WASHINGTON — Senator Tom Harkin, the Democrat from Iowa who championed landmark legislation banning discrimination against people with disabilities, said Saturday that he would retire and not seek re-election next year to a sixth term. […]
This is a thing of beauty.
Democratic Senator Harry Reid may seem more like Clark Kent, but he’s actually Superman.
NO DEAL WOULD BE BETTER THAN A BAD DEAL.
In which Rachel Maddow absolutely destroys the Republican Party.
A great big dose of awesome from Rachel Maddow.
Do you know someone who doesn’t think their vote will matter in this election?
Forward this video along to them
(Source: barackobama.com)
Legendary Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready is joining forces with filmmaker Jesse Dylan to urge voters to pledge their vote only to congressional candidates that support the Affordable Care Act in an emotional new video.
The two speak out in support of the Affordable Care Act specifically because of their personal experiences living with and loving people with pre-existing conditions. In the video, Mike McCready details his experiences with health insurance companies living with Crohn’s disease.
Jesse Dylan was also inspired to take action by his son’s illness. He founded Lybba, at www.lybba.org to create compassionate communities of care to redesign healthcare for good. In the video, McCready and Dylan ask voters to pledge their support for candidates that support the Affordable Care Act. Mike McCready started a petition on SignOn.org where people can join him to pledge their vote for candidates that support the Affordable Care Act
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About the Author: Ambassador-at-Large Luis Cdebaca serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and directs the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
Ten years ago, in the federal courthouse in Honolulu, I was among a small group of civil rights prosecutors who had just started trial in the largest slavery prosecution in U.S. history, in which over 300 Chinese and Vietnamese workers had been enslaved in a garment factory in American Samoa. But on the third day of trial, a hammer blow fell on our prosecution team: Paul and Sheila Wellstone’s airplane had gone down in northeastern Minnesota, taking their lives as well as that of their daughter and several aides. Senator Wellstone was not just the conscience of the Senate, a voice for the dispossessed and an inspiration to so many, he was the sponsor of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. He was not only a fellow Midwestern wrestler, but had been… more »
The video outlines the challenges America faced as President Obama took office at the height of the worst recession in almost a century and details the progress that has been made reclaiming the security of the middle class and building an economy that’s meant to last, where hard work pays and responsibility is rewarded.
Please Watch. If you don’t have seven minutes to watch it right now, then bookmark & come back to it. But please watch.
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Al Franken being awesome, as usual.
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