2009 CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE (SOCIALIST) CAUCUS ALPHABETICALLY AND BY STATE

http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/

Caucus Member List

Friday February 20, 2009 Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIALIST (PROGRESSIVE) CAUCUS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

Ponder this: I think it is imperative to know who is a member of this organization. We need to be aware of who is driving the socialistic agenda advocated by B. Hussein Obama. Think about it.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus

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MANAGER OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE GETS THREE YEARS FOR HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS

Agriprocessors, Inc. Code of Conduct | Hiring Now! Apply On Line

Ponder this.....This disgusting slaughterhouse has been in trouble with Federal government entities for a long time. Among atrocities committed are:

1. Anti-competitive practices

2. Money laundering

3. Bank fraud

4. Bankruptcy

5. False statements

6. Bad labor relations practices

7. Hiring illegal aliens / Raided by the federal government

8. Forging documents

9. Child labor violations

10.Impersonating a Rabbi critic

11.Animal abuse / Vile practices of the slaughter of animals

12.Kosher beef shortage

13.Denounced by the Governor of Iowa

What I want to know is, WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE STILL IN BUSINESS?????
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INFORMATION ABOUT 'AGRIPROCESSORS' COMPANY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriprocessors

MANAGER OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE GETS THREE YEARS FOR HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS


Friday, March 20, 2009 at 9:32 a.m.

DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- A supervisor arrested after a massive immigration raid at an eastern Iowa kosher slaughterhouse has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his part in hiring illegal immigrants.

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, who worked as a supervisor at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville, will also serve two years of supervised release after prison.

He pleaded guilty last August to one count of conspiracy to hire illegal immigrants and one count of aiding and abetting the hiring of illegal immigrants.

Also in federal court Thursday, a former Agriprocessors human resources clerk, Penny Ann Hanson, of Clermont, pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement on an immigration form and one count of conspiracy.

Hanson faces up to 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Sentencing wasn't immediately scheduled.

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URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT / PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

A message to all members of Citizens in Action

It might be the last time we are allowed (legally) to contact our Representatives and Senators! The House has passed H.R. 1388! Included in this bill is an amendment that takes away our right to contact our representatives, takes away our right to assemble and protest, takes away our right to sign petitions, etc. No more Tea Parties, no marches in DC or other areas!
CONTACT ALL SENATORS TODAY--start with Republicans!
Copy and paste this URL into your browser's address bar--it is a link for all Senators! Please make these very important calls today! (Call or fax--emails are useless).
Urge them to vote AGAINST H.R. 1388! Be sure to mention the amendment taking away our rights!

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

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THIS IS SO FRIGHTENING! THE 'SECOND ANNUAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL SUMMIT' LOCAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Ponder this: The worrisome thought that the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" will be put back into place by B. Hussein Obama's administration is not a far-fetched idea. I would surmise that this socialist group is just one of hundreds across the nation that will be lobbying for talk radio as we know it to disappear and in its place, every station will be, at the very least, a liberal/socialist bastion to keep the dissenters incapacitated.

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PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS BULLETIN WITH RELATED INFORMATION SENT TO ME FROM 'COMMON CAUSE'. THANKS TO THEM, YOU WILL KNOW ABOUT WHAT THE S.C.R.S. IS UP TO THESE DAYS:

FROM COMMON CAUSE: Still wondering what the Second Annual Southern California Regional Summit: Local Media for Social Change is all about?

Watch our video and register for the Summit today!

This half-day summit will take place on March 21, 2009, at Occidental College in Los Angeles and will feature panel discussions and breakout sessions covering community media and social change, online social networking, and citizen journalism on the Internet.

Our keynote speaker will be Dominique DiPrima, radio talk show host of The Front Page on Los Angeles radio station KJLH 102.3-FM.

Our exciting panel will be moderated by political analyst Tanya Acker and include:

Brad Friedman, BradBlog.com
Linda Milazzo, Widely published journalist and teacher
Anthony Samad, Scholar and syndicated columnist for the LA Progressive
Mario Solis-Marich, Host of The Mario Solis-Marich Show on KTLK AM1150

Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and $10 for students (free for Occidental College faculty, students, and staff). A reception will follow the event.

To learn more and register for the event, please visit:

http://www.commoncause.org/MediaSummit

We look forward to seeing you there!


