Every couple years a possible “lame duck” session of Congress re-emerges into the political limelight, and many Americans are left scratching their heads. So in case you need a quick refresher, a “lame duck” session is when Congress conducts a legislative session after major elections have taken place, but before the successors to the newly won seats take office.

Once again a lame duck session of Congress could be upon us this November, and if you’re not concerned, you should be. John Fund recently noted in the Wall Street Journal that “party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don’t want to defend before November.”

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Candidate’s Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History NYTimes

 At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

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If the feds aren’t going to do their jobs, then it is every state’s sovereign right to protect its own borders. Go Arizona!!

Senate Bill 63 passed out of TN Senate today with the leadership of Sen. Ketron. Now we need to pressure House members to vote FOR the bill this coming Wednesday morning in House budget sub-committee.

If you live in TN, please consider using this link to contact members of the budget committee and tell them to PASS HB 262 by Rep. Watson.

Also pressure TN House speaker WIlliams to stop trying to kill the bill and vote FOR its passage. Speaker Williams is reached at 615 741 7450

HB 262/SB 63 will ensure that the driver’s license exam be administered solely in English for permanent license applicants. We must have a uniform language among motorists to understand English written signs and to effectively communicate with each other and emergency personnel.

Thank you

http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/committees/sub-budget.html

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Cross posted from New Zeal

Juan Lopez is chairman of the Communist Party USA in Northern California.

In today’s Peoples World he claims an “historic victory” in the health care front and looks forward to more more battles on the road to American socialism.

Lopez makes it clear that Obamacare is only a first step on the road to fully socialized healthcare “enshrined in the Bill of Rights, as an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing free health care for all as a basic human right”.

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April 09, 2010
Rep. Bart Stupak Announces His Retirement After Health Care Controversy
FOXNews.com

Hi folks, my name is Forrest Stupak and I am here to help rip-off the future of our American childern and their childern and their childerns’ children. I could have stopped all of this non-sense but I am a weakling and I always want to feel good because I am a liberal.
Now I quit and I want to go home.

Sunday: Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., holds up an executive order to be signed by President Obama reaffirming a ban on the use of federal funds to provide abortions, an order Stupak says is enough to win his vote to pass the health insurance overhaul. (AP Photo)

Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, the central player in a grueling abortion debate underlying the health care law, announced Friday he will retire from Congress at the end of this term, because “it’s time to begin a new and exciting chapter.”

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