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Week of August 17, 2008

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Working Mother Media and Corporate Voices for Working Families

Honor Congressman Yarmuth for Making a Difference for

Working Families

 

Congressman John Yarmuth has been honored by Working Mother Media and Corporate Voices for Working Families with the inaugural Best of Congress award, for improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies. The award spotlights Congressman Yarmuth’s congressional excellence in supporting working families through legislation and by practicing what is preached – employing family-friendly policies in his own office.

 

A profile of Congressman Yarmuth is featured in the August/September 2008 issue of Working Mother magazine and at www.workingmother.com. 

 

“Not only did we judge Congressman Yarmuth on his voting records for supporting working families, we also examined the benefits that his own employees receive like paid leave and flextime,” Carol Evans, CEO, Working Mother Media, said. “John Yarmuth is stepping up voluntarily because he believes in progressive policies and acts on his beliefs in the real world managing his staff.”

 

“John Yarmuth has shown what can be accomplished through legislation and a personal commitment to policies that benefit working families,” Donna Klein, president and founder of Corporate Voices for Working Families, said. “As our nation wrestles with a host of economic and other issues involving working families, Congressman Yarmuth deserves to be congratulated and recognized nationally for his leadership and support.”

 

In his first term in the House, Yarmuth has been a strong supporter of legislation to raise the minimum wage, improve workplace conditions, prohibit gender discrimination in determining salaries, and guarantee adequate maternity leave and time off for health reasons.  He has also sponsored and cosponsored legislation to increase educational opportunities at every level, including Head Start for young children, Striving Readers for middle and high school students, and the College Cost Reduction Act— which was signed into law last year and is the largest investment in college affordability since the G.I. Bill.

 

“Fighting for Louisville’s working families is my top priority in Congress, so I am honored to have my work recognized by ‘Working Mother’ and ‘Corporate Voices for Working Families,” Yarmuth said.  “This is the land of opportunity, and we are working to make sure that the American Dream is attainable for every man, woman, and child who works for it.”

 

Members who were considered for the award were judged on their voting records, sponsored/co-sponsored legislation, and efforts to promote legislation that supports working families.  Members were also asked to submit policies and practices within their own offices that support working families and flexible workplace options.

 

 Award recipients were chosen by a bipartisan steering committee co-chaired by Ted Childs, Founder and Principal of Ted Childs, LLC and Jane Swift, Founder and Principal of WNP Consulting, LLC and former Governor of Massachusetts.  Also on the steering committee reviewing applications were Patricia Kempthorne, Founder and Executive Director of the Twiga Foundation and Pat Schroeder, President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers and former congresswoman from Colorado.

 

The Best of Congress award will be presented to Yarmuth at a recognition breakfast in Washington on Sept. 10, at Sewell House.  Recipients of the Best of Congress award will attend, and Antonio M. Perez, CEO of Kodak, will talk about the award and issues involving working families.

 

Working Mother magazine has been in the forefront of the movement to improve the quality of life for working families for over 29 years and annually honors the 100 best companies whose policies create family-friendly workplaces.

 

About Corporate Voices for Working Families

Corporate Voices for Working Families is the leading national business membership organization representing the private sector on public policy issues involving working families.  We aim to improve the lives of working families and the competitiveness of American businesses. Our Web site: www.cvworkingfamilies.org. Our blog: www.corporatevoices.wordpress.com.

 

About Working Mother Media

Founded in 1979, Working Mother magazine reaches 2 million readers and is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers.  Its 22-year signature initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, is the most important benchmark for work/life practices in corporate America. Working Mother is published by Working Mother Media, which was founded in 2001. WMM includes the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), Diversity Best Practices, the WorkLife Congress, the Multicultural Women's Conference and Town Halls.  Working Mother Media's mission is to champion culture change. For more information, please visit www.workingmother.com.

 

 


 

Know-Nothing Politics, By PAUL KRUGMAN

So the G.O.P. has found its issue for the 2008 election. For the next three months the party plans to keep chanting: “Drill here! Drill now! Drill here! Drill now! Four legs good, two legs bad!” O.K., I added that last part.

