Congress

At White House Lie-In, Teens Call On Congress To ‘Protect Kids, Not Guns’

February 20, 2018 Jack Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Congress, Guns, Protests, White House, Youth Activism

Building on the nationwide mourning and outrage that followed a Florida school shooting last week that left 17 people dead, dozens of teenagers held a "lie-in" at the gates of the White House on Monday to protest years of congressional inaction on gun control and highlight the National Rifle Association's pernicious influence on the political process. The demonstration began with protesters—many of them from the group Teens for Gun Reform (TGR), which organized the event—lying on the ground in front of the White House for several minutes, symbolizing "how quickly someone, such as the Parkland shooter, is able to purchase a gun in America." "We have organized this protest in solidarity with all of those who were affected by the horrific school shooting in Florida," TGR said in a statement.

Disability Activists Crash Congress To Stop Bill Undermining Their Civil Rights

February 17, 2018 By Mike Ludwig, Truthout.org Resist! Activists, Congress, Disability Rights, Legislation

Anita Cameron remembers the Capitol Crawl like it was yesterday. It was the spring of 1990, and Congress was dragging its feet toward a vote on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark piece of legislation protecting the civil rights of people with disabilities. To call attention to the bill and the accessibility challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis, Cameron and dozens of other activists left their wheelchairs and walkers at the steps of the Capitol building and crawled their way to the top before filling the rotunda with their chanting voices. Cameron and more than 100 others were arrested that day. The protest had an impact: President George H. W. Bush signed the ADA into law a few months later. However, the ADA has not been a magic bullet and is now under threat.

Operation: #OneMoreVote

February 10, 2018 Staff, Fightforthefuture.org Resist! Congress, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Protest planning, led by Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press Action Fund, has just begun, but already well known companies like Etsy, Medium, Vimeo, Imgur, Namecheap and Sonos have announced their participation, along with groups like Consumer Reports, the ACLU, Common Cause, Engine, and Daily Kos. Many other participants will be announced in the coming days. 50 Senators have already come out in support of the CRA, which would overturn the FCC’s December 14 decision and restore net neutrality protections that prevent Internet providers from controlling the web with throttling, censorship, and new fees. The February 27 push is laser focused on securing the final vote needed to pass the resolution in the Senate.

As Congress Feeds The Merchants Of Death, The People Must Divest

February 6, 2018 Medea Benjamin and Elliott Swain, Popular Resistance. Resist! Congress, Divestment, Wars and Militarism, weapons

In recent budget negotiations, Senate Democrats agreed to a boost in military spending that exceeded the cap for fiscal 2018 by $70 billion, bringing the total request to an enormous $716 billion. Inevitably, this means more Pentagon contracts will be awarded to private corporations that use endless war to line their pockets. Democrats capitulated to this massive increase without so much as a scuffle. But the move hardly comes as a surprise, given how much money flows from weapons makers to the coffers of congressional campaigns for both parties.

The Democrats’ Half-Assed Answer To The Trump Tax Cuts

February 5, 2018 Max B. Sawicky, Jacobinmag.com Educate! Congress, Electoral Politics, Tax cuts for the rich, Tax Reform, Trump Administration

The Democratic Party brain trust is floating new ideas on taxes. Their economics are questionable and their politics are worse. From the heart of Barack Obama’s exiled brain trust comes Jason Furman, former head of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, with a proposal in the Wall Street Journal to “repeal and replace” the recent Trump/Republican tax cuts. How do his ideas compare to alternatives that might appeal to readers of this journal — not to mention the vast legions of Berniecrats and The Resistance. Furman’s analysis provides a useful window into the concerns of financial elites. To be fair, he takes aim at certain sources of tax relief for the rich, including those related to capital gains and “pass-through” entities (a form of business organization often used by medium-to-large-sized companies).

Honduran Congress Deepens Authoritarianism By Legalizing Political Corruption

February 2, 2018 By Heather Gies, Towardfreedom.com Educate! Congress, Corruption, Electoral Politics, Honduras

As Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sworn in for a second term Saturday amid ongoing protests and cries of election fraud, the scandal-rocked president promised to tackle corruption. But thousands of anti-government demonstrators facing off blocks away against local police, the armed forces, and military police under plumes of teargas saw the vow as disingenuous. For protesters, Hernández has kept a stranglehold on power through electoral fraud and military might, consolidating what they slam as a “narco-dictatorship” that pads its own pockets while condemning the majority to misery in the most unequal country in Latin America. Marred by widespread allegations of fraud, the November 26th elections plunged Honduras into its worst political crisis since the 2009 US-backed military coup.

Congressmen Pushing LNG Exports Bills Have Deep Financial, Revolving Door Ties

January 24, 2018 By Steve Horn, Desmogblog.com Educate! Congress, LNG, Money in Politics

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce held a subcommittee hearing on two bills to expedite permitting for exports of natural gas. Domestic production of this fossil fuel has been booming in recent years, mainly thanks to hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) opening up vast reserves in shale formations. Several former and present committee staffers have either taken oil and gas industry-sponsored trips as staffers or spun through the government-industry revolving door between Congress and the lobbying sector. And all of the politicians backing the two bills under consideration have taken tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from the oil and gas industry for their 2018 mid-term election campaigns.

