It's Republican congressperson after Republican congressperson putting National Rifle Association money above the lives of Americans.
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And so, for a long time, people were comfortable and didn't need to interact with their congressperson, weren't looking to watch what their congressperson was doing.
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"I have asked congressperson after congressperson, not one can explain to me what's in the bill, even in the House version, certainly not in the other version," Bloomberg said.
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I haven't picked up my phone to call my congressperson.
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They have some congressperson who doesn't know anything about it.
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The average U.S. Congressperson serves only three times as many people.
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Also, contact your congressperson if you want gun control reform now.
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This community had a congressperson that, you know — deep betrayal. Right.
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If she defeats Lewis, Craig will become Minnesota's first LGBTQ congressperson.
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And it's not just your congressperson and senator you can speak to.
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Call your congressperson and tell them that you support funding national parks.
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The ACLU has a script you can use to call your Congressperson.
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Call your Congressperson on Wednesday May 1st and make your demand known.
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They'll find out that their congressperson voted to take away their healthcare.
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One Republican Congressperson, Mike Coffman, asked Pai to delay the vote Wednesday.
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Contact your congressperson above and tell them how you feel about legalizing marijuana.
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If so, you could get in contact with your senator or congressperson — by fax.
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Did she want a congressperson who would keep Trump in check, or help him?
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This is a lot like the truism about hating Congress but loving your congressperson.
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Call your congressperson, mail a letter to your local newspaper, do whatever it takes.
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Did your congressperson ignore warnings that sea-level rise would make storm surges worse?
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By the way, the shooting I mentioned that happened in Congress, to a Congressperson, horrible.
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Call your Congressperson with us to let them know you support the Stage IV Stampede.3.
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Also, contact your congressperson above and tell them what you think would really make your community safer
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Hill, who will now be California's first openly-bisexual congressperson, never really thought about running for office.
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That's why I made a way to be sure your ashes get sent to a GOP Congressperson.
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That means over the course of a year, a congressperson from New Hampshire would earn just $100.
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That's the phone number that will go to your Congressperson wherever he or she is: 202-224-3121.
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A Republican congressperson can't even go eat a dinner without people — I mean, if that's not just crazy.
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We must make our voices heard by contacting our congressperson and senator, and by voting for climate candidates.
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Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Pressley could be the first female black Congressperson for Massachusetts.
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Free — as long as you're willing to call your congressperson, sign petitions or tweet in support of certain causes.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson to act on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).
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The site lets people "send" their "ashes" to the GOP congressperson of their choice via an online web form.
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I'm calling to ask if [Your congressperson] has a statement or plan for dealing with [Specific topic of concern].
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"We're not going to tolerate the data we continue to see," Congressperson G.K. Butterfield said on a press call.
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Take action on gun control now by contacting your congressperson This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Stay informed and help them provide the data needed to hold the White House accountable by contacting your congressperson.
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Take action on gun control now by contacting your congressperson: This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity
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Pete Sessions, a longtime congressperson who fought every weed bill he could as chairman of the House Rules Committee.
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"This is on every congressperson who said in '13: There is simply nothing we could do," Márquez-Greene wrote.
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BW: I don't think the average Congressperson — and I'm sure Luther spent years trying to educate them — understands it.
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The biennial tradition includes nonpartisan seminars, in which the members learn the basics of becoming a congressperson, and receptions, i.e.
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Giving each congressperson a chance to speak creates a disjointed format that could easily get blown off course, Akerman said.
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Every Republican senator and congressperson promised at some point during their campaign that they would fix our broken tax code.
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If you choose to do this, be sure you know who your congressperson is, and ask to be connected to them.
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But he but maintains that it's difficult to directly compare the coverage of an individual, like Ocasio-Cortez, and a congressperson.
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That apparent hypocrisy was the subject of a letter Tlaib and her fellow Democratic Congressperson Chuy Garcia recently sent to Fink.
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"If I could take every congressperson out for a dive with a blue whale, they would get it immediately," he told me.
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To test their prototype, Stephens called Will Hurd, a Republican congressperson whose district includes the nation's longest stretch of land bordering Mexico.
