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bottom up change » Blog Archive » Featured Change Agent: The ...
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Food Safety bills need your attention « The Dancing Farmer
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OpenCongress: Noose Hate Crime Act of 2009
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide penalties for displaying nooses in public with intent to harass or intimidate a person because of that person's race, color, religion, or national origin.
Added 4 months ago - Tagged with hate crimes - Jena Six -
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OpenCongress: H.R.623 - To provide for greater judicial discretion in sentencing for certain firearms offenses committed in exceptional circumstances.
`(C) The minimum sentencing requirements of subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply if-- `(i) the person who used, carried, or possessed the firearm was authorized to carry that type of firearm in the lawful performance of an employment duty; `(ii) the offense under this paragraph occurred during or in relation to such employment; and `(iii) the crime during and in relation to which the offense under this paragraph occurred is a crime of violence.'.
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The Washington Independent; Congress Dems Prepare to Defer to Obama
The message was clear: Despite Congress’s many objections to the Bush administration’s handling of the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), lawmakers — at least Democrats — are professing their faith that President-elect Barack Obama will spend the money more wisely and transparently than his predecessor. Trust, under this arrangement, has replaced the desire to legislate.
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