 

And the debate on energy policy has helped me find the words for something I’ve been thinking about for a while. Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid.

 

Now, I don’t mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don’t mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives.

 

What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”

 

In the case of oil, this takes the form of pretending that more drilling would produce fast relief at the gas pump. In fact, earlier this week Republicans in Congress actually claimed credit for the recent fall in oil prices: “The market is responding to the fact that we are here talking,” said Representative John Shadegg.

 

What about the experts at the Department of Energy who say that it would take years before offshore drilling would yield any oil at all, and that even then the effect on prices at the pump would be “insignificant”? Presumably they’re just a bunch of wimps, probably Democrats. And the Democrats, as Representative Michele Bachmann assures us, “want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, take light rail to their government jobs.”

 

Is this political pitch too dumb to succeed? Don’t count on it.

 

Remember how the Iraq war was sold. The stuff about aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds was just window dressing. The main political argument was, “They attacked us, and we’re going to strike back” — and anyone who tried to point out that Saddam and Osama weren’t the same person was an effete snob who hated America, and probably looked French.

 

Let’s also not forget that for years President Bush was the center of a cult of personality that lionized him as a real-world Forrest Gump, a simple man who prevails through his gut instincts and moral superiority. “Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man,” declared Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal in 2004. “He’s not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.”

 

It wasn’t until Hurricane Katrina — when the heckuva job done by the man of whom Ms. Noonan said, “if there’s a fire on the block, he’ll run out and help” revealed the true costs of obliviousness — that the cult began to fade.

 

What’s more, the politics of stupidity didn’t just appeal to the poorly informed. Bear in mind that members of the political and media elites were more pro-war than the public at large in the fall of 2002, even though the flimsiness of the case for invading Iraq should have been even more obvious to those paying close attention to the issue than it was to the average voter.

 

Why were the elite so hawkish? Well, I heard a number of people express privately the argument that some influential commentators made publicly — that the war was a good idea, not because Iraq posed a real threat, but because beating up someone in the Middle East, never mind who, would show Muslims that we mean business. In other words, even alleged wise men bought into the idea of macho posturing as policy.

 

All this is in the past. But the state of the energy debate shows that Republicans, despite Mr. Bush’s plunge into record unpopularity and their defeat in 2006, still think that know-nothing politics works. And they may be right.

 

Sad to say, the current drill-and-burn campaign is getting some political traction. According to one recent poll, 69 percent of Americans now favor expanded offshore drilling — and 51 percent of them believe that removing restrictions on drilling would reduce gas prices within a year.

 

The headway Republicans are making on this issue won’t prevent Democrats from expanding their majority in Congress, but it might limit their gains — and could conceivably swing the presidential election, where the polls show a much closer race.

 

In any case, remember this the next time someone calls for an end to partisanship, for working together to solve the country’s problems. It’s not going to happen — not as long as one of America’s two great parties believes that when it comes to politics, stupidity is the best policy.

 


 

Two-Thirds of Corporations Pay No Taxes, But McCain Still Wants To Lower the Corporate Tax Rate

 

A cornerstone of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) economic plan — Jobs for America — is cutting the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, which McCain claims will turn America into a “low-tax business environment.” But as it turns out, even with the rate at 35 percent, most corporations are not paying taxes.

 

Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report showing that between 1998 and 2005 “about two-thirds of corporations operating in the United States did not pay taxes.” Corporations have a “variety of reasons” for not paying, including “the cost of producing their goods, salary expenses and interest payments on their debt.”

 

McCain, meanwhile, has derided the U.S. corporate tax rate as the “second highest in the world.” While his statement is technically accurate for the purely nominal rate, U.S. tax revenue as a share of the economy is significantly lower (See graph below), and is below the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average. The U.S. raises less revenue from corporations than Japan, the United Kingdom, and even Ireland, which the McCain campaign cites as a country with a competitive corporate rate.

