Washington Weekly Review

Coalition Guest Commentary - Rep. Todd Tiahrt: Taxpayer Subsidization of ACORN Fraud Must End

I am introducing a congressional resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives in light of the recent reports of criminal activity involving ACORN and their long history of tax-exemption abuse. I am calling on Congress to terminate ACORN's tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

My resolution expresses the sense of Congress that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) should lose its exemption from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

I have introduced this resolution because of a number of abuses by ACORN. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seven employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (commonly referred to as ‘‘ACORN'') were charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before the 2008 elections... (Read More)

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Rep. Steve King Demands President Obama Fire Homosexual Activist in his Education Department

It has been an interesting time for the czars in the Obama administration. First, television talk show host Glenn Beck forced the president to throw his green jobs czar, Van Jones, a former or current avowed communist, under the bus.

The Democrat Senator from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold, held a hearing which questioned the constitutionality of so many czars; over 30 such unconfirmable-by-the-Senate czars in the Obama admistration. Also this week, Republican Congressman Steve King demanded that the president fire a radical homosexual activist, Kevin Jennings, the Safe School Czar in the Department of Education.

What makes Kevin Jennings so unsafe is that when he was a high school teacher, he told a 15-year-old boy, who said that he was in a sexual relationtionship with an older man, that "I hope you used a condom." He was required by law to notify the authorities; he also refused to tell the boy's parents... (Read More)

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Attempt to Overturn "Hate Crimes" Legislation Blocked in the House of Representatives

Note the latest news from the Office of the Republican Whip in the United States House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, from Virginia.

"Tonight, Republicans offered a motion to instruct conferees to remove the hate crimes language from the Defense Authorization conference report. (That language was added in the Senate.) The vote on this motion failed by a vote of 178-234 (R, 156-9; D, 22-225). The hate crimes bill passed the House as a standalone measure on April 29 by a vote of 249-175 (R, 18-158; D, 231-17). Please let me know if you have any questions. And thank you to those of you who expressed support for removing this language from the Defense Authorization bill!"

Here is the background information on the so-called "hate crimes" legislation voted on today from the office of the Chairman of the House Values Action Team, Congressman Joseph Pitts, from Pennsylvania... (Read More)

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CBO Shocks Congress with a Nearly Trillion Dollar Cost for Health Care

Wednesday evening, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its cost estimate of the gigantic health care set of concepts -- it actually is not a bill and there is no legislative language -- which came out of the Senate Finance Committee chaired by Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus. With interest, CBO's cost for Obamacare, $829 billion, could skyrocket to $1 trillion including interest payments.

At the same time, it was revealed that the Fiscal Year 2009 budget deficit was a whopping $1.4 TRILLION, which was 3 times last year's budget deficit which was the previous highest deficit in American history. President George W. Bush is responsible for a portion of the FY09 budget deficit because of his bailout of the banks and investment companies last year. However, the Obama administration should get by far most of the blame for the $1.4 trillion budget. The Obama stimulus bill passed earlier this year will cost the American taxpayers nearly $1 trillion (with interest payments)... (Read More)

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Will Supreme Court Dishonor Veterans and Abolish Mojave Desert Cross?

America will find out how far to the left its federal judiciary has gone when the United States Supreme Court rules on whether or not a cross memorializing World War I veterans can remain on federal property. Today, the nation'a top court considered a case, Salazar vs. Buono, commonly called the "Mojave Desert Cross" case.

A federal district court ruled that the 5 feet by 8 feet cross in the Mojave Desert had to be removed. The left-wing judge found that the primary effect of the cross was to advance religion, in violation of the Constitution's Establishment Clause. The Republican-controlled Congress in 2004 enacted legislation which directed the Interior Department, now under Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, to transfer an acre of land including the cross honoring World War I veterans to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in exchange for land equal in value.

The most out-of-touch Circuit Court of Appeals in the land, the 9th Circuit in San Francisco -- which has most of its major decisions overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court -- permanently stopped the government from implementing the Act of Congress. The cross is now disgracefully covered in a plywood box, as ordered by the unelected judicial tyrants... (Read More)

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Pew Poll Shows Support for Abortion Has Declined From 54% to 47%

The bipartisan Prolife Caucus in the United States House of Representatives is circulating a letter authored by Congressman Doug Lamborn, Republican from Colorado, to be sent to all 435 members of the House of Representatives.

Incidentally, a tremendous champion for the unborn, Democrat Congressman Bart Stupak from Michigan, has been threatening the Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives by saying that he has about 40 fellow Democrats who will refuse to vote for the health care reform bill unless they are given an opportunity to vote on an iron-clad provision which prevents American hard-earned tax dollars from going to pay for abortions... (Read More)

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Senator Grassley Exposes Stealth Changes by Democrats in Obamacare Bill

Earlier this week, the ranking member of the Senate Financial Services Committee which debated its version of Obamacare last month -- the Democrats' socialized medicine scheme, a $829 billion monstrosity -- Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, accused the Democrats of making changes which are bad for America's seniors, veterans and workers.

That committee's Obamacare bill will be up for a vote in the committee next Tuesday which -- if passed in the committee by the 13 Democrats on the committee (10 Republicans) -- will be merged with the Senate health and education committee's even more left-wing legislation, a bill costing the American economy far more than 1 TRILLION dollars.

The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada will then come up with a compromise bill working with the two major committee chairmen, Senators Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut and Max Baucus, D-Montana. Senator Reid hopes to have a bill on the Senate and House floor in a few weeks.

Senator Grassley said of the sneaky midnight moves by the Democrats' staffers making changes in his committee's bill which are detrimental to our nation's seniors, veterans and laborers: "These changes need to see the light of day. Americans considering what this health care proposal means for them deserve to know that Medicare prescription drug premiums would probably go up, veterans' access to health care would be diminished, and workers' wages could be garnished in the midst of growing unemployment and a prolonged recession, in order to pay for other spending in the health reform bill... (Read More)

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