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Message from Anita Estell: For All of You

Message from Anita Estell

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 [...]

What If Women Ran the World?

Tiffany Dufu and Gloria Steinem on Bloomberg TV

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 [...]

Top Bills of 2010

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 [...]

Have you Heard More Mentions of Cap-and-Trade Since the BP Oil Spill? What Exactly Is It?

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 [...]

The Big Oil Bailout Prevention Liability Act

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 [...]

This Week’s Legislative Calendar

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 [...]

Anita Estell on the BP Gulf Oil Spill

I find the oil spill in the Gulf to be absolutely mind-blowing. What type of people would drill for oil in the ocean and not have a contingency plan that works, just in case . . . . there’s a leak? Every mother I know carries an extra diaper just in case. . . . there’s a leak.  When I walk [...]

National Science Foundation Highlights Global Impact of First-Ever, All Female, African-American RoboCup Team

This week the National Science Foundation published a story about the first-ever, all female, African-American RoboCup team. The team, comprised of students from Spelman College, has traveled over the world with their robots competing in Asia, Europe and North America with four legged robotic dogs and two-legged humanoid robots. In the 2009 Robocup Japan Open [...]

Is a Stimulus Really on the Horizon? How does it affect Energy?

The official government testimony from an alternate perspective.

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