 

The reasons for low U.S. revenue are the tax loopholes, shelters, and giveaways that minimize, or completely eliminate corporate taxes, and which McCain has not proposed fixing. A loophole allowing corporations to keep profits offshore aided Hewlett-Packard, whose CEO at the time was McCain economic adviser Carly Fiorina, in defering taxation on $14.4 billion. This lowered Hewlett-Packard’s effective tax rate from 35 percent to 12 percent.

 

As ABC’s George Stephanopolous pointed out during an interview with Fiorina, McCain’s proposed cut in corporate taxes won’t entice any corporations to bring money back to the U.S. “if they can pay no taxes” by taking advantage of offshore loopholes.

 


 

 

How Do Obama and McCain Compare on Health Care? by Seth Michaels

 

How would Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain tackle the health care crisis if elected president? It’s one of the most important questions at stake in the 2008 election.

 

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) offers new analysis of the candidates’ health care proposals, and the result is clear: Obama’s proposal would cover more people, more efficiently.

 

Obama’s health care plan is based on the principles that are essential to successful reform of the health care system: expanding affordable, high-quality health care coverage to everyone. While families could keep the coverage they have now, they also would enjoy a wider array of options, including a public plan. Increasing the number of people covered is essential to lowering health care costs across the market—not just for the uninsured, but for everyone. According to the EPI analysis:

 

This large pool would have substantial administrative and marketing cost-savings relative to the existing non-group market, creating potential savings not just for those judged to be bad risks by insurance companies, but for all purchasers who do not currently have access to employer or public programs.

 

McCain’s health care plan won’t cut costs or cover more people. Indeed, McCain’s health care plan could wind up raising taxes for millions of working families or lead to them losing benefits altogether. His approach would fundamentally alter the health care system for the worse, especially for people with health problems. McCain’s plan could even drive the cost of health care further up. As the EPI analysis notes:

 

McCain’s plan changes the incentives for purchasing in the employer market as compared to the individual market. This change will lead to destabilized employer pools and fewer employers offering insurance.

 

Some of the people who lose coverage through their employer will simply lose coverage altogether. The individual market subjects individuals to the whims of the insurance industry: poor information about policies, discriminatory pricing, coverage waivers, refusal to pay for pre-existing conditions, and denial of policy renewal. To make matters worse, other parts of the McCain plan remove many of the (already insufficient) consumer protections that currently exist in state regulations.

 

The real beneficiaries of McCain’s plan would be the private insurance companies, whose market share would skyrocket while regulations protecting consumers withered away. Those same insurance companies would see huge corporate tax cuts from McCain’s plan (nearly $2 billion to the top 10 companies). Under McCain’s plan, insurance companies would rake in the profits, while working families would be left on their own at the mercy of the insurance market.

 

McCain’s campaign, of course, is packed with advisers and fundraisers who are lobbyists for the health insurance industry. Is it any wonder that his health care policies are aimed more at the insurers than consumers?

 

Health care is a critical difference between these two candidates, and the union members taking part in the AFL-CIO’s Labor 2008 political mobilization program have been working hard making sure that difference is clear. In May, thousands of union volunteers knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors in union member-to-member walks focused on health care.

 

The next president has the opportunity to make the health care system work better for everyone—a crucial ingredient in making sure the economy is strong and families are secure. When it comes to health care, the differences between the candidates are clear.

 


 

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Quotes of the Week
 
"Republican power and [Republican Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell's power are built on oil money." -Lexington Herald Leader Editorial
 
Kentucky: McConnell slammed

The Lexington Herald-Leader editorial board slammed McConnell for filibustering energy bills before leaving for recess while blaming others for high gas prices.

The editorial board questions McConnell's motives writing, "Since 1996, more than three-fourths of oil- and gas-industry contributions have gone to Republicans. The industry gave $2.4 million to Republican senators during the years McConnell was in charge of their fund-raising. His colleagues showed their gratitude by making him their leader. Republican power and McConnell's power are built on oil money."

The editorial concludes, "What McConnell is doing is good for the oil industry and may even prove to be smart politics. But it's not responsible leadership."