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They've compiled the phone numbers of each congressperson, their position on the FAIR Act, and call scripts in a publicly accessible Google Doc.
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Call on your congressperson to speak out against injustice but also speak out against how many guys look like these guys on 'Westworld.
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You can sign petitions, you can talk to your congressperson, there's things that you can do to revert this before it's too late.
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So that's why I'm just more in favor of a politician, a community servant, a congressperson to be in the highest, highest office.
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" One congressperson returned to this frame decades later, noting that "Fast Track operates like a gun to our head — no amendments, no reservations.
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The service starts off by sending a letter to the senators of your state, and later asks about sending letters to your local congressperson.
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The idea is that you can use the ePluribus extension to simultaneously post on a platform and send the same message to your congressperson.
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"Show me one [congressperson] that knows what it's like to stare at cat food and wonder if you're really that hungry," she told VICE.
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Your congressperson will usually have a schedule of Town Hall meetings on their website, or you can check out your city's website as well. 225.
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"There is bias in the recruitment, hiring and retention" of black, Latinx and women in tech, Congressperson Scott said on a media call this morning.
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Here is a handy guide on how to contact your congressperson, which includes a simple script you can modify when calling any of your representatives.
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Unfortunately for the social media company, there were no distracting "meme-worthy" moments where a Congressperson found themselves in over their heads while discussing technology.
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To me, that's why you want a congressperson who lives in your district and shares your values and understands the struggle you are having economically.
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It has been a Democratic district for 20 odd years, I mean longer than that but the person she replaced had been a ten-term Congressperson.
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And yet when I look at the papers, there's a congressperson from California, Maxine Waters, who wants to have hearings about what the banks have done.
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Specifically what it's like when you're calling to make sure your congressperson is doing his or her part to support the issues close to your heart.
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Meanwhile, 48 percent said a vote in favor of the latest Republican plan would make them less likely to support their Congressperson in the next election.
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If Baer wins, she'll be the first openly gay congressperson from Florida, and the first representative to be in a same-sex marriage with a child.
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Michigan Congressperson Rashida Tlaib is sick of billionaires who say they care about fixing climate change and then profit from investments that make the emergency worse.
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Amazon's AI chief emphasized that the ACLU's experiment considered a "match" to occur anytime the software was 80 percent confident a congressperson was in the arrestee database.
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On Thursday, a resolution for the Green New Deal—a climate change-focused public infrastructure bill spearheaded by Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—was released to the public.
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If this is something you're worried about, perhaps it's a good time to call up your congressperson and tell them to prioritize funding a mission like NEOCam.
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The fact that we are hearing a congressperson say that it is a child's responsibility to protect themselves from the poor behavior of adults is just backwards.
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"It's not easy because you're away from home, you're out in the public, and even when you're home you're not home," Barletta said of being a congressperson.
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"What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson," the lawmaker said.
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If elected, Davids and New Mexico congressional candidate Deb Haaland could become the first Native American congresswomen in history, and Davids would become Kansas' first LGBTQ congressperson.
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Tuesday, Pennsylvania Congressperson Mike Doyle announced a bill in the House of Representatives that would use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC's net neutrality decision.
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" Lopez went on to call her followers to contact their local congressperson, before saying: "I also want you to remain hopeful — hold fast to hope, faith and Love.
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But the distinction doesn't quite capture Congress in the time of the "Fox and Friends" presidency, in which a third kind of congressperson is ascendant: the Greenroom Caucus.
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"It's a bigger uphill climb running as a senator or a congressperson or as a governor on a ticket that calls itself a democratic socialist ticket," he said.
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If the government -- if the Fed is going to have lower interest rates and take on the employment issue as its job, any senator and congressperson doesn't have to.
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So check out our list of the most recent must-watch programs highlighting immigrants — and if you're inspired, call your congressperson to make your voice heard on the subject.
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And perhaps [he is] wanting to convince the public that Michael Cohen cannot be believed so the public will call their congressperson saying, 'Don't vote to impeach the president.
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Six states -- Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming -- are so small, population-wise, that they only have one congressperson apiece, and the lowest possible three electoral votes.
