CD020: Continuing Resolution, Part 2
Part 2 of the Continuing Resolution which funds the government until September 30th. In this section, we look at the funding for the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security.
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CD017: VAWA & Funding Defense
We take a close look at the Violence Against Women Act re-authorization as the President signs it into law. We also look at the continuing resolution passed by the House, which funds defense while leaving the rest of the government in chaos. Read More
CD016: They Want Cuts
No one really tried to avert the sequester, the House of Representatives travels in style, and something good actually happened this week in Congress. Read More
CD015: Who Caused Sequester?
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. Read More
CD014: Marching Towards Sequester
Hydropower and veterans get some love from the House this week, while churches get taxpayer money and Federal workers get screwed… again. Read More
CD013: Surveillance, Stupidity, & Drones
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. Read More