United States Congress – District 3

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry will lead a congressional delegation to Sudan’s Darfur region, and will hold talks with senior members of the Sudanese government. [John Kerry, U.S. Senator]: “It’s a pleasure for me to be in Sudan and I am looking forward to some very in-depth discussions. There are obviously some very important issues for us to begin to talk about. Now it’s my opportunity, representing the Congress of the United States Senate to be here to engage on humanitarian issues and obviously issues pertaining to the conflict that has so seriously pulled at the country over these last years. We are all very hopeful that we can make progress on these issues, I think everybody will benefit from that.” Washington has had tense relations with the Islamist government of Bashir, who came to power in Africa’s largest country in a 1989 coup. The United States imposed economic sanctions on Sudan in 1997 and labeled it a state sponsor of terrorism. Ties were strained further by the conflict in Darfur, which both Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush have called genocide, a description Sudan’s government rejects

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Based on a true story
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So this is what happened. I called my local congress man Ciro Rodriguez and asked to speak to the legislative aid on healthcare. They ask “What’s your name and who are you with?” I said I’m just calling from the rep’s district about an issue on healthcare. They were like, please hold. And then for the next twenty minutes I was on hold. Eventually they pick up the phone and after hearing I was still there they hang up. I immediately call back and ask to speak to the legislative aid again. The new person is like, oh Bryan? he’s probably busy, and she’s like I can listen to what you have to say. Of course the conversation is a pre-taped recording of uh-hu’s and whatever that big word you just used. How can anyone expect their stuff to be passed on when it’s being translated by free interns? I asked them if sending in a fruit basket might help. They said that might help. I faxed my stuff in to. I caleld back later to see if they got it, but they couldn’t locate it but told me it was probably because so much had been coming through. Is there any hope that our representatives will actually listen to the people from their own district or just the heads of insurance and drug lobbies?

Solving the healthcare debate is simple from both sides. Let’s enact reforms that create citizen owned health care and not politician owned heatlh care. Give everyone flexible spending cards and a base insurance high deductible private insurance plan. Next enact mandatory id cards that would allow holding private encryption keys for all citizens, so we can work with private vendors to have portable medical records. This way we separate health care from health insurance. We can provide feedback to doctors on our treatment and no more filling out the same form over and over again. Have the insurance companies and doctors and citizen groups work together to establish a base line price. Not a base line set by Medicare that robs doctors and patients. The less money your doctor makes, the less he cares about your treatment and the more he cares about pushing a bunch of procedures on you to get a good profit margin.

Next contact your state representative and request a constitutional convention of state representatives. Ask them to propose and pass a US constitutional amendment for term limits for Congress and the Senate. No more than 5 consecutive terms for Congress and no more than 2 consecutive terms for Senate.

Read more about my healthcare plan here
http://blog.joezen.com/2009/07/21/my-thoughts-on-healthcare-reform.aspx

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Delivering Stop-loss orders to Senator John Kerry’s office.

Congress cannot go home until ALL the troops come home!!!

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Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow on the new Congress, on the even of the State of the Union, in an interview with AMERICAblog’s John Aravosis, January 23, 2007.

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On September 18, 1986, just 7 months after she was swept to power by a popular revolt against dictator Ferdinand Marcos, president Corazon C. Aquino addressed the joint session of the United States Congress during her first visit to the country since she came home to bury slain opposition leader and husband Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino, Jr. in August 1983.

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Bailing out troubled financial institutions is becoming an established pattern, The amount of the bail out goes up but many of the same players are still in the middle of the crisis. George Bush and John (Keating 5) McCain along with the Republican political strategy – neoliberalism.

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SANTA FE, NM- July 6, 2009 – Peace & Liberty activist and Iraq war veteran, Adam Kokesh, announces bid for congressional seat in New Mexico’s Third Congressional District as announcement brings in over $25,000 in a single day despite servers being overwhelmed and crashing. Signs spring up all over the district urging people to join the “Kokesh r3VOLution.”

Adam Kokesh announced at the event, “Celebrate American r3VOLution” that he would seek a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kokesh referenced Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis” as he announced, “‘These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country . . . Tyranny, like , is not easily conquered.’ So began the great American tradition of winter soldiering. I have decided that for myself, the greatest way to continue that tradition is to run for Congress to represent New Mexico’s Third Congressional District.”

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Louisiana State Senator Bill Cassidy, R – Baton Rouge, announces his run for Congress at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge.

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