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William Holman who served back in the 1800s, allows an individual congressperson to propose an amendment to an appropriations bill that singles out an individual government employee or program.
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Meanwhile, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fighting for changes to U.S. immigration policy, using his Facebook page to urge people to call their local congressperson in support of undocumented Dreamers.
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" The actress and mom-of-two adds, "And now my mom gets to be that for the people of the 5th district as a nominee and hopefully as their Congressperson!
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You can reach out to your congressperson, conservation groups like the National Park Foundation and NPCA, and even peers in your community who can help spread the word about ongoing issues.
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When you click on a representative, there's a button to call their DC office, a link to their website and a tab to see the committees that the congressperson sits on.
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Tin Hut has become a mainstay of the military bases around Pearl Harbor, and Diaz counts top commanders as some of his biggest fans, as well as Hawaii congressperson Tuli Gabbard.
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Here's how the process works: On the website, or in the widget below, put in your street address and zip code and the program will automatically detect the congressperson for your district.
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Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) is the Congressperson calling for a rider to defund the joint employer standard be included in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
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Scalise (R-LA) becomes about the fifth congressperson to ask about the flagging of conservative bloggers "Diamond and Silk's" content, and ask Zuckerberg about whether the Facebook algorithm contains a political bias.
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Now given that, as a freshman congressperson, I'm not going to have a lot of responsibility for any of those issues, and will probably be a lowly person on the Agriculture Committee.
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Seven states -- Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming, along with DC -- are so small, population-wise, that they only have one congressperson apiece, and the lowest possible three electoral votes.
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Facebook is balancing multiple overlapping crises simultaneously, and each individual congressperson chose their own line of attack, giving the whole hearing a scattershot feeling that lacked a clear partisan or even thematic bent.
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Take action on gun control now by contacting your congressperson: The first wave of this project launched on March 9 in New York City, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Palm Beach and Miami.
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Other than fighting so the bill doesn't get passed in the Senate, you could arrange for your ashes to be sent to a Republican congressperson in the occasion that you pass away. Truly.
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"What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson," the Democratic lawmaker, who requested anonymity, told The Hill.
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"What I have recommended to the New York delegation is that you find her a primary opponent and make her a one-term congressperson," one Democratic lawmaker, who requested anonymity, told The Hill.
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There is no need to dig a doomsday bunker, but stock up with what you might need to stay home comfortably for two weeks (more on another suggested activity, calling your Congressperson, below).
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That makes him the second California congressperson and former Bay Area prosecutor in the race, after Kamala Harris, the third-youngest 2020 candidate so far (he's 38), and the only candidate named Eric.
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There's a sick horror to the idea of the entire US government — save one guy and a few aides (and presumably a congressperson or two who slept through the big speech) — being destroyed.
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But if net neutrality and the influence of Big Telecom is an issue you're worried about, you might be curious to know how much money your Congressperson has gotten in contributions from ISPs.
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"For victims of nonconsensual pornography, technology today makes it possible to destroy a person's life with the click of a button or a tap on a cell phone," Congressperson Speier said in a statement.
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The Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (HR 5474), which would suspend funding to Honduran security forces, was introduced by Democrat congressperson Hank Johnson in June of 2016, and again in March of 2017.
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The U.S. election has inspired more people to become politically involved, and one of the most practical and direct ways to have an impact is to directly call your Congressperson to have your voice heard.
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Given the lack of diversity and reports of hostility and discrimination, Congressperson Bobby Scott called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct a report that examines diversity, inclusion, hiring and discrimination in the tech industry.
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US President Donald Trump has said Libra "will have little standing or dependability," while Democratic Congressperson Rashida Tlaib reportedly asked if Facebook was trying to create a "crypto mafia" by setting up the Libra Association.
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In collaboration with Congressperson David Cicilline, the legislation would also ban "mega mergers" between companies where one has more than $40 billion in annual revenue or both have at least $15 billion in annual revenue.
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Life is apparently imitating forgettable art, because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the leftist who has become the country's most buzzed-about incoming congressperson after unseating a Democratic incumbent, is aiming for a nearly equivalent level of transparency.
