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    HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More

    Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

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    Given the fact that in the Spring (& now Winter) Primaries and Caucuses is the ONLY time we get have a say in who we want for US President (the General election in November is to vote for the Electoral College, not the candidate), When do you think the American Voters will Finally get to Vote for a U.S President? More

    Asked 6 weeks 5 days ago of All U.S. Congress
    by Lee Derr from Fort Worth, TX

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    If I go into a coma and am put on life support, with no living immediate family and no one with medical directive authority, who decides if I live or die? More

    Asked 5 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Anna Gardiner from Falls Church, VA

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    If I go into a coma and am put on life support, with no living immediate family and no one with medical directive authority, who decides if I live or die? More

    Asked 5 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Anna Gardiner from Falls Church, VA

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    Given the fact that in the Spring (& now Winter) Primaries and Caucuses is the ONLY time we get have a say in who we want for US President (the General election in November is to vote for the Electoral College, not the candidate), When do you think the American Voters will Finally get to Vote for a U.S President? More

    Asked 6 weeks 5 days ago of All U.S. Congress
    by Lee Derr from Fort Worth, TX

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    HHS is redefining abortion as any method which prevents or deters contraception as well as aborting a fetus. Considering the financial implication on social services, medical ramifications including STD’s, and population growth, what is your stand on this? More

    Asked 9 weeks 5 days ago of U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA)
    by Dreama Terrill from Richmond, VA

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  • Question:

    An in employer in N.Y.C. owes me $610.00. Can I stand in front of their shop on the sidewalk and hand out flyers to let the public know what they did to me, without being arrested?

    Asked by: Richard Krell from New York, NY. Received 16 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Consumer. Tags: Dishonest employer · useless court system.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)

    Well I would think that as long as you are on a public sidewalk that you can do that, just as if someone was striking and they march around with a sign and keep moving. There are certain rules that you can’t just sit in front and block the doorway. But if you are moving and not obstructing anything in that regards. And you have a sign in front of you, as long as you are moving that is freedom of speech and I would think he has a right to do that.” Reporter: You think there might be a better way to get his money back?

    Answered on Sep 19th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Who authorized the departure of Saudi Nationals (including the Bin Laden family) when the U.S. airspace was otherwise closed?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 17 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Homeland Security · Money & Politics · President Bush · Terrorism · Transportation. Tags: 9/11/2001 · Bin Laden · terrorism.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)

    I don’t know the answer to that. I was not in Congress at the time that that happened and I don’t know that anybody did. I don’t know how to answer that question.

    Answered on Aug 7th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Before his execution, Saddam Hussein was doing a lot of writing. What ever became of those manuscripts? When will the translated text be provided to the American people?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 9 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Defense · Foreign Policy · Iraq · President Bush. Tags: conspicuous in absence.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

    That's a great question. I don't know the answer but I'd like to find out myself. That's a great question. The thing is he may have just been spewing poison and bitterness but it would be interesting to know what he had to say. If he had any remorse for all the people that had been killed and raped and maimed and tortured on his watch. But that would be a good question and I'll try to find that out. That's a good question.

    Answered on Aug 6th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    The Florida primary was moved forward as part of a referendum to standardize on optical scan voting machines. Would you care to comment on how that referendum happened to change the date of the Florida primary... and disenfranchise the Florida voters?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 14 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Technology. Tags: cover-up · florida primary · Voting machines.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL)

    Well, first I don’t think it was just that referendum caused the change. I believe the state legislature on the House side or the Speaker of the House proffered a motion that came over to the Senate, and the Democrats in the Senate wanted a paper trail measure added to it with reference to the change of the date. So the change of the date took place inside the legislature with the Governor’s approval and not on a state-wide referendum.

    Answered on Jun 30th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Can you confirm that U.S. policy in Iraq prohibits Iraqi farmers from replanting their traditional seeds in lieu of patented seeds from the west? In fact making saving seeds illegal. If so, do you think this is good policy, and why?

    Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 29 Votes.
    Categories: Agriculture · Civil Liberties · Environment · Foreign Policy · Iraq · President Bush · Regulation · Rural · Technology. Tags: biodiversity · genetically modified organisms · intellectual property.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)

    They produce a lot of potatoes over there, I know that. There is very little their soil is actually conducive for agriculture. They do have some irrigated ground down in the south around Basra but, you know, most of that was drained or flooded by Saddam Hussein. I don’t know if they’ve ever gotten that infrastructure back yet. Not a whole lot of agriculture takes place in Iraq. There’s a lot of desert there, so they don’t have the water infrastructure either, is the problem. I mean I couldn’t…I’m just not sure.

    Answered on Jun 19th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Do you agree that liberties are being lost due to a predilection for secrecy, excessive police power and withholding information to avoid embarrassment, exposure of malfeasance or incompetence? Do we need to drastically diminish presidential power in favor of an open government in order to restore and maintain our freedom?

    Asked by: gary knott from Silver Spring, MD. Received 29 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties. Tags: liberty.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)

    Yeah, I do think there is a great degree of unwarranted and unconstitutional secrecy in the dealing with the executive branch over the last 7 years and I think that was allowed to occur because the Congress basically shirked its role as a coequal branch of government and became a rubber stamp for the executive branch and so the system did not work but during the past year after the Democrats have taken control there has been whole lot more of oversight, hearings and investigations into various processes and functions of the executive branch and what we have been met with in many cases

    Answered on Jun 18th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Why doesn't the District of Columbia have "lawmakers" as defined on this website? I ask all the "lawmakers" and candidates if they support the bill that just barely missed being passed in this session to permit DC's delegate to vote in the House.

    Asked by: STS from Washington, DC. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Civil Liberties. Tags: taxation without representation.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)

    I have always been for voting rights for the DC delegate. As a matter of fact, if it were up to me, there would be the appropriate numbers of members of the House and two Senators. There are states that are smaller than the District and have that kind of representation. A lot of excuses have been made for why we can’t do it or should not do it. Some of them based on the Constitution. Others, I think based on the fear that if we were to have, say, two democratic Senators and a democratic House member, they would be in fact Democrats, as opposed to Republicans.

    Answered on May 21st, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Do you regret voting to authorize the Patriot Act? As a Democrat, how do you justify having voted that way?

    Asked by: Misty Fowler from Salt Lake City, UT. Received 34 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Homeland Security · President Bush. Tags: Patriot Act.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson (D-UT)

    Well, the questioner is incorrect. I actually voted against extending the PA. On the initial vote right which was after 9/11, yes, I voted along with almost every Democrat and Republican in Congress to create the Patriot Act which had a limited term to it. When that term was expiring and it came up to be extended, I voted ‘no,’ because I didn’t think it was appropriate to extend it permanently. So that’s how I treated that issue. I think it was important for us as an institution to keep some time frames or some limitations on how that Act could be implemented.

    Answered on Mar 17th, 2008 More

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