Posts Tagged ‘eleanor holmes norton’

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Spencer Bachus and the seventeen socialists

April 11th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Spencer Bachus recently commented that he thought Obama was getting pushed too far to the left by some members of Congress: But he said he is worried that he is being steered too far by the Congress: “Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists.” Asked to clarify his comments [...]

DC voting rights act

February 27th, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate passed the DC Voting Rights Act.  In order to get it passed, they gave an additional seat to Utah.  Senator Joe Liberman was quite thrilled, as was Eleanor Holmes Norton.  However, from a fiscally conervative standpoint, this is screwed up. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year [...]