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According to the Twitter account congress-edits, which documents every Wikipedia revision that comes from an IP address within Congress, a congressperson just changed the entry by removing it from the "Male characters in comics" category.
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You can start by lobbying your congressperson to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act and telling the White House and Department of Labor to act quickly to finalize the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order Regulations.6.
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Of course, you're not *actually* going to fold just yet — you know that if you don't scream at your dumb Congressperson or send money to that rando candidate in Pieceofshittown, Western Civilization will crumble to the ground.
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A vast set of policies to fight climate change, prepare for its effects, address income inequality, and save working-class jobs, fronted by a brand-new congressperson with a national profile—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York's AOC?
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If you're a congressperson or a senator, I'd love to talk to you or support you if you've got stuff going on in the animal welfare space … Hopefully they'll be able to let me into the conversation.
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In September, Silicon Valley congressperson Ro Khanna introduced a bill calling for a $1.4 trillion expansion of the earned income tax credit, which would effectively create a small basic income for low-income working people via tax credits.
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The anti-LGBTQ measure, known as the Russell Amendment, after the Republican congressperson who proposed it, was included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a spending bill for the Department of Defense passed by the House late Wednesday.
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This might mean helping the kids in your life figure out how to set up a meeting with a school official, or finding the right contact information to call their congressperson, and then helping them write a script.
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All of the things no one would ever think about needing to know if you become a new Congressperson, but there has to be a day where someone points out all the bathrooms and elevators at some point, right?
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As it worked out, Ms. Pelosi, one of the most consistently and unfairly maligned politicians of our time, will now become the first congressperson to regain the speakership of the House since Sam Rayburn did it back in 1955.
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Such is the through-the-looking-glass world of Leni Zumas's harrowing Red Clocks — a novel so uncannily close to our own surreal political dystopia you might just find yourself reaching to call your Congressperson with the turn of every page.
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And while historically, politics has tended to attract older people who stick around for a while — the average age of a congressperson in 2017-2018 was 57.8 years, and the average length of service almost a decade — it's hardly representative.
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Everything a Congressperson does – from ensuring a Social Security recipient gets her benefits to securing a high school graduate's place at the Naval Academy to hosting a jobs fair – will become even more challenging or may not get done at all.
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All of the Ugly Gerry font's letters are more or less easily identifiable as a letter in the alphabet, however, to the point where you could probably write a letter to your congressperson and have them be able to understand it.
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It also means theme answers that are just plausible enough to be real, while still silly or incongruous enough to elicit a laugh — of course you'd never really call a fat congressperson "Senator of Gravity," but it's funny to think about.
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But you can't separate the current wave of white power activity from the president's dark warnings of foreign "invaders" or the pervasive anti-Muslim rhetoric from conservative media personalities or the outright use of white supremacist tropes from a sitting congressperson.
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Because the messages are all sent from within the app, you lose the feeling of calling or emailing your congressperson directly, but apparently that hasn't deterred users: Countable says it has delivered over 1,500,000 messages to Capitol Hill since this past Election Day.
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Take action on gun control now by contacting your congressperson: Everytown for Gun Safety was first launched in 2014, when former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg spent $50 million to help create an organization that would fight the NRA and support gun control.
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When she learned that her congressperson was holding his town hall across the state (400 miles away from their district's largest population center), she drove 12 hours round trip and filmed her experience for Twitter, where it quickly blew up and made headlines.
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Means TV's Detroit-based founders, Naomi Burton and Nick Hayes, first gained national attention as the producers of a low-budget and tremendously effective viral campaign video for US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018, helping propel the freshman congressperson into progressive stardom.
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The letter—signed by Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Marco Rubio, Republican Congresspeople Mike Conway and Liz Cheney, and Democratic Congressperson Dutch Rupperberge—urges Google to reconsider its relationship with Huawei, which has "extensive ties with the Chinese Communist Party," according to the lawmakers.
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I don't think it's going to be based upon my relationships in South Carolina or throughout the South, but when you're an African-American congressperson from the Southern states, generally you're the congressman for all Democrats in the state because you're the only one.
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No child should go to school and fear for their life, and yet when talking to students on the campaign trail and as their Congressperson, the message they sent was loud and clear: They weren't worried about if a shooting would happen at their school.
