Democrats.com Weekly Agenda
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During the horrible week of September 17, 2007, Democratic voters were repeatedly betrayed by the Democratic Senate. They couldn't pass the Dodd bill to restore Habeas Corpus, the Webb Amendment to rest our troops, or the Feingold-Reid Amendment to mostly leave Iraq by June 2008. And then 23 Democrats joined all the Republicans to outrageously attack Moveon.org for a newspaper ad.
Never again! From now on, when Congress is in session, we will publish a Democrats.com Weekly Agenda listing all the actions we want the Democratic Congress to take that week.
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Added: Louise Slaughter (NY) Mazie Hirono (HI) |
9/24/07 House Senate |
| Oppose Dick Cheney's insane plan to Bomb Iran by supporting the Byrd Amendment to require Congressional approval of any attack on Iran. http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/91 Hold Congressional hearings on Cheney's secret Iran warmongering |
10/3 Byrd Amendment introduced | 10/1/07 House Senate |
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Reimpose a strict ban on warrantless wiretapping of American citizens and block amnesty and immunity for telephone companies that illegally spied |
10/17/07 weak House bill blocked by GOP. In Senate, Chris Dodd will filibuster immunity. | 9/24/07 House Senate |
| Pass H.R. 2740 to bring war mercenaries like Blackwater under U.S. law. Demand prosecution of Blackwater employees under the Uniform Code of Military Justice as required by the Graham Amendment. http://talkingpointsmemo.com |
On 10/4/07, H.R. 2740 passed House 389-30. The Senate unanimously passed a similar amendment on 9/27. Conference schedule unknown. | 10/1/07 Senate House |
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Pass the War Profiteering Prevention Act, H.R. 400. Demand prosecution of Halliburton and other contractors who have defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of billions. |
On 10/9/07, H.R. 400 passed House 375-3. The Senate version, S. 119, has not been debated. | 10/10/07 Senate House |
| Oppose Michael Mukasey for Attorney General because he (a) wants to keep Guantanamo open despite the strong objections of the world (b) would allow "enhanced interrogation techniques" which is just Bushspeak for torture, an international war crime, and (c) abused material-witness laws to lock up Muslims without charges http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/24/mukasey-signals-support-for-torture |
On 10/18/07 Mukasey refused to call waterboarding torture. | 9/24/07 Senate |
| Oppose Hans von Spakovsky for FEC Commissioner because of his key role in illegal voter suppression, disciminatory and illegal voter ID laws, the illegal TX redistricting engineered by Tom DeLay, and the stolen election in Florida http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/21/122027/759 |
Obama, Feingold put hold on nomination | 9/24/07 Senate |
| Pass the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act to establish criminal penalties for acts of voter deception. http://www.stopdeceptivepractices.org/ |
6/25/07 House passed on voice vote. |
10/18/07 Senate |
| Override Bush's veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/29/105649/366 |
9/27 Senate passed 67/29, enough for override |
9/24/07 House Senate |
| Hold White House officials in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas requiring their sworn testimony and documents. Since Bush's Justice Department refuses to enforce Congressional subpoenas, Congress must use its "inherent contempt" authority to put White House officials in a DC jail until they comply. http://democrats.com/subpoenas |
Conyers wants to enforce his subpoenas through contempt but Pelosi won't let him. | 9/24/07 House Senate |
| Pass the "Blackstone Bill" to eliminate the 15% tax loophole for publicly-traded partnerships and "carried interest" | Senate vote 10/15? | 10/11/07 Senate House |
| Pass a resolution to condemn Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for lying about his staff's role in smearing the family of 12-year-old Graeme Frost Pass a resolution to condemn House Minority Leader John Boehner for smearing the family of 2-year-old Bethany Wilkerson |
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| Pass a resolution to condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling troops who are critical of the Iraq Occupation "phony soldiers" and comparing them to suicide bombers. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/28/182951/795 And hold Limbaugh accountable by removing his show from Armed Forces Radio. |
GOP defending Limbaugh. | 10/1/07 |
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Investigate major news exposes: |
9/24/07 House Senate |
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| Join the http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/73 |
Added: Carolyn Kilpatrick Ed Towns Diane Watson |
9/24/07 House |
| Introduce Articles of Impeachment for George Bush for at least 10 egregiously impeachable offenses: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88 |
9/24/07 House |
| Future | Status | Chamber |
| Oppose Bush's $190 Billion request for Iraq for 2008 |
$9 Billion in Continuing Resolution; vote in January? |
Senate House |
| Sponsor the Lane Evans Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act to provide quality mental health care to veterans http://ThisIsForTheSoldiers.org Watch the PBS special on veterans with PTSD: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/339/index.html |
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| Support the Feinstein-Harkin bill to close Guantanamo | ||
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Repeal the Global Gag Rule that prohibits U.S. foreign aid to groups that inform poor women about abortion |
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| Pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) | ||
| Lift the Republican hold on S. 223, the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/27/102229/225 |
Senate | |
| Prohibit the use of Blackwater and other paramilitary forces inside the U.S. http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/29/come-saturday-morning-muddying-the-blackwater/ |
| Past issues | Resolution | Start/End |
| Oppose the Lieberman-Kyl-Graham-Coleman Declaration of War on Iran http://www.democrats.com/stop-the-lieberman-kyl-graham-coleman-declaration-of-war-on-iran |
In a huge victory, the explicit use of "military instruments" was removed from the Iran Sanctions Resolution that passed the Senate 76-22, but the Senate and House both called for Iran's Revolutionary Guards to be designated a "foreign terrorist organization" which Bush could claim as authorization for attacking Iran. | S:9/24/07 E:9/26/07 Senate |
| On Iraq, oppose the meaningless Abercrombie-Tanner reporting bill | 10/2/07 House passed 377-46 | 9/24/07 |
| Condemn Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) for calling the deaths of 3800 U.S. soldiers and 1 million Iraqis a "small price" (9/12/07) http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/12/boehner-troop-deaths-in-iraq-are-a-small-price/ |
No action | 9/27/07 |
| Condemn Fox News analyst Col. David Hunt for accusing our Generals of "betraying our soldiers ... again" http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/29/fox-analyst-generals-are-betraying-our-soldiers/ |
No action | 9/27/07 |
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