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Tomorrow, the Senate will decide whether or not the DREAM Act will move forward. President Obama said that it’s time for Congress to act and he supports the legislation[1] . This is the most critical moment in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform to this point. Passing the DREAM Act this week will be a sign that Congress is serious about fixing our broken system once and for all. And we need to do everything we can to make sure that happens. You have already sent a fax to your Senators, asking them to support the DREAM Act, but now, they need to hear from you personally! Click here to call Congress and say YES to DREAMs. As you read this, our opposition is flooding Congress with calls in their attempt to block any legislation that might benefit immigrants. We have to be sure that our voices are louder than theirs. We have to be sure that Congress hears from those of us who stand on the side of justice for ALL. The DREAM Act will allow students who are undocumented to attend college or join the military. That’s why it’s an amendment to the defense reauthorization bill – giving young people the chance to serve. But there are still senators who need to hear from us. Click here to call the Senate to pass the DREAM Act as a step toward comprehensive reform. We’re closer than ever to getting the comprehensive reform we need, but it won’t happen without doing everything we can. Thank you, P.S. – And don’t forget to have your friends call in to Congress (English: 866-996-5161 or Spanish: 866-961-4293) to demand reform, tweet it, and share it on Facebook! We need to make sure every Senator hears from us before tomorrow’s vote! [1]Remarks of President Obama at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Dinner
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Congress back in Session 9/20/10
The Senate Convenes: 2:00pmET September 20, 2010
Following any Leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 3:00pm with senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each
At 3:00pm, the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S.3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. There will be no roll call votes during Monday’s session of the Senate.
Unanimous Consent:
S.624, the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act, with a Durbin amendment
H.R.4505, an Act to enable State homes to furnish nursing home care to parents any of whose children died while serving in the Armed Forces
S.Res.630, a resolution designating November 28, 2010 as “Drive Safer Sunday”
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The next meeting in the House is scheduled for 2:30pmET on September 20, 2010
CURRENT HOUSE FLOOR PROCEEDINGS
LEGISLATIVE DAY OF SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
111TH CONGRESS – SECOND SESSION
2:35 P.M. –
The House adjourned. The next meeting is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on September 22, 2010.
On motion to adjourn Agreed to by voice vote.
Mr. Hinojosa moved that the House do now adjourn.
2:33 P.M. –
Mr. Hinojosa asked unanimous consent That the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Price) may be recognized only on the legislative day of Thursday, September 23, 2010, to offer the resolution that he noticed on Thursday, September 16, 2010, without further notice under clause 2(a)(1) of rule 9. Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Hinojosa asked unanimous consent That when the House adjourns on Monday, September 20, 2010, it adjourn to meet at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Agreed to without objection.
2:32 P.M. –
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – The Chair designated Mr. Hinojosa to lead the Members in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
The Speaker announced approval of the Journal. Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Journal stands approved.
2:31 P.M. –
Today’s prayer was offered by the House Chaplain, Rev. Daniel Coughlin.
2:30 P.M. –
The Speaker designated the Honorable Donna F. Edwards to act as Speaker pro tempore for today.
The House convened, starting a new legislative day
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Racists make good TV
Have you watched cable news lately? The Tea Baggers are everywhere!
The Tea Party is news because they’ve won a few upset primaries — but let’s be honest — that’s not the only reason they’re getting wall-to-wall coverage. Honestly, that weirdly racist tinge makes for good TV. Bizarre, wide-eyed accusations of the President and hilariously misspelled signs demanding an English-only country will drive up news ratings. I don’t mind, though. People should know about these extremists.
But the best-kept secret of 2010 is that progressives have won primaries up and down the ballot all across the country — way more than Tea Party. That’s right — Progressive challengers have beat out fabled “Mama Grizzlies” in state after state.
Just this week, progressive champion Ann McLane Kuster won a landslide victory in New Hampshire. Earlier this year, progressives won big upset victories in Pennsylvania with Joe Sestak, in North Carolina with Elaine Marshall and in Kentucky with Jack Conway — and that’s just in U.S. Senate races.
But DFA doesn’t just support Senate candidates. We support progressives up and down the ballot in all 50 states. In fact, 67 percent of all DFA-endorsed candidates won their primaries this year. 67 percent! That’s a great record and we couldn’t do it without you. We depend on small contributions from DFA members to make it happen.
Contribute $10 right now and keep beating the Tea Party this November.
