April 23rd, 2012 
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Are you celebrating the beautiful country that we call our home? A drive outside city limits for many Americans can provide stunning views and serve as a reminder of our country’s natural beauty. Those lucky enough to live in places in which nature is on full display, need only step out of their front doors. [...]
April 8th, 2012 Administrator 
What do you think of the new JOB Act? Last Friday, President Obama signed into law the bipartisan supported Jumpstart Our Businesses (JOB) Act. The bill makes it easier for new businesses to raise capital funding. A few highlights of the bill can be found below: Allowing Small Businesses to Harness “Crowdfunding”: The Internet [...]
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Is Representative Ryan’s Budget a Path to Prosperity as it is named? Every American of voting age will have to answer that question for him or herself this November when casting a ballot. The 2012 budget that is passed by both chambers of Congress and eventually signed into law by President Obama will effect us [...]
Posted in Budget, Community, Congress, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Energy, Features, Legislature, News No Comments » March 26th, 2012 Administrator 
Have you heard of THOMAS, an online database listing legislative information form the Library of Congress? As you know, we periodically feature a list of the top ten THOMAS bills searched online. This week’s list finds some surprises. The list is compiled from the top ten legislative items searched on THOMAS, compiled on 3/24/2012 from [...]
Posted in Budget, Community, Congress, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Features, Legislature, President Obama, Supreme Court, Women No Comments » January 1st, 2012 Administrator 
The year of 2011 proved to be an extraordinary season for the participants, petitioners and protestors who fanned freedom’s flames in the U.S. and abroad. From the fall of the last Pharaoh in Egypt, Khadafi in Libya, to the prancing Tea Party and the mobilization of its antithesis, the Occupy movement, the role of citizen [...]
Posted in Ask Anita, Budget, Community, Congress, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Energy, Features, The Anita Estell Show, Women No Comments » December 17th, 2011 Administrator 
Would the world be in better shape if more women were in charge? Recently, Gloria Steinem and Tiffany Dufu, President of the White House Project, sat down with Bloomberg News and discussed this idea. Their talk covered women, politics, and sex and they asserted the world would in fact be in a better condition if [...]
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Tags: Gloria Steinem, If Woman Ran the World, Tiffany Dufu, White House Project No Comments » December 23rd, 2010 Administrator What bills did you support this year? Were they passed or did they did on the congressional floor, victims of the increasingly partisan Congress? 2010 saw a flurry of legislative activity and some pretty monumental bills have been passed this year despite the bitter partisanship that marked the 110th Congress. This just goes to show [...]
Posted in Budget, Congress, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Features, Federal Aid, Healthcare, Legislative Calendar, Legislature, News, President Obama Tags: 111th congress, anita estell blog, Deficit, economic recovery, Economy, federal budget cuts, Federal Debt, government funding, House of Representatives, jobless recovery, Policy, Politics, The Peoples Place, US House of Representatives, www.anitaestellblog.com No Comments » June 28th, 2010 Administrator One benefit of the BP oil spill has been an overwhelming refocus on the environment and what can be done on Capitol Hill to help preserve it. With such talk routinely comes the mention of cap-and-trade. The Center for American Progress published a fact sheet, Cap-and-Trade 101, that gives more info. An excerpt from the [...]
Posted in Congress, Energy, Legislature, News, President Obama, Under New Leadership Tags: 111th congress, Anita Estell, anita estell blog, cap-and-trade, Capitol Hill, Center for American Progress, clean energy, Congress, H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Politics, President Obama, S. 1733: Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, The Peoples Place, US Senate, Word of the Week, www.anitaestellblog.com No Comments » June 22nd, 2010 Administrator Do you think BP is doing enough to both clean up the oil spill and to compensate the victims of this environmental disaster? Since the April 20th oil rig explosion, we’ve learned details on how the explosion could have been prevented, the fact that BP had no real plan to handle this mess and that [...]
Posted in Congress, Economy, Energy, Federal Aid, Legislature, News, President Obama Tags: 111th congress, Anita Estell, anita estell blog, Capitol Hill, clean energy, Congress, Economy, Legislature, Policy, Politics, President Obama, senate, The Peoples Place, US Senate, www.anitaestellblog.com No Comments » June 6th, 2010 Administrator MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2010 On Monday, the House is not in session. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2010 On Tuesday, the House will meet at 2:00 p.m. for legislative business with votes postponed until 6:00 p.m., which is a change to the previously announced schedule. Suspensions (5 Bills) 1. H.Res. 989 – Expressing the sense of the [...]
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