Rep. Barbara Lee Barbara Lee Issues Statement Following the Presidential Debate
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Oakland, CA – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) issued the following statement on the Presidential Debate:
“The choice presented tonight was clear: we can either move forward with President Obama who has ended the war in Iraq and is winding down the war in Afghanistan or go back to the same 'war without end' approach that has cost our nation so dearly. We must move forward with President Obama”.
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Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Jim McGovern last Tuesday proposed two Constitutional amendments on the House floor that would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which lifted limits on political spending and unleashed a flood of funding into political organizations starting in 2010.
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) today introduced two Constitutional amendments to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, which unleashed a flood of corporate and special interest money into the American political system.
THE FIRST three words of the preamble of our Constitution are “We the People.’’ Two years ago today the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission upended that promising vision. Corporations — which do not have mouths, minds, or consciences — won a “free speech’’ right to spend unlimited money to influence elections.
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern said he will never forget a tip he received from an old boss about the way things work on Capitol Hill.