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15 hours ago ago from Victor Caballero
Call your rep today and voice your opinion. http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml The House bill is H.R.1084. The Senate bill is S.2847. Adam Schiff of the CA Pasadena district has not expressed his position on the bill to his Staff Assistant Adam Carter in DC. Ads/Commercials are certainly louder. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has joined in the crusade to keep ads from blasting us out of our ...
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23 hours ago ago from Salisbury News
From the Chairman At every opportunity, the Democrats running Washington have taken the ‘government knows best’ approach to legislation dealing with the economy. Chairman Barney Frank’s financial regulatory bill passed by the House last week is no exception. Congress could have used the Republican proposal, H.R. 3310, as a starting point to implement appropriate reforms of the financial sector with little or no cost to taxpayers. Instead, ...
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