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Rep. Jesse Jackson

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Term Start Term End Role    State  Party 
2007 2008 Representative IL Democrat
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Recent Voting History

The votes below were taken by roll call, a voting procedure that records a vote from every Senator or Representative on the bill under consideration. This Member of Congress may have voted on other bills by the process known as "voice vote", but these votes are not recorded.
BillVoted
H.R.2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment With Amendment No. 3: H R 2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
Aye
May 15, 2008
H.R.2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment With Amendment No. 2: H R 2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
Aye
May 15, 2008
H.R.2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008
On Agreeing to the Senate Amendment With Amendment No. 1: H R 2642 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
Nay
May 15, 2008

Voting Trends Analysis

The information below is an initial analysis of voting trends for this Member of Congress, calculated by cross-referencing all of this member's votes from the current 110th Congress (Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2009). The results are intended to offer some helpful context for the place that this Member of Congress occupies in the Congressional landscape. In the next steps of site development, OpenCongress will incorporate more detailed analyses of voting trends to give you a comprehensive snapshot of every Member of Congress.

Jesse Jackson in the News feed

May 16, 2008 Searching for a pro-gay black church in DC

... out that error in their ways have been such African-American leaders as Jesse Jackson, the late Coretta Scott King, NAACP Chair Julian Bond and Rep. ...

Source: Washington Blade, DC
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May 15, 2008 Obama may speak in STL at labor convention next week as black ...

Jesse Jackson, US Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and US Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who all will speak during the Saturday, May 24 session. ...

Source: St. Louis American, MO
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May 15, 2008 House fails to pass war funding measure

screamed Rep .Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) on the House floor. The House did approve two other war-related measures, one that included non-binding language to ...

Source: Politico, DC
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Jesse Jackson in the Blogs feed

May 16, 2008 Jesse Jackson Wants To See Secret Service Files

... it "certainly wouldn't be a great loss and probably wouldn't be an accident either." "This e-mail today tells me I have a lot less confidence in the secret Service than I did before it was exposed," said US Rep Jesse Jackson

Source: AFRICAN ASCENSION WORLD BLOG
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May 16, 2008 In the South, a Force to Challenge the GOP

Jesse Jackson, said of Mr. Obama, “He’s generated a tremendous force in American political culture outside the electoral system.” Still, it would take a shift in the electoral dynamic — a substantial stumble by John McCain, ...

Source: Dawn Crawford vs San Bernardino's Dirty...
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May 16, 2008 Obama is DESTROYING RACE RELATIONS and IT IS BY DESIGN!

Kelvin Buck, a black state representative who helped the Childers campaign, said he saw a “level of enthusiasm and energy” that he had not seen before from black voters — significantly motivated, he said, by a recent Republican ...

Source: Desert Conservative
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Campaign Contributions

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Top Funding Industry: Lawyers & Lobbyists
Top Contributor: Plumbers/Pipefitters Union ($10,000)
IndustryDonation% of total
Lawyers & Lobbyists $74,557 18.1 %
Misc Business $67,000 16.2 %
Labor $66,400 16.1 %
Health $63,850 15.5 %
Finance/Insur/RealEst $58,200 14.1 %
Other $30,800 7.5 %
Construction $14,262 3.5 %
Energy/Nat Resource $10,500 2.5 %
Agribusiness $9,250 2.2 %
Communic/Electronics $8,500 2.1 %
Transportation $5,000 1.2 %
Ideology/Single-Issue $3,000 0.7 %
Defense $1,000 0.2 %
Total:$412,319

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