 

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I am looking for people to help with some troops I sponsor in IRAQ its thru the program AdoptAPlatoon its a great feeling to help these men and women in Uniform who are doing their job and doing a great one at that,


I feel for alot of them they are all young people and they could be our daughters and sons or even grandkids.  But they need our support regardless if we disagree with the war in Iraq,, 

 

Sadly enough they signed up to do a job and that's to protect our country at a time of need. IIf you know of anyone that could help send things like toiletries, socks, potato sticks, card games, other games, and etc to help with the needs' of these men and women..

 

Please have them contact me at Kathy Candell 502-299-3491.  Please leave a message if I don't pick up right away. I will get back to each and every person who wants to help out.


The troop I am supporting is out of Ft Bliss Texas 36 soldiers ,, and 6 are women. Again if anyone is interested please have them contact me right away. Thanks for your email.  Kathy Candell Louisville Ky

 


 

DAILY GRILL

 

"The Energy Information Agency [sic] which is a respected nonpartisan branch of our government does say if we expanded supply, it would reduce the price." -- Karl Rove, 8/5/08

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"Any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant." --Energy Information Administration, 2007

 

 


 

Quotes of the Day   

 

Rick Warren founded his church in 1980 from zero, and it now numbers 22,000. His book, The Purpose Driven Life, has sold 30 million copies, in English alone. It is considered the best-selling hardcover book. Ever.

 

But this is what scares the hate-based evangelical movement:

 

If "2.3 billion people in the world claim to be followers of Jesus," then why not take the next step and mobilize those people to do important things, like stop poverty, improve literacy, feed the hungry, heal the sick? Conventional relief organizations are fine, but why not tap what Warren calls "the faith sector," the armies of motivated religious volunteers who are sick and tired of polarizing rhetoric and professional crusaders? "The old paradigm was, 'You pay, you pray, you get out of the way'," he explains, but in today's global and wired world, troops of caring volunteers can be deployed to communities in need with the push of a button. Such was the case on Christmas 2004, when Warren, awake and online at 4:30 a.m., received news of a massive underwater earthquake via e-mail from a pastor in Sri Lanka. Warren, who has an e-mail list of 200,000 pastors worldwide, notified churches in Thailand and Indonesia, that immediately mobilized volunteers to tsunami disaster sites. "It's universal distribution," he says, excitedly. "There's a church in every village in the world ... the potential sits there like a sleeping giant."

 


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Recent Senate Votes 

 

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    Recent House Votes 

     

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    HUMOR    

     

    "According to rumors, John McCain and Barack Obama are trying to get Angelina Jolie’s endorsement for the campaign, and John Edwards is just trying to get her number." --Craig Ferguson

    "It turns out the Chinese faked part of the opening ceremonies. They made the fireworks look more lively. It's the same technology they use for John McCain." --Craig Ferguson

    "John Edwards, presidential aspirant and author of the famed claim that there are two Americas, was apparently only faithful to his wife in one of them. Apparently he didn't realize that the National Enquirer had reporters stationed in the other America, where he was, in fact, banging his videographer." --Jon Stewart (Watch video clip)

    "You know, he really is adorable. He shouldn't be our president. He should be our mascot." --Jon Stewart, watching Bush at the Olympics

    "Bush did sit down with the premiere Olympic sportscaster of all time, Bob Costas, to discuss what he thought was so weird about the invasion [on screen: Bush saying he thought it was odd Russia invaded Georgia during a time when the world is promoting 'peace and harmony,' and that there needs to be 'international mediation there']. Yes. Sometimes international mediation can solve conflicts. That's President Bush winning the preliminary heat in the 200 meter lack of self-awareness dash [on screen: Bush saying America doesn't seem to have any problems]. I think that might be our biggest problem." --Jon Stewart

     


