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President Obama urges Congress to take action to avoid the automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit next Friday if lawmakers fail to find a path forward on balanced deficit reduction.
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Ask Republicans to Watch: the PSA against dating violence … VAWA
1 is 2 many PSA <- Please … Click on the link
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden join with Eli Manning, Jeremy Lin, Jimmy Rollins, Evan Longoria, David Beckham, Joe Torre and Andy Katz in this PSA to raise awareness about dating violence.
Despite the significant progress made in reducing violence against women, young women continue to face the highest rates of dating violence and sexual assault. In the last year, one in 10 teens has reported being physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend.
One in five young women has been sexually assaulted while in college.
In response to these alarming statistics, Vice President Biden launched the 1 is 2 many campaign last year.
This campaign focuses his longstanding commitment to reducing violence against women specifically on teens and young women ages 16-24.
By targeting the importance of changing attitudes that lead to violence, and educating the public on the realities of abuse, this Administration is leading the way to stop violence against women …More
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The NRA Is On Thin Ice, And Here’s How You Can Tell
2013 or 1966?
The GOP’s Back to the Future Budget
Last week, the GOP once again proposed a plan to cap overall federal spending as percentage of the economy at a ridiculous and unsustainably low level. This is really just a backdoor way to gut programs like Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid without saying so at the outset.
How low do Republicans want to set spending? As low as it was way back in 1966. In 1966, President Johnson was arguing we needed to stay in Vietnam. There were still countries called Upper Volta and Rhodesia. The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California. Medicare and Medicaid had only existed for one year.
In other words, it was a very different time and our country had very different needs. Here’s a closer look at just how different things are why the GOP’s back to the future isn’t suited for 21st century America.
Evening Brief: Important Stories That You Might’ve Missed
New NRA ad envisions war between defenseless middle class and drug lords with high-capacity magazines.
What today’s meteors tell us about the budget.
The NRA plans a blizzard of lawsuits to lock in pro-gun decisions while Republicans control the courts.
Transvaginal probes are back.
Facebook paid no corporate income taxes last year, despite making more than $1 BILLION in profits.
The two biggest lies in the NRA’s top lobbyist’s response to the State of the Union.
Sen. McCain says he’s opposing Chuck Hagel because Hagel was mean to President Bush.
Raising the minimum wage: a no-lose issue for Democrats.
Rubio and the zombies.
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Keep Frankenfish Out of Our Food Chain …
The FDA is moving toward approving genetically-engineered fish for human consumption. Please help us ensure our native fish populations are protected! Take Action Today!
Earthjustice, Protect Northwest Orcas Campaign
What do you think would happen if our precious and vulnerable native salmon came face-to-face with fast-growing, genetically-engineered salmon? Not sure? Unfortunately, you’re not the only one.
During the holidays, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) took a controversial step toward approving the first-ever genetically-engineered fish made for human consumption. These fish are the spawn of a company called AquaBounty Technologies and are engineered in foreign laboratories to grow twice as fast as natural Atlantic salmon.
And if that’s not scary enough, the FDA isn’t planning on thoroughly studying all the environmental risks presented by these Frankenfish before giving the green light to AquaBounty. This means these Frankenfish will be produced on a commercial scale before anyone knows what damaging impacts they may have if they invade our most sensitive natural marine environments. The FDA wants to be able to save these crucial questions for a later time, but we think the questions need to need to be answered now, before it’s too late.
We have until April 26, 2013 to submit comments. Please help us ensure our native fish populations are protected!
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