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On Monday, the Senate voted 81-18 to end the government shutdown bringing an end to a 3-day showdown in the Senate. The Senate could not agree on a passing a clean Dream Act policy to protect Dreamers who parents brought them to the U.S. as kids for a better a life. Recap: In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the […]
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On September 5th, President Trump acted to remove existing legal protections for undocumented children in the United States. “DACA,” or “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals,” was established by the Obama Administration to allow immigrants brought to the United States as minors to participate fully in American life. By allowing young immigrants to renew their status as protected Americans every two […]
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Around 11 am today, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul announced his bid for the white house. According to Politico, he is running as the anti-establishment of the GOP; so far, we have Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and now Rand Paul running for the white house, and we are expecting Florida Senator Marco Rubio to make an announcement on April 13th, if […]
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“WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE FOR NOT VOTING? HOW DO WE CASUALLY DISCARD THE RIGHT TO VOTE WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE FOUGHT FOR? These are quotes from President Obama speech in Selma on Saturday, marking the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday March in 1965. 50 years ago, people such as John Lewis, Andrew Young, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams and many […]
Read moreWell, the GOP has failed to illustrate that they can lead and get anything done. Last week, the funding for DHS (Department of Homeland Security) was at risk because the legislation failed to pass with the revoking of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, which the GOP put into the legislation. Today, with Speaker Boehner has to pass a “clean […]
Read moreLast month the GOP controlled Congress voted to pass legislation on the Keystone XL pipeline that will allow Canada to transport their oil to the Gulf Shores and sell to other countries. Yesterday, President Obama vetoed the bill, which he stated many times to the GOP, and his reason is that the GOP are attempting to circumvent the State Department […]
Read moreThere are 2 critical issues that are taken place this week in Washington. First, is the funding for DHS, the real issue behind this contentious battle is the GOP attempting to revoke President Obama executive orders on immigration, which is why the Democrats are refusing to vote on this legislation. Last week, during a press conference, Speaker John Bohener stated […]
Read moreOn Tuesday, February 17th, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked President Obama executive orders on granting 5 million immigrants a legal status to stay in the U.S. His reasoning, of course siding with the right wing morons, is to allow 26 conservative states to file their lawsuits to prevent the 5 million immigrants to stay in the U.S. If you […]
Read moreOn Friday, January 30th the controlled GOP house voted 62-36 to pass the KeyStone XL pipeline, which will allow Canada to transport their oil from the U.S. Gulf Shores and sell to Canada, and President Obama may veto this bill. This project will create 35-50 jobs, and their will be no economic benefit for the U.S. One would question what […]
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SO, the newly controlled House of Reps VOTED TO OVERTURN President Obama Executive actions on immigration that protected millions of immigrants..Again, how in the world did these bafoons get “elected”, they have no alternative plan on fixing the immigration issue, they have not proposed a jobs bill, they have no plan to bring down the deficit, yet they are overturning […]
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