WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With the Pentagon’s release of a five-year budget plan that cuts $260 billion in defense spending, The American Legion is pressing Congress to find other ways by which to reduce the country’s staggering $15.2 trillion debt. Over the next decade, defense spending must be cut by $450 billion as ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Consumer Watchdog today called on President Obama to use the State of the Union message to endorse baseline privacy legislation and support “Do Not Track” regulations that would give consumers control of whether their information is gathered while they use the Internet. “You recently expressed your commitment to maintaining ...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the Republican Party to repudiate GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s call for profiling of American Muslims. In a debate aired on CNN last night, Santorum was asked if he would support ethnic and religious profiling. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, the debate’s ...
Editor’s Note: responses from the 1% are welcome. ————————————— Workers Call on the Top 1% to Stop Destroying Jobs NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Teamster art handlers and hundreds of their supporters from Occupy Wall Street protested outside Sotheby’s [NYSE: BID] during billionaire Lily Safra’s auction of important pieces from her estate today. ...
By Josh Truman PHILADELPHIA, PA / June 7, 2011 – Anthony Weiner, the politician, has been in the headlines for some messages that were put up on twitter. What’s not making headlines is the discrimination he is facing because of his sexual orientation. If Mr. Weiner is oriented towards texting, sending photos, etc. that’s his ...
National American Legion Convention, Milwaukee, WI. September 1, 2010 In what, he says, may be his last public speaking appearance before retirement from Congress, Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) used the American Legion convention in Milwaukee Wednesday as a platform for criticism of what he characterized as a partisan, hypocritical and misguided Congress. The nine-term Congress-man ...
Letter to CMS Cites Need for Open and Transparent Oversight of the Bid Program ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A bipartisan group of 136 members of Congress recently requested that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disclose the list of homecare providers whose bids were used to calculate home medical equipment ...
By Gary Goldfarb May 20, 2010/ PHILADELPHIA – With all the recent news of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 law, a Mexican being beaten and the Mexican president calling the law ‘racist’, does this mean that Mexicans are of a certain race? Last I checked, Mexico is a country. Let’s switch countries around to see: So, if ...
PHILADELPHIA, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), joined by Wounded Warrior veterans including a member of his own staff, today keynoted the national launch of the innovative AMVETS Warrior Transition Workshops. The workshops were developed by combat veterans for combat veterans to assist in their transition from military to civilian life. The program ...
Public Forum Also to Activate Black Participation in 2010 Census LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Some noted Black leaders recently have suggested publicly that President Obama does not need to focus on Black issues. In response to mounting evidence showing African Americans are disproportionately lagging behind on all economic indicators despite assertions of a ...