Sincerely,

Jon Bartholomew, Common Cause
Jim Rhyne, LA Media Reform Group
and the rest of the team at California Common Cause

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AN ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE MOVIE! 'BROTHERS AT WAR' / TRAILER CLIP

AP – In this 2008 photo provided by Samuel Goldwyn Films, brothers, from left, Isaac, Jake and Joe Rademacher …

DO NOT MISS THIS FANTASTIC FILM! PLEASE VIEW THESE TRAILER CLIPS AND VIDEOS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6JbcguXBGI

A SEVEN MINUTE CLIP OF THE FILM:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqItxkCGUOM&feature=related


By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Writer Martha Waggoner, Associated Press Writer – Fri Mar 13, 6:58 am ET

RALEIGH, N.C. – Jake Rademacher finally got to go to war.

It wasn't the way he had hoped — his childhood dream to attend West Point was dashed when poor eyesight kept him out. Instead, he followed two younger brothers to Iraq, filming them and their comrades for a film "Brothers at War," that opens this weekend in military towns in North Carolina and Georgia.

"My curiosity was more than intellectual," Jake said. "I had a personal reason to know what my brothers were going through. ... Another filmmaker who hadn't wanted to go to West Point might not have been as interested in going to a war zone.

"Wanting to be a soldier played into my willingness to go to the edge of the fight and be there when the bullets were flying by my camera. ... and bring the audience with me."

The movie intertwines the story of the three brothers and other family members, along with soldiers at war and families at home. The film's inside, personal look at the battlefield and the homefront attracted the attention of actor Gary Sinise, who helped find distribution for the movie and eventually became its executive producer.

"This is a brother who wants to know about his own brothers. That gives it a heart," said Sinise, who last year received the Presidential Citizens Medal. The medal recognizes U.S. citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for the nation. He was recognized for his work with the USO and with a group he co-founded, Operation Iraqi Children.

"You watch this young filmmaker go from somebody who doesn't know what he's getting himself into into someone who learns a helluva lot about his brothers, who gets to know them better than he did before and by doing that, gets to know a lot about himself."

Jake, 33, is the oldest of five brothers and two sisters who grew up in Decatur, Ill. He went to Iraq in 2005 and 2006, before the surge and, over time, embedded with four combat units.

One revealing scene occurs between U.S. snipers as they wait for insurgents to emerge. The two men talk about whether flowers are an appropriate Christmas gift for a girlfriend — one says yes, one says no — and a teddy bear that one bought for his girl, with her name on the front and soccer number on the back.

On his first visit, he was stationed with his brother, now-Maj. Isaac Rademacher. But that assignment, which consisted of hanging out for days with reconnaissance troops near the Syrian border, drew the disdain of his other brother, Staff Sgt. Joe Rademacher, a sniper who didn't think Jake had experienced the realities of war.

Joe so repudiated Jake's experience that he declined to hug Jake when Jake returned from his first trip to Iraq. It's one of the more excruciating scenes in "Brothers at War," when Jake jumps on Joe, and Joe backs away.

So Jake took up his brother's challenge and returned to Iraq, this time to the Sunni Triangle, at one point being shot at as he filmed and narrowly avoiding a roadside bomb that injured two Iraqi officers.

Joe, 23, "felt like I hadn't gone deep enough into the experience," Jake said. "I hadn't been in a sniper hide site ... things so important to his experience. It was a surprise to me that my little brother rejected my experience when I came home."

Isaac supported his brother's endeavor from the start, knowing how badly Jake had wanted to be a soldier.

"It did hurt his ego when I got in" West Point, said Isaac, 32, who recently was promoted to major and now is the operations officer for an armored cavalry squadron at Fort Bragg. "At the same time, he was happy for me. It's got to be hard to watch your younger brother succeed at something you tried to and it just didn't happen."

While he made the movie to teach civilians about war, Jake said soldiers and their families tell him it's helped them as well because it's allowed the troops to open up about their experiences.

The movie "illustrates and captures what it's like to be a soldier in Iraq," Isaac said. "A guy can sit there with his family and point at the screen and say there, that's almost exactly what I did over there. It gives you a start point to open that conversation."

