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  • 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:

    Bush and Cheney and others are guilty of impeachable offenses. Why are not more members of Congress speaking out about the lies, the public admissions of permitting torture, the subversion of our Constitution?

    Asked by: apr from Milwaukee, WI. Received 28 Votes.
    Categories: President Bush. Tags: constitution · iraq war · torture.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

    Number one, they’re bad enough that it’s not worth wasting our time impeaching them and if we were to have impeached them we should have done it five years ago.  To do it at the end of their term would be that we would get nothing else done and it wouldn’t mean anything. We impeached them through these reports like in the intelligence community phase I; phase II.  I mean everything that comes out, this morning’s papers, the political appointment of lawyers in the justice department. I mean they are impeached, just not legally.

    Answered on Jun 24th, 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 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

  • Question:

    What will you do to limit the powers of the presidency to those described in the Constitution? In other words, how will you uphold the oath of office concerning defense of the Constitution when it comes to limits on presidential power?

    Asked by: Josie Tolton from Richmond, IN. Received 68 Votes.
    Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Ethics · Homeland Security · President Bush. Tags: balance of powers · constitution · imperial presidency · presidency · president.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)

    I used to be for six years the chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution, so it’s something that I take very seriously. Probably one particular area that Congress should always focus attention on is that the presidency, the executive branch, doesn’t overstep its bounds. The War Power Act is something that was passed some years ago to make sure that when a president is going to commit our troops militarily, overseas, that Congress has a role to play.

    Answered on Mar 13th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    The country was founded & directed by the constitution.The constitution was aimed at freedom of the people of government intrusion by police, military, and other agencies.How are we straying from this and is "big brother " here?

    Asked by: Jeff Gearding from Newport, KY. Received 3 Votes.
    Categories: Civil Liberties · Homeland Security · Judiciary · President Bush. Tags: The people - constitution.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

    Well I don't think that Big Brother is here in the sense that we are still able to protect people's civil liberties. However, I will say that under the Bush administration there has been an effort by the president and others to erode those civil liberties to really blur the line. We've seen this with the electronic surveillance program where they want to take the judiciary out of the process. Our system is premised on having some independent body stand between the powers of the federal government, the police powers, and the individual citizen.

    Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More

  • Question:

    Congress is charged with oversight of the Executive Branch. How does the Bush Administration compare with other administrations when it comes to providing information to Congress?

    Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 1 Vote.
    Categories: Ethics · President Bush. Tags: Bush · Congress · oversight · White House.
    Answer:

    Listen to: U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)

    I think the Bush Administration has been more secretive than any administration in history – even more than the Nixon Administration. They set up road blocks even before September eleventh 2001 to try to keep their operations away from the Congress and the American people, which I think is a serious mistake.

    Answered on Nov 6th, 2007 More

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