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines — Authority: 119
  Your emails to Congress are paying off! The “Truth in Trials” Act has new bi-partisan support, including backing from two members who serve on the committee with jurisdiction over HR 3939.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI/14) and U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY/8), Tom McClintock ...
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• Limbaugh: ‘I’d Like To Have A Beer With McNabb’

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 724
  Roger Goodell probably didn’t expect The Spanish Inquisition when he went to The Hill on Wednesday for a hearing entitled “Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries.” But that’s what he got, courtesy of Steve King of Iowa (R-Nuts), who used it as an opportunity to grill Goodell on his opposition to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Steve King to NFL Commissioner: Apologize to Rush!

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Here’s an interesting confrontation from a hearing on the Hill today between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he’d “scoured” Rush Limbaugh’s infamous comment that the media was giving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb too much credit because he was black ...
  2 weeks ago

• House Panel Questions N.F.L.s Handling of Head Injuries

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 781
  The commissioner of the National Football League defended the leagues response to the issue of concussions and the care of retired players before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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• Social Worker Raided for Rioting on Twitter Wants His Pickaxes Back

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  This seems almost too weird to be true, but Wired reports that on Oct. 1, federal agents seized the computers, manuscripts and pickaxes of an anarchist social worker in Queens, N.Y., claiming he violating anti-rioting laws on Twitter. Elliot Madison, who counsels seriously mentally ill patients, first came under ...
  2 weeks ago

• Impeachment of Sanford may stall

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  A fellow Republican lawmakers expected impeachment move against South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will go nowhere unless new information against Mr. Sanford surfaces during a special session of the state legislature that begins Tuesday, state Republican officials told The Washington Times. "I think the governor should ...
  2 weeks ago

• The House Judiciary Committee has voted along with 3 republicans to strip federal antitrust regulations!

  
  WHITE NOISE INSANITY — Authority: 134
  We’re taking baby steps in health care reform, but this is a major step in finally coming down on the out of control health insurance companies who have raked Americans clean financially for years now! From the Washington Post : The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to strip federal antitrust ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dems Aim To Strip Insurance Industry Of Anti-Trust Exemption

  
  Working for Our Common Good — Authority: 134
  From Huffington Post:A House committee has voted to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws as senators announced plans to take the same step.The moves Wednesday signaled a growing determination by Democrats to punish the insurance industry for its criticism of President Barack ...
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• If Sue ever said anything intelligent, it would be a Myrickle.

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  From THE HILL : Republican members of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus said the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have tried to plant “spies” within key national-security committees in order to shape legislative policy. Reps. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.), John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), Paul Broun (R-Ga.) ...
  3 weeks ago

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