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FROM TOWNHALL.COM / IMMIGRATION ISSUES

	Thursday, March 19, 2009
Section Page | News | Photos
America's "Wretched Refuse" (American Vision) Has Illegal Immigration?s Effect on Education Become the ?Third Rail? of Politics? (Family Security Matters) Rep. Gregg Harper Increases Number of H.R. 997 Co-Sponsors to 106 (U.S. English) Rep. Ken Calvert is Newest Co-Sponsor of H.R. 997 (U.S. English) Georgia Senate Votes to Require Driver's License Exams To Be in English (U.S. English) Legislation to Reduce Government Multilingualism Continues to Gain Support (U.S. English) Missouri House Transportation Committee Votes to Limit License Exams to English (U.S. English) Oklahoma House Approves Official English Legislation (U.S. English)

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THE NEW FCC CHAIRMAN, JULIUS GENACHOWSKI / WILL HE ATTEMPT TO BRING BACK THE 'FAIRNESS DOCTRINE'?

Ponder this.....Julius Genachowski is an old college friend of B. Hussein Obama and worked under Obama who was the Editor of the Harvard Law Review. If you read the biography of Mr. Genachowski, you might surmise that he will attempt to reincarnate the 'Fainess Doctrine', after hearing what Mr. David Axelrod, a top Obama advisor said during an interview with Fox News Channel host, Chris Wallace. Think about it.....

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VIIDEO OF FOX NEWS CHRIS WALLACE INTERVIEWING DAVID AXELROD
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21881735/david_axelrod_on_fns.htm#q=%22Fairness+Doctrine%22

VIDEO OF WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERVIEW:
http://online.wsj.com/video/future-of-the-federal-communications-commission/A560AED1-4D66-4133-B003-DD2EDCBF3B92.html

BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW FCC CHAIRMAN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski

ARTICLE FROM NEWSMAX
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/axelrod_fairness_doctrine/2009/02/16/182359

VIDEO FROM FOX NEWS
http://www.foxnews.com/video-search/m/21862280/fairness_doctrine.htm#q=%22Fairness+Doctrine%22

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RUPERT MURDOCH SPEAKS UP FOR ISRAEL / THIS IS A LONG READ, HOWEVER IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR WE WHO ARE SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL

RUPERT MURDOCH

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237392665709&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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ANN COULTER COLUMN ABOUT RON SILVER WHO RCENTLY PASSED AWAY

ACTOR AND VOCAL ACITIVIST.
RON SILVER.....A REAL WINNER!


By Ann Coulter / Townhall.com

I wish I could ask Ron Silver what he thinks of the AIG bonuses. He'd have some original take -- maybe propose re-opening the bonuses paid to Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick for their yeoman's work running Fannie Mae into the ground and then collecting bonuses of $90 million and $24.7 million, respectively. Or maybe he'd just make a joke. Continued below.....

But I can't ask him anymore because Ron died of a rare esophageal cancer last Sunday.

So now there is one less person in the world who never chooses his positions to feed a pompous ego or to stroke his self-image as a thinking person. There was no point to posturing for Ron: His social standing in Hollywood was revoked the moment he supported Bush and the Iraq War.

Perhaps Ron always spoke his mind, but I didn't know him when he was "brave"; I only knew Ron when he was actually brave.

I've noticed that words like "brave" and "courageous" are mostly used nowadays to mean "left-wing." We're constantly asked to admire the monumental courage of Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Janeane Garofalo and the Dixie Chicks -- sometimes even by other people.

But for my younger readers, what courage traditionally meant was risking the disapprobation of people you know. It was about losing friends, losing work and losing status where you live -- not alienating people you will never meet. Insulting people in Kansas when you live in Los Angeles is not speaking truth to power; it's speaking anything to serve power.

One thing you cannot say about Ron's magnificent speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention is that he did it to go with the flow in Hollywood, to take the path of least resistance, to win easy applause. Ron did lose work, lose friends and lose his entire social apparatus.

Ron didn't say what he said to get any kind of reaction, but because he believed it. He was an intellectual trapped in an actor's body.

Amid the antiques at his beautifully appointed Park Avenue pre-war, there were piles and piles of magazines and newspaper articles on topics ranging from Sunni Muslims to Darwinism. Nearly every room was lined with books, most of them dog-eared.

When I needed to stay with Ron for a few weeks once, he'd get up hours before I did, read all the major newspapers and leave the interesting articles circled at the foot of my bed. Continued...

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