With the 2010 Democratic primaries over, just take a look at the work we did together this season:
- 43 primary endorsements
- 15 federal
- 28 non-federal
- 67.4 percent of endorsed candidates won their primaries
- 60 percent of federal candidates won
- 71.4 percent of non-federal candidates won
We didn’t just endorse candidates who we were sure-things or had big names, either. We endorsed local candidates like Toni Preckwinkle in Chicago. She was a reformer running against a corrupt incumbent for Cook County Board President. It was a tough fight, but she ran a grassroots campaign and scored a landslide win in the primary.
We endorsed winning candidates in tough primaries in Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and a whole lot of other states. That’s the DFA strategy at work — electing progressive in primaries across the country to take our country back with people-powered campaigns.
Can’t get enough? Here’s a few more numbers from 2010 primaries. We endorsed four U.S. Senate candidates, 11 U.S. House candidates, three gubernatorial candidates, four candidates running for other statewide office, 16 candidates for State House or State Senate, and five candidates for county or municipal offices — across 24 states.
That’s 43 candidates total — 29 wins — and we couldn’t done it without you.
Now that the primary season is over, all the focus is on winning in November and finishing the job. We must defeat Tea Party Republicans everywhere and we can’t do it without your support.
Contribute $10 today and beat the Tea Baggers in November.
Come November 3, the only reason the Tea Party should be on TV is for losing a lot of elections.
Working together, we’re going to make that happen. Thanks you for everything you do to move America forward.
-Arshad
Arshad Hasan, Executive Director
Democracy for America
Democracy for America relies on you and the people-power of more than one million members to fund the grassroots organizing and training that delivers progressive change on the issues that matter. Please Contribute Today and support our mission.
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Help end the Bush tax cuts for millionaires
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Sign the petitionThe Republicans are holding middle-class tax cuts hostage because they want to extend the Bush tax giveaways for millionaires. And some Democrats are even agreeing with them!
President Obama has made clear he won’t compromise on this. But with votes coming up in just a few weeks we need to make sure Democrats to the right thing. I just signed a petition telling Democrats to stand with Obama. Can you join me at this link?
http://pol.moveon.org/bushtaxcuts/?r_by=-17809870-RwljJsx&rc=confemail
Thanks!
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Bush Still Takes Brunt of Blame for Economy vs. Obama
Obama sees more blame now than a year ago, but 51% assign him little to no blame
Gallup Poll
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ — Nearly two years into his presidency, 51% of Americans say President Barack Obama bears little to no blame for U.S. economic problems, while 48% assign him a great deal or moderate amount of blame. More Americans now blame Obama than did so a year ago, but a substantially higher percentage, 71%, blame former President George W. Bush.
More specifically, the Aug. 27-30 USA Today/Gallup poll finds 24% of Americans blaming Obama a great deal for the current economic problems, 24% a moderate amount, 25% not much, and 26% not at all. By contrast, 37% blame Bush a great deal, compared with 10% assigning him no blame.
Bush fares poorly on this measure partly because a relatively high proportion of Republicans — 48% — blame him a great deal or moderate amount, as do most Democrats (89%) and independents (73%). By contrast, relatively few Democrats, 19%, blame Obama. These patterns are consistent with Gallup’s findings on the same question in April.
Bottom Line
Americans are far from charitable when it comes to their evaluations of Obama’s performance on the economy. Recent Gallup polling found 38% approving of the job he is doing in this arena — among his worst job scores on the nation’s top issues. However, that still exceeds Bush’s final approval rating on the economy of 27%, measured in February 2008. That was prior to the Wall Street financial crisis that rocked both the economy and consumer confidence later in the year, so Bush’s rating likely fell even further by the time he left office.
Obama’s overall job approval rating was 46% at the time of his latest economic rating, in early August, and continues to hover in the mid- to high 40s in Gallup Daily tracking. The gap between his approval on the economy and his overall approval may be partly explained by Americans’ tendency to believe that the enduring economic problems are at least not of his own making.
Survey MethodsResults for this USA Today/Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 27-30, 2010, with a random sample of 1,021 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using random-digit-dial sampling.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones (for respondents with a landline telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell phone-only). Each sample includes a minimum quota of 150 cell phone-only respondents and 850 landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents for gender within region. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and phone lines. Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2009 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in continental U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
For more details on Gallup’s polling methodology, visit http://www.gallup.com/.
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