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    REPORT: IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES COULD NOT BE EFFECTIVELY DESTROYED BY STRIKE: A study to be released today by the nonpartisan Institute for Science and International Security has found that "Iran's uranium facilities are too widely dispersed and protected -- and, in some cases, concealed too well -- to be effectively destroyed by warplanes." This study comes just a day after the Associated Press reported that "Israel is building up its strike capabilities" and "appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran’s atomic program, even if it can’t destroy it." The study notes that "any damage to [Iran's] nuclear program could be quickly repaired," and that "an Israeli or U.S. attack would result in broader popular support for Iran's ruling clerics and could lead Tehran to sever ties with the U.N. nuclear watchdog." David Albright, the principal author of the report and a former U.N. weapons inspector, explained that in response to a strike, "Iran would likely launch a 'crash' program to quickly obtain nuclear weapons." "An attack would likely leave Iran angry, more nationalistic, fed up with international inspectors and nonproliferation treaties, and more determined than ever to obtain nuclear weapons," he said.
     

    ROVE BASELESSLY CLAIMS DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SAID OFFSHORE OIL DRILILNG WOULD LOWER PRICES: On Wednesday on Fox News, former top Bush adviser Karl Rove discussed gas prices and energy policy. Co-host Alan Colmes noted that conservatives like Rove just want to drill for more oil with the "hope that seven years from now we bring down the price which President Bush's Energy Department says it wouldn't do." Rove then became agitated, arguing with Colmes: "The EIA does say that drilling would bring down prices. You're wrong on your facts." But it's actually Rove who is wrong -- or misleading at best. The group Rove cites to back up his "facts" -- the Energy Information Administration -- reported that new drilling couldn't likely start until 2018, and won't ever have much impact on oil prices. "Because oil prices are determined on the international market, however, any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant," the agency noted. In regards to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, another idea championed by conservatives, the EIA observed that oil production there "is not projected to have a large impact on world oil prices."

     


     

    Think Fast  

      

    Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced he would disband his militia if the United States agreed to timetable for withdrawal. "It should not be considered an end to the Mehdi army," a spokesman for al-Sadr said, about the militia's ceasefire, "but it’s a halfway step to dissolving the Mehdi Army. If the U.S. began to implement a withdrawal timetable we shall complete the path to dissolution."

     

    A new liberal organization dubbed "Accountable America" will reportedly "confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions." Tom Matzzie, who heads the group, explained, "We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground."

     

    "A racially charged Democratic primary campaign ended Thursday" with incumbent congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) "trouncing the opponent who ran an ad linking him to the Ku Klux Klan. Unofficial results showed Cohen with 79 percent of the vote to 19 percent for Nikki Tinker.

     

     

     


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    David Williams & Bill Nighbert: A Flashback  Source

     

    After reading this story, we just wanted to take a trip down the David Williams-Bill Nighbert memory lane…

     

    “As good a friend as I have in the world.”

    David Williams said Bill Nighbert “is as good a friend as I have in the world.” –Courier-Journal, July 13, 2005

     

    Williams: Nighbert is a “longtime friend of mine.”

    “He’s one of my constituents, a longtime friend of mine, and I think he has a lot of expertise,” Williams said. “I hope he comes over and helps us during the session.” –Courier-Journal, December 19, 2007

     

    Nighbert: Williams “Is a good friend of mine,” He is friendly and supportive of Williams.

    In 2006, Governor Ernie Fletcher made a transportation announcement in Williams’ district. “Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert said he didn’t tell Senate President David Williams about a visit to Williams’ district by Gov. Ernie Fletcher on Wednesday to avoid a public clash between the two…”

     

    “The comments that were made last week by the senator who is a good friend of mine also put some tension there,” Nighbert told the Herald-Leader. “Nighbert said he remains friendly toward and supportive of Williams but must be loyal to his boss, Fletcher.” –Associated Press, July 6, 2006

     

    Herald-Leader: Williams showed up for Nighbert’s arraignment, is one of Nighbert’s Chief Backers.

    “Acting Secretary Bill Nighbert, who had been charged with three misdemeanors, also survived the cut,” said a Herald-Leader article on firings.

