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  <title>Open Congress : Blog Articles for H.R.1921 Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act</title>
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  <updated>2011-05-12T01:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>H.R.1921: To provide for certain enhanced border ... - OpenCongress</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2011-05-12:/commentary/10905838</id>
    <updated>2011-05-12T01:00:00Z</updated>
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Or, if you know of a news article about this bill to display here, email us the web address of this page and the web address of your suggested news article: Our editorial team will post relevant links as quickly as possible. Thanks for helping to build pub&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h1921/show&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>The Modern Left: The literal cost of war</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-05:/commentary/3591365</id>
    <updated>2008-12-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>The Modern Left </name>
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The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF), based in Washington, D.C., is a not-for-profit organization which advocates for passage of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (currently H.R. 1921). When enacted, this law will ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themodernleft.com/2008/12/literal-cost-of-war.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Portland Couple Has Refused to Pay Taxes for 30 Years to Protest ...</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-20:/commentary/3463152</id>
    <updated>2008-07-20T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>AlterNet.org </name>
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H.R.1921 Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill The bill is to create a fund allowing conscientious objectors ,for religious or moral grounds,to pay thier full tax liability into a fund dedicated to non military spending. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/82447/portland_couple_has_refused_to_pay_taxes_for_30_years_to_protest_military_funding/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>July 4, 2008 &#226;&#8364;&#8221; Peace is Patriotic</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-05:/commentary/2454925</id>
    <updated>2008-07-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Paul&amp;#39;s Perambulations </name>
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... to Interim Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting requesting that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting send a letter to all members of Congress asking for their support of the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (currently HR 1921). ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.peacefulways.com/?p=38&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Praying for Peace - Paying for War &#194;&#171; PaxBlog</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-23:/commentary/3463151</id>
    <updated>2008-06-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>PaxBlog </name>
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Please contact your elected officials in Washington and ask them to suppor the Peace Tax Fund Bill, H.R. 1921. For more information contact: Nation Campaign For A Peace Tax Fund 2121 Decatur Place NW. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://paxjoliet.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/praying-for-peace-paying-for-war/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>A Just Foreign Policy Resource Guide</title>
    <link href="http://green-changemakers.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-environmental-problems.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-10:/commentary/2354873</id>
    <updated>2008-06-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>The Green Changemakers </name>
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The Choices Program&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s Teaching with the News initiative provides online curriculum materials and ideas to connect the content of the classroom to the headlines in the news. Its lesson plans cover a range of foreign policy and ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://green-changemakers.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-environmental-problems.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>The &amp;quot;Peace Tax&amp;quot;</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-29:/commentary/2257992</id>
    <updated>2008-05-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>A Thin Place </name>
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The form of the &amp;quot;peace tax&amp;quot; that is currently before Congress is HR 1921, the &amp;quot;Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act.&amp;quot; Skipping over findings and definitions, we find the guts of the act in section 4, which states in subsection a that: .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://a-thin-place.blogspot.com/2008/05/peace-tax.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>$16500 - Iraq War tax bill for average family of 4</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-01:/commentary/2153296</id>
    <updated>2008-05-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Shalom House </name>
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When Congress passes the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (HR-1921), I will resume paying my income tax to the US government. I know that I will be breaking the law and I am prepared to accept the consequences, because when a ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shalomhouse.us/?p=44&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Portland Couple Has Refused to Pay Taxes for 30 Years to Protest ...</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-14:/commentary/3418206</id>
    <updated>2008-04-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>AlterNet.org </name>
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H.R.1921 Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill The bill is to create a fund allowing conscientious objectors ,for religious or moral grounds,to pay thier full tax liability into a fund dedicated to non military spending. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/82447/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>The Tax Man&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s Gone Belligerent - The Seminal :: Independent Media ...</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-06:/commentary/3418205</id>
    <updated>2008-04-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics </name>
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The Religious Peace Tax Fund Act (HR 1921 in the 110th Congress), should it become law, would create a federally administered fund to receive the taxes of conscientious objectors to war. Before the word &#226;&#8364;&#339;religious&#226;&#8364;* throws anyone into a ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theseminal.com/2008/04/08/the-tax-mans-gone-belligerent/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>January/February 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-05:/commentary/2016804</id>
    <updated>2008-04-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Catholic Worker Digest </name>
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Also describes HR 1921, the Freedom of Religion Peace Tax Fund, which would make redirection of taxes by conscientious objectors to war legal. The Bishop &amp;amp; the Dam by Matt Vogel - Continuing coverage of the ongoing efforts of Bishop ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catholicworkerdigest.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/januaryfebruary-2008/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>impeach bush and cheney, march 1, 2008...hot button impeachment ...</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-29:/commentary/3156979</id>
    <updated>2008-02-29T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Court Of Impeachment And War Crimes </name>
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on april 18, 2007 representative john lewis (ga05) reintroduced the religious freedom peace tax fund bill (hr 1921) &lt;http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:hr01921:&gt; in the 110th congress. this legislation establishes a ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://courtofimpeachmentandwarcrimes.blogspot.com/2008/03/impeach-bush-and-cheney-march-1-2008hot.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>TEXAS FOCUS: Alternative Energy, Rick Noriega for Senate, Groups ...</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-21:/commentary/1654576</id>
    <updated>2008-02-21T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Mole&amp;#39;s Progressive Democrat </name>