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"If you are a sitting congressperson using this Instagram account, your Stories should be saved by default into an archive that is accessible and maintained outside of the candidate's power," says Alex Howard, a former deputy director at the Sunlight Foundation who has written on the topic.
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So, we get another long episode of Theater Of The Absurd, where each congressperson gives an impassioned partisan speech, and every news network replays the best ones about 50 times, and each side is aghast at the other...and literally nothing happens, nothing changes, nothing is solved.
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Also, I was curious as to whether or not [Your congressperson] thinks the Westworld robot horses have the same software as the robot people and if all you'd need to do is bump up their intelligence like Sylvester and Felix do for Maeve to make them talk.
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Most people such as Sam will never be able to vote, organize a protest march, call their congressperson or advocate for themselves in any other way, so they are truly dependent on the understanding and tolerance of others to fight for the brightness of their futures.
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"They say call your senator and call your congressperson, but it can be kind of a frustrating experience because it is unclear what really happens after the call, and worse, no one else knows that you have called in — your call essentially falls into this black hole," he said.
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No U.S. congressperson has breastfed during a session — but Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth made history when she became the first sitting senator to have a baby while in office in April, and then again that month when she became the first to bring a baby to the Senate floor.
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Countless recent cases—from Elon Musk's "pedo guy" saga to congressperson Devin Nunes suing accounts that impersonate his mom and his cow—have involved defamatory statements made in cellphone videos or in writing (more than once the writing was just emoji) or comments posted on Yelp and Twitter.
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"Tax requirements like the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the report of foreign bank and financial accounts (FBAR) start to become more painful for people and they write to their congressperson, seeking action, " said David McKeegan, co-founder of Greenback Expat Tax Services and an American residing in Indonesia.
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In districts that heard the writing-across-the-curriculum call and answered earnestly, as ours has tried, students might be treated additionally to writing letters to a congressperson in social studies, cutting and pasting together an STD brochure in health, or doing a research report on Marie Curie in science.
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This shift has been institutionalized by developments like the Hastert rule (whereby the Republican House, when they have a majority, only bring up bills that have majority support within their own party) and the rise of right-wing absolutists (who threaten to primary any congressperson or senator who doesn't toe the ideological line).
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"If I had the courage to stand up for myself back then, then I have the courage to stand up for [my constituents in Washington]," Chandler tells CNBC Make It. Though she could make history as the first openly transgender congressperson, she remains focused on her 13-point platform — and she hopes others will, too.
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I wouldn't even expect that a particular bit of smart gun tech would have to be particularly reliable or even fully baked to catch the eye of a zealous California congressperson, who wouldn't wait for the market to sort out the technology's viability before insisting that it be included in all future firearms sold in the state.
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Asked whether they'd be more or less likely to support their own member of Congress should they vote to repeal the ACA, 36% said they'd be more likely to back a repeal-supporting member of Congress and 32% less likely, but fully 30% said whether their congressperson voted to repeal wouldn't matter to their 2018 ballot choice.
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Bitcoin tumbles after US lawmakers take aim at Libra — 'Facebook has burned down the house over and over'US Congressman Brad Sherman says Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency 'may do more to endanger America' than 9/11Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's exchange with Facebook's crypto boss exposed a big problem about who actually controls the Libra currencyFacebook must overcome a severe lack of trust if it hopes to bring Libra, its new cryptocurrency, to the massesA Michigan congressperson said Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency reminded him of a 'platypus' but then decided it was more like a traveler's check
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Full list: Jerome Michael Adams, U.S. surgeon general Marsha Blackburn, U.S. senator John Bolton, national security adviser Tom Bossert, Trump's former Homeland Security adviser Scott Brown, U.S. ambassador to New Zealand Terry Branstad, U.S. ambassador to China Jovita Carranza, U.S. treasurer Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor David Clarke, former Milwaukee sheriff Dan Coats, director of national intelligence Gary Cohn, Trump's former chief economic advisor Toby Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic CEO Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education Ari Emanuel, William Morris Endeavor CEO Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. congressperson (D-Hawaii) Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer Giuliani also had a separate business ties research dossier compiled.
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