     

    “One of his chief backers is State Senate President David Williams, who even showed up in July for Nighbert’s arraignment.” –Herald-Leader, September 19, 2005

     

    Williams: Came to Nighbert arraignment to provide moral support

    In 2005, David Williams attended Bill Nighbert’s arraignment, saying he “wanted to provide moral support for his friend, acting Transportation Secretary Bill Nighbert,” according to the H-L. “Williams labeled the event a ‘political farce’ and ‘media circus.’” –Herald-Leader, July 13, 2005

     


     

    Help Our Veterans Vote, By SUSAN BYSIEWICZ

    WHAT is the secretary of Veterans Affairs thinking? On May 5, the department led by James B. Peake issued a directive that bans nonpartisan voter registration drives at federally financed nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and shelters for homeless veterans. As a result, too many of our most patriotic American citizens — our injured and ill military veterans — may not be able to vote this November.

     

    I have witnessed the enforcement of this policy. On June 30, I visited the Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Haven, Conn., to distribute information on the state’s new voting machines and to register veterans to vote. I was not allowed inside the hospital.

     

    Outside on the sidewalk, I met Martin O’Nieal, a 92-year-old man who lost a leg while fighting the Nazis in the mountains of Northern Italy during the harsh winter of 1944. Mr. O’Nieal has been a resident of the hospital since 2007. He wanted to vote last year, but he told me that there was no information about how to register to vote at the hospital and the nurses could not answer his questions about how or where to cast a ballot.

     

    I carry around hundreds of blank voter registration cards in the trunk of my car for just such occasions, so I was able to register Mr. O’Nieal in November. I also registered a few more veterans — whoever I could find outside on the hospital’s sidewalk.

     

    There are thousands of veterans of wars in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and the current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan who are isolated behind the walls of V.A. hospitals and nursing homes across the country. We have an obligation to make sure that every veteran has the opportunity to make his or her voice heard at the ballot box.

     

    Connecticut’s attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, and I wrote to Secretary Peake in July to request that elections officials be let inside the department’s facilities to conduct voter education and registration. Our request was denied.

     

    The department offers two reasons to justify its decision. First, it claims that voter registration drives are disruptive to the care of its patients. This is nonsense. Veterans can fill out a voter registration card in about 90 seconds.

     

    Second, the department claims that its employees cannot help patients register to vote because the Hatch Act forbids federal workers from engaging in partisan political activities. But this interpretation of the Hatch Act is erroneous. Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

     

    If the department does not want to burden its staff, there are several national organizations with a long history of nonpartisan advocacy for veterans and their right to vote that are eager to help, as are elected officials like me.

     

    The department has placed an illegitimate obstacle in the way of election officials across the country and, more important, in the way of veterans who want to vote. A group of 21 secretaries of state — Republicans and Democrats throughout the country, led by me and my counterpart in Washington State, Sam Reed — has asked Secretary Peake to lift his department’s ridiculous ban on voter registration drives.

     

    Bills that would require the department to repeal the ban have been filed in both houses of Congress. They need to be signed into law no later than Oct. 1, so that veterans in V.A. care don’t miss their states’ deadlines to register to vote in the fall elections.

     

    But federal legislation shouldn’t be needed for the Department of Veterans Affairs to lift the ban on voter registration drives by state and local election officials and nonpartisan groups.

     

    The federal government should be doing everything it can to support our nation’s veterans who have served us so courageously. There can be no justification for any barrier that impedes the ability of veterans to participate in democracy’s most fundamental act, the vote.

     

    Susan Bysiewicz is the secretary of state for Connecticut.


     

    Buy American Mention of the Week            

     

    None this week

     

     

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    Roger Simmermaker is the author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism and writes "Buy American Mention of the Week" articles for WorldNetDaily.com and his website www.howtobuyamerican.com. Roger is a member of the Machinists Union and National Writers Union, has been a frequent guest on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and has been quoted in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and US News & World Report among many other publications.

     

     


     

    GOOD NEWS

     

    The working families did not get any good news this week.

     


     

    VIDEOS  

     

     

    McCain Revealed: The Briefing Book

     

     

     www.meetobama08.org

     

    What You Should Know About America's Next President
     

     

     

     


     

     

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