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He is currently working on HR 1921 - Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - a bill that would extend one&amp;#39;s CO status to the taxes one pays and their use. Doug Zachary was raised in Buckner Baptist Home in Dallas, joined the Marines in ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://moleprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/02/texas-focus-alternative-energy-rick_23.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Fundraiser Benefitting Iraq Veterans Against War</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-13:/commentary/1650021</id>
    <updated>2008-02-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Member Posts </name>
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He is currently working on HR 1921 - Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - a bill that would extend one&amp;#39;s CO status to the taxes one pays and their use. Doug Zachary was raised in Buckner Baptist Home in Dallas, joined the Marines in ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/elizabethberry/Cvml&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund (HR 1921)</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-01-06:/commentary/1477360</id>
    <updated>2008-01-06T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>a catholic democrat from ohio </name>
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Recently the gentleman, who queried me on an earlier question, has given me another: whether I have an opinion on the following matter &#226;&#8364;&#8226; John Lewis has reintroduced the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill (HR 1921) in the 110th ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://catholicdemocratfromohio.blogspot.com/2008/01/religious-freedom-peace-tax-fund-hr.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>local stuffs</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-07:/commentary/1477361</id>
    <updated>2007-12-07T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>local stuffs list </name>
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the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund bill (HR 1921) increasingly see ourselves working in the light of international covenants that guarantee the human right to freedom of conscience and belief. We realize that our ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://greenwom.blogspot.com/2007/12/local-stuffs_08.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>how not to pay for a 1.6 trillion dollar war</title>
    <link href="http://iamramey.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-not-to-pay-for-16-trillion-dollar.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-13:/commentary/3156976</id>
    <updated>2007-11-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Ibrahim Abdil-Mu&amp;#39;id Ramey - Voice of Reason </name>
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representative john lewis (d-ga), an honored hero of the civil rights movement in the 1960's, is the principle sponsor of the religious freedom peace tax fund bill (hr 1921) before the house of representatives that would make the fund a ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iamramey.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-not-to-pay-for-16-trillion-dollar.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Firedoglake &#194;&#187; Blackwater: Are You Scared Yet?</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-09-26:/commentary/3418207</id>
    <updated>2007-09-26T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Firedoglake </name>
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Now our work won&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t have to be limited to ending the occupation of Iraq, preventing the invasion/bombing of Iran, and encouraging support for H.R. 1921, the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Bill. Now we&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll have to be active against ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/27/blackwater-are-you-scared-yet/&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act</title>
    <link href="http://expatowl.blogspot.com/2007/08/religious-freedom-peace-tax-fund-act.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-08-18:/commentary/1002193</id>
    <updated>2007-08-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Expatriate Owl </name>
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On 18 April 2007, the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act [HR 1921] was introduced in the House of Representatives and referred to the Ways &amp;amp; Means Committee, where it remains as of this writing. The bill purports &amp;quot;[t]o affirm the ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://expatowl.blogspot.com/2007/08/religious-freedom-peace-tax-fund-act.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>bill lets taxpayers opt out of war funding</title>
    <link href="http://drexxell.blogspot.com/2007/08/bill-lets-taxpayers-opt-out-of-war.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-31:/commentary/3156978</id>
    <updated>2007-07-31T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Trifles and Tribulations </name>
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the lewis bill, hr 1921, which has 22 co-sponsors and was referred to the house ways and means committee, has not been scheduled for a hearing and is not likely to pass. the velazquez bill, which has 30 co-sponsors, including lewis, ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://drexxell.blogspot.com/2007/08/bill-lets-taxpayers-opt-out-of-war.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund</title>
    <link href="http://somebodyshould.blogspot.com/2007/07/religious-freedom-peace-tax-fund.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-30:/commentary/925322</id>
    <updated>2007-07-30T20:00:00Z</updated>
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      <name>Political &amp;amp; Societal Ramblings </name>
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HR 1921 would allow those who oppose war to appropriate their taxes to non-military spending. The government would have to appropriate all taxes designated for the Peace Fund to non-military spending. The problem is that this bill could ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://somebodyshould.blogspot.com/2007/07/religious-freedom-peace-tax-fund.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Could a New Federal Law Allow You to Choose to Fund Only Peaceful ...</title>
    <link href="http://www.ctj.org/blog/2007/07/could-new-federal-law-allow-you-to.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-04:/commentary/810832</id>
    <updated>2007-07-04T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Talking Taxes </name>
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The bill, HR 1921, the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act, is sponsored by Congressman John Lewis, a great progressive hero and someone who knows a thing or two about acting on conscience. It would allow you to indicate on your tax ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ctj.org/blog/2007/07/could-new-federal-law-allow-you-to.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>disarming america</title>
    <link href="http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/2007/06/disarming_ameri.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-18:/commentary/3156977</id>
    <updated>2007-06-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>The Cool Blue Blog </name>
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hr 1921, titled the religious freedom peace tax fund act, instructs the secretary of the treasury to establish a separate &quot;religious freedom peace tax fund&quot; for the deposit of income, gift and estate taxes from citizens certified by the ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/2007/06/disarming_ameri.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>in congress and mn state congress this week</title>
    <link href="http://pearlsoul.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-congress-and-mn-state-congress-this.html" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-26:/commentary/3156980</id>
    <updated>2007-04-26T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Pearl </name>
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hr 1921, which would establish a peace tax fund. in minnesota, bills to support the arts -- senate file 6 and house file 2285. you can take action at the minnesota citizens for the arts site. senator dodd of connecticut introduced the ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pearlsoul.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-congress-and-mn-state-congress-this.html&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Action: Introduced: HR 1921: To affirm the religious freedom ...</title>
    <link href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1921" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-16:/commentary/2987388</id>
    <updated>2007-04-16T20:00:00Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Active Legislation -- Monitored by GovTrack.us </name>
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John Lewis [D-GA] introduced HR 1921: To affirm the religious freedom of taxpayers who are conscientiously opposed to participation in war, to provide that the income, estate, or gift tax payments of such taxpayers be used for ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1921&quot;&gt;Go to article&lt;/a&gt;    </content>
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