Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R, WI-5]

Voice of the People, Jun. 03

2012-06-03T03:17:57Z

This is in response to "Ethanol leaves consumers stranded" (Perspective, May 24), by Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, vice chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. The opinion piece on ethanol rightly points out that ...

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Ron Kind: It’s never too late honor our nation’s heroes

2012-06-03T01:37:44Z

Together with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., I offered legislation, which was recently passed by the House of Representatives, to award Cushing, posthumously, the Medal of Honor, our nation’s highest honor. Each year on Memorial Day, we honor our fallen

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Is ethanol now the “biofuels Solyndra?”

2012-06-02T20:58:33Z

The major problems of the pending E-15 approval were pointed out this week by Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner. Ready or not, here it comes. At least that is the message from the ethanol lobby about E15, gasoline with 15 percent ethanol.

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Never Too Late to Honor our Nation’s Heroes

2012-06-01T13:43:05Z

Together with Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), I offered legislation, which was recently passed by the House of Representatives, to award, posthumously, our nation’s highest honor to Lt. Cushing: the Congressional Medal of Honor. Ever year on ...

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Congressman Sensenbrenner pushes to prohibit funds for Motorcycle-Only Checkpoints

2012-05-31T18:30:36Z

U.S. Representative from Wisconsin Jim Sensenbrenner is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign a letter addressed to the leadership of the House-Senate Surface Transportation Reauthorization Conference Committee to include H.R. 904 in

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Congress Looking Happy to Reauthorize Broad, Secret Spying Powers

2012-05-31T14:27:13Z

“Foreign terrorists remain committed to the destruction of our country,” said Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin), the committee’s chairman. “We have a duty to ensure the intelligence community can gather the intelligence it needs to ...

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Check Before You Reply (All)

2012-05-31T01:00:00Z

...world of the Capitol Hill listserv: the “Reply All Edition.” On Tuesday morning, an email went out from Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s office to the GOP legislative directors’ listserv. “We have an opening for [a legislative assistant] pos

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Your Views

2012-05-27T18:56:49Z

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner reiterated his rejection of climate science at the Heartland Institute conference in Chicago on Tuesday. Most conservatives share Sensenbrenner's disregard for apocalyptic visions of climate change. The reason is that ...

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Forward vs. Backward: SpaceX vs. Heartland

2012-05-26T11:55:40Z

At the forefront of today's Republican party are science deniers -- hence, even as self-respecting corporations were pulling their funding from the Heartland Institute, its conference was being addressed by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who regaled ...

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The Self-Inflicted Downfall Of The Heartland Institute

2012-05-24T16:08:35Z

Wisconsin Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, the featured keynote speaker for Tuesday, asked if we “need to put catalytic converters on our noses” by addressing heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. And following Sensenbrenner’s ...

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Heartland Institute in Financial Crisis After Billboard Controversy

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...a time, and brought in relatively few outside speakers. And the only member of Congress to attend this year, conservative Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), used his speech to criticize Heartland for the billboard. "We can continue to win these debates ou

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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner: Ethanol leaves consumers stranded

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...to energy to produce 1.0 BTU of ethanol is old, outdated work that has been proven over and over to be totally false. This was a report published by a professor that was totally funded by Big Oil. The real numbers are 1.8 BTU of ethanol for 1.0 BTU of e

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Ethanol leaves consumers stranded

2012-05-23T21:31:53Z

Ready or not, here it comes. At least that is the message from the ethanol lobby about E15, gasoline with 15 percent ethanol. Ethanol producers are in the process of clearing the final requirements to increase the amount of ethanol in our gas ...

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Bird-flu research: The biosecurity oversight

2012-05-23T09:28:54Z

But by this point, the spat had started to attract the attention of law-makers. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (Republican, Wisconsin) wrote letters to the NIH and to the White House asking how decisions about the research were reached. People within the ..

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Lord Monckton delights Heartland conference with birther antics

2012-05-23T01:00:00Z

A version of this article originally appeared on Climate Progress. With the Heartland Institute suffering from a public relations disaster that caused 11 donors to abandon financial support, one might think the organization would attempt to moderate mess

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Heartland Institute Adviser: "The People That Warm Spells Kill Are Already Moribund"

2012-05-22T19:31:23Z

"And I think we have discovered who our real friends are." Now even those friends are upset with Heartland. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the conservative Republican from Wisconsin who was the only US politician to attend this year's conference ...

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U.S. Rep. Sensenbrenner: Keynote address at the Heartland Institute International Conference on Climate Change

2012-05-22T13:33:28Z

Chicago, IL— The following is the full text, as prepared for delivery, of Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner’s (R-WI) address to the Heartland Institute’s 7th International Conference on Climate Change. Congressman Sensenbrenner, the Vice Chair of the ...

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Morning Energy: Jaczko departure

2012-05-22T10:20:12Z

Martinson: http://politico.pro/JC7l2U SENSENBRENNER HITS HEARTLAND OVER BILLBOARDS: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) will address the Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago this morning, when he plans to once again ...

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Sensenbrenner: ‘CO2 Is A Natural Gas. Does This Mean That All Of Us Need To Put Catalytic Converters On Our Noses?’

2012-05-22T01:00:00Z

...at the Heartland Institute’s climate denial conference in Chicago this afternoon, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) said that labeling heat-trapping carbon dioxide a pollutant is “propaganda.” Sensenbrenner is a long-time climate disinformer wh

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Violence Against Women Act reauthorization puts lawmakers at odds

2012-05-21T10:21:23Z

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, pointed out this week that the 2005 reauthorization was approved by the House of Representatives on a 414-5 vote. But that measure expired last year, and a new reauthorization effort has become ...

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