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• Former FBI director to review handling of info on Fort Hood suspect

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  There are federal prisoners being held in county jails around this country on terrorism charges and who have most probably NOT killed anyone, and this Nidal Malik Hasan character is being charged with premeditated murder??  Former FBI Director William Webster was appointed Tuesday to conduct an independent ...
  21 hours ago

• ACORN Whitewash: What ACORN Won’t Tell You About the ‘Audit’ it Bought

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  On September 16, 2009, with much fanfare, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis  announced that ACORN was hiring an independent auditor to review its internal processes.  Yesterday, the former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger produced a report finding ACORN, as a corporation, engaged in administrative negligence. ...
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• Myths and Realities About the Patriot Act

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 546
  Myths and Realities About the Patriot Act There are many misconceptions about the Patriot Act, and the people who support reforms to bring the bill in line with the Constitution. One of the biggest distributor of misinformation about the Patriot Act has been the government, like when the House Judiciary Committee ...
  3 days ago

• Merit Selection Hearing Monday in Harrisburg

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 122
  On Monday December 7, the Courts Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the pending Merit Selection legislation .  The hearing will be at 10:00 am in Room G50, Irvis Office, Capitol Building. Testifying in support of implementing a Merit Selection ...
  5 days ago

• Congressman Nadler Defends ACORN, Again

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  This morning, at a hearing of the Constitution Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) raised the issue of a need for a full congressional investigation of ACORN.  As Rep. King notes, Subcommittee Chair Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has said he would consider an investigation as soon as he saw ...
  6 days ago

• Republicans Demand More ACORN Hearings, Special Prosecutor

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) reaches into his bucket of acorns at Tuesdays ACORN forum. (twitpic: darrellissa) As legislators streamed into the room around him, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, peered over his glasses at the roughly 60 people who’d come to this special ...
  1 week ago

• Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 546
  Editor’s Note: Unclear my ass. Read the Bill of Rights Source: ABC News Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this ...
  1 week ago

• Merit Selection Hearing Scheduled for December 7

  
  judgesonmerit.org — Authority: 122
  Good news from the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts: a hearing on the Merit Selection legislation will be held in Harrisburg, Monday December 7 from 9:30 am - 12:30 pm in the Irvis Building, Room G-650 .  We thank Subcommittee Chair Don Walko for scheduling the hearing, as well as House ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conyers: Im getting tired of saving Obamas can

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Conyers: Im getting tired of saving Obamas can By Michael OBrien - 11/19/09 11:16 AM ET President Barack Obama is "bowing down" to Republicans and corporate interests on health reform, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said Thursday. Conyers, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a longtime advocate of ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 469
  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. [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Kings grandstanding sank Republican amendments to PATRIOT Act

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reps. Conaway and Green: Champions of Radio

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• State Secrets Bill Passes House Judiciary, 18-12

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 711
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Congressional Supporters of Performance Royalty Tell NAB to Negotiate With Music Industry - Will It Resolve Anything?

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 120
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Citing Kalamazoo vote, Mich. House panel sends civil rights law to floor

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 609
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• “Truth” Update: New Bi-Partisan Co-sponsors

  
  Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Limbaugh: ‘I’d Like To Have A Beer With McNabb’

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 726
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Steve King to NFL Commissioner: Apologize to Rush!

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  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 ...
  6 weeks ago

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

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 795
  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.
  6 weeks ago

• Social Worker Raided for Rioting on Twitter Wants His Pickaxes Back

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  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 ...
  6 weeks ago

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