Congress Votes To Move Forward With Surveillance Under Trump

January 18, 2018 By Alex Emmons, Theintercept.com Educate! Congress, Electoral Politics, Surveillance, Trump Administration

A CRITICAL MASS of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to shut down any further debate on a bill that strengthens the government’s spying powers. The bill would renew a key surveillance authority for the National Security Agency until 2023 and consolidate the FBI’s power to search Americans’ digital communications without a warrant. The motion, which passed 60-38, virtually guarantees that the final bill will pass likely later this week and quashes any opportunity to debate whether protections should be added. Eighteen Democrats — including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had previously proposed an amendment to restrict the FBI’s surveillance authority — voted in support of the motion. They were joined by 41 Republicans and one independent, Angus King, giving the pro-surveillance bloc the supermajority needed to push the bill forward. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dan Sullivan, R-Ala., did not vote.

It’s Time We Occupied Congress

January 16, 2018 Joy First, Popular Resistance. Resist! Congress, Peace, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

As I entered my jail cell at Capitol Police Headquarters in Washington, DC, I sat down on the cold steel bench and looked around thinking - here I am again. My eyes came to the mirror above the toilet and I noticed the word “occupy” scraped into the glass and it brought a smile to my face. I thought someone was here before me, someone who cared about the same things I cared about, someone who thought the way I thought, someone who, like me, was doing what they could to try to make the world a better place. And then I thought that this was a message that was coming to me across time, a message with a deeper meaning for me right here and right now.

Challenging Trump’s Ability To Launch Nuclear First Strike

January 13, 2018 Brett Abrams, Globalzero.org Educate! Congress, Nuclear Weapons

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a new open letter to members of Congress, seventeen former nuclear launch officers issue a grave warning regarding President Trump’s unfettered access to nuclear weapons, declaring that the current U.S. nuclear launch process “poses a clear and present danger to the country and the world: No one — not the secretary of defense, not the attorney general, not Congress — can veto that order. There are no reliable safeguards in place to contain this power.” The letter comes on the heels of last week’s alarming tweets from President Trump in which he boasted about having a “much bigger and more powerful” nuclear button on his desk than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

7 Protesters Arrested After Sit-In At Rep. Steny Hoyer’s Office

January 13, 2018 Talia Richman, Baltimoresun.com Resist! Congress, Protests, Sit-In, Yemen

The protesters were demanding to meet with the Southern Maryland lawmaker about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. A group of about 12 protesters gathered in Hoyer’s office Thursday afternoon and refused to leave. They carried photos of Yemeni children, and some had their hands painted red. They were motivated by “desperation and frustration that people continue to die in Yemen,” said David Bradbury, an Australian filmmaker who attended the protest. Years of war have devastated the country and about 75 percent of the its population is in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. The Yemeni children’s poorest country has faced sustained bombings and famine. The protesters believed that Hoyer has not used his “pivotal, crucial role in Congress” to spur the necessary action, Bradbury said. Capitol Police spokeswoman Eva Malecki said the group was charged with unlawful entry.

Americans Ready For Less U.S. Military Intervention & More Congressional Oversight

January 12, 2018 Staff, Responsibleforeignpolicy.org Educate! Congress, US Imperialism, US military

Washington, D.C. January 2, 2018. Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy – a bipartisan initiative designed to advocate for more oversight of U.S. military intervention abroad – commissioned research on U.S. citizens’ positions on war intervention. The coalition announced today that the results prove a majority of Americans are mostly skeptical of the benefits of military intervention overseas and military aid in the form of funds or equipment. The examination, conducted by J. Wallin Opinion Research in partnership with Gunster Strategies, was designed to measure attitudinal responses to U.S. military intervention in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Congressman Works With Business Group Benefiting From Tax Bill

January 4, 2018 By Alex Kotch, Ibtimes.com Educate! Congress, Corruption, Money in Politics, Tax Reform

Congressional ethics laws appear to require lawmakers to recuse themselves from shaping or voting on laws that would financially benefit themselves, their family or their future employers. But Ohio Rep. Pat Tiberi accepted an offer to run a state trade organization, the Ohio Business Roundtable (BRT), while helping write the Republican tax bill. The trade group’s member companies have donated to Tiberi’s political campaigns, and many of them stand to gain from the bill, which slashed business income taxes and introduced several provisions that will benefit wealthy investors and corporate executives in various industries. He will begin the job by January 31st. International Business Times has identified 17 companies that are both members of BRT and donors to Tiberi’s 2018 campaign committee.

Congress Opens Alaska Wildlife Refuge To Drilling, But Roadblocks Remain

December 22, 2017 Sabrina Shankman, insideclimatenews.org Resist! Alaska, Arctic drilling, Congress

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could soon be open to drilling, thanks to the tax bill passed by Congress this week, but one key question remains: Once oil companies can drill in the refuge, will they jump at the chance? A provision tucked into the Republican tax overhaul calls for opening the refuge's coastal plain, a 1.5 million acre stretch of land that did not share the refuge's protected status. Republicans have fought for decades to allow drilling there. But those hoping that oil companies will flock to the refuge—and that revenues raised can help offset some of the deficit created by the tax bill—might be sorely disappointed, said Bud Coote, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center.

Before House & Senate Vote, Here’s 13 Worst Things In Tax Scam

December 21, 2017 Staff, commondreams.org Educate! Congress, Tax Reform, Taxes

Tax experts warn the proposal prioritizes wealthiest Americans—like President Donald Trump, his billionaire cabinet, and the many millionaires in Congress—at the expense of working families with children. As opponents continue to raise alarms about the GOP tax plan being pushed by President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers—with the House expected to vote Tuesday afternoon and the Senate later in the day—a new analysis details 13 ways the proposed tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals will negatively impact American families and the U.S. economy while lavishing rewards on corporations and the rich.

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