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Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing Begins.

The Senate Judiciary Committee began its hearings on whether or not to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor today. If she is confirmed, Sotomayor would become just the third woman and the …
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Fact Sheet: Minnesota Needs Health Care Reform.

Whether you’re one of the 14,000 Americans across the country who are losing their health insurance every day (190 a day here in Minnesota), one of the millions of Americans …
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Rep. Keith Ellison Does Citizen Journalism on the Public Option.

Congressman Keith Ellison took his Flip cam into the Capitol and interviewed his colleagues about health care and their support of a public option. Check out the video:     …
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Poverty in the LGBT Community.

Despite recent advances, a new report published by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual same-sex couples are at least as likely–and …
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Organized Crime Benefits from the Financial Crisis.

So says one UN agency: Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said that until the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, …
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National Campaign Finance Group says PCR Unallotment “Removes a Powerful Force of Democracy”.

The George Washington University-based Campaign Finance Institute released a statement today calling Governor Tim Pawlenty’s decision to eliminate the Political Contribution Rebate an elimination of "an important force for democracy …
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Congressional Republicans Encourage Bachmann to End Census Boycott.

Three Republican members of Congress have written a letter to Michelle Bachmann calling her boycott of the census "illogical, illegal, and not in the best interest of our country." Every …
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What’s Health Care Like in France and the Netherlands?

   Photo Credit: New York Times   In a 2003 ranking of 20 advanced countries, the United States finished 16th in “mortality amenable to health care,” a statistic that determines …