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Can we now spend the next couple of years working together for everyone instead of blocking voting party lines when it doesn't help your constituents or the country as a whole? Thank you.
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William Harasym"Romney Relies On Right-Wing Fringe Group To Bolster Support Among Women" This morning, Mitt Romney’s campaign hosted a press call with women supporters to beef up the presumed GOP nominee’s flagging support among female voters. And while it was supposed to be about the economy — it was called “The Obama Economy Isn’t Working For Women” — most of the call was spent attacking a democratic strategist’s (and CAPAF board member) poorly chosen comments about Romney’s wife, Ann. The call featured Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Virginia Delegte Barbra Comstock (R), Concerned Women For America’s Penny Nance, and a “mommy blogger.” But these surrogates are an odd choice to defend Romney on women’s issues. Both McMorris Rodgers and Lummis voted against the Lilly Ledbetter pay-equity act (Ayotte was not in the Senate at the time of the vote, though most of colleagues opposed it as well). Meanwhile, Comstock supported Virginia’s infamous bill to force women to be vaginally probed before getting an abortion, in addition its radical Personhood bill, and another bill that would prevent a woman from using her own money to purchase health private insurance that covers abortion. Nance is a particularly egregious choice. Her group, CWA, holds some radical views that don’t reflect the beliefs of most American women. For example: A WOMAN’S JOB IS TO HELP HER HUSBAND: Janice Shaw Crouse of CWA told the Christian post that “Many Christian women choose to work part time, to bring in some extra income to help the family, but they don’t view their job as a career or they don’t see themselves as career women — they see themselves helping their husbands. It’s a completely different perspective from modern secular feminists, a fundamental disagreement and a different worldview about what it means to be a woman.” [10/2011] ATTACKED WORKING-MOTHERS: A paper penned by CWFA’s Beverly LaHaye Institute claimed that “the feminists have achieved their goal: widely available child care to ‘free themselves of motherhood.’” “[W]e’ve known for years that the outcomes are undesirable when children spend too much time in day care… The best environment to foster a child’s intellectual development is one in which his or her mother is actively involved on a day-to-day basis; the best environment is the home.” [2004] ATTACKED BIRTH CONTROL: The group put out a brochure titled “‘Birth Control’: Health Care or Health Risk?” It lists trumped-up side effects for common forms of birth control, such as, “poisoning of the organs,” “heart attack,” and even “death.” [Undated brochure] GAY MOTHERS TREAT CHILDREN LIKE ‘GUINEA PIGS’: CWA’s Janice Shaw Crouse claimed “the data overwhelmingly says” that homes headed by same-sex couples “are not as good for children.” She went on to say that the “homosexual agenda” is “being advanced at the expense of our children and at the expense of the future of our country” and that we are witnessing “children who are being used as guinea pigs.” [11/2011] Meanwhile, Nance — who endorsed and campaigned for Rick Santorum — has attacked Romney in the past, and even his religion. “With evangelical Christians being one of the largest voting blocs in America, ‘the Mormon thing’ may be an issue,” she wrote in an op-ed. “Some of my CWALAC ladies would love to understand the whole ‘eternal pregnancy in heaven thing,’ which, admittedly, to me sounds more like damnation than heaven,” she said of his religion.
November 3 at 6:28pm- William Harasym
"Romney Conference Call On Women To Feature Another Anti-Pay Equity Republican Congresswoman" Yesterday, Mitt Romney’s campaign enlisted Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) to attack President Obama’s record on women’s issues, despite the fact that both had voted against two signature Obama administration efforts designed to fight pay discrimination against women. Today, the campaign announced a conference call to continue the bizarre attacks featuring three Republican women. The call will feature Rodgers and another Congresswoman, Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), who also voted against both the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act. A third Romney supporter on the call, first-term Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), was not yet in Congress when the votes came up.
November 3 at 6:25pm - William Harasym
The House Republican “oil above all” agenda has a new home in the fiscal year 2013 appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency. Today the House Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill that would slash funds to enforce pollution laws and protect public lands, oceans, and wildlife. It also contains a number of policy provisions that have nothing to do with spending that would block enforcement of existing environmental laws, threaten our health, and harm our lands. Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) raised grave concerns about the bill yesterday: Literally, the quality of the air we breathe and the water we drink depends on programs funded by this bill. Millions of Americans make their vacation plans based on their ability to enjoy the natural, scenic, recreational, and cultural resources whose protection is funded by this bill…. The deep funding cuts necessitated … as well as the various special interest riders and funding limitations that were included in the subcommittee bill, would cause real harm to the environment and to efforts to preserve America’s natural and cultural heritage. The biggest issues revolve around the levels of funding that various agencies will be facing under this bill. For example, it would slash EPA’s budget by nearly 20 percent, including a 10 percent cut to clean air and climate programs. Additionally, EPA would see a 9 percent cut in enforcement under this bill, which is like taking 1 of every 10 cops off the beat when it comes to enforcing air, water, and toxics safeguards. And state enforcement of pollution reduction laws in the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act will be more difficult, because 28 percent of this funding compared to 2012 will be slashed – more than $1 billion. Critical conservation programs managed by the Department of Interior also face severe funding reductions. Most surprisingly, the popular Land and Water Conservation Fund Program that enjoys bipartisan support was cut by nearly 80 percent compared to the current year to only $66 million — the lowest levels in its nearly 50-year history. This program does not require any new federal spending; rather, it uses receipts from offshore oil and gas development to fund repairs and other projects in our national parks, wildlife refuges, and local parks. In addition to these crippling funding cuts, the bill includes a number of harmful policy riders that would block implementation and enforcement of existing laws and programs. The bill would: - Prevent implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution rule, which would reduce smog and acid rain pollution from upwind states that plague downwind states - Block the new greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards rule, designed to clean up carbon pollution at new power plants - Strip states of their ability to manage their ocean space the way they see fit by blocking the National Ocean Policy During debate over the bill yesterday and today, members rejected a number of opportunities to make the bill less egregious. Instead, they attached additional provisions to further roll back pollution reductions, land protection, and job creation. Amendments included: - Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA): Strike all anti-environment policy riders and funding limitations (failed 19-28) - Moran: Increase oil and gas inspection fees and increase funding for national wildlife refuges (failed 20-27) - Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA): Strike the provision that cuts off funding for the National Ocean Policy (failed 20-27) - Rep. Steven Austria (R-OH): Block EPA from setting new carbon pollution reduction standards for motor vehicles built after 2016, which would double fuel economy, slash pollution, and reduce gasoline purchases by $8,000 over the life of a 2025 vehicle (passed 26-18) - Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): Prohibition on funds to establish industrial carbon pollution standards for stationary sources, including existing power plants and oil refineries (passed 27-18) Taken together, slashing vital programs and blocking implementation of others would allow more air pollution, land desecration, and ocean contamination. These provisions would harm children, seniors, wild places, and clean water. But they would benefit Big Oil and coal by reducing enforcement and blocking new pollution reductions.
November 3 at 6:24pm
- I had the pleasure of meeting Wyatt Cabrera-Gardner of Cheyenne who recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Congratulations Wyatt!
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