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  • Butterfield to Join Dept. of Health & Human Services for Panel

    WASHINGTON, DC — On Monday, March 23rd, Rep. G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) will join Dr. Pamela Roshell, Department of Health and Human Services Director for Region IV, for a roundtable discussion and celebration of the 5th Anniversary of the Patients’ Protections and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Joining in the celebration, which also marks Women’s History…

  • How the Tea Party Shreds our Constitution and Obama’s Executive Powers

    Raleigh—NC   Hours before President Obama’s State of the Union address, Tea Party Republicans took to twitter trashing him, his administration  and his policies as unconstitutional.  Some even used words like Marxist and totalitarian.  Well, they can have their own opinions, but they can’t have their own facts.  What concerns me primarily is the Tea Party’s…

  • Butterfield Applauds Obama Administration Expansion of Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiative to Include Rocky Mount, NC

    WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) today applauded the Obama Administration’s expansion of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities (SC2) Initiative to include Rocky Mount, NC and six additional cities.  President Obama established SC2 in 2011 as an innovative and flexible program designed to strengthen local capacity, coordinate federal investments, and spark growth in…

  • I’m George Fisher and I approved this Teabaggin’ Teabagger Message!

      WILSON N.C.—As most of you know who follow my Blog: www.whotheHellisGeorge.com, I am the Communication Director for the grassroots organization: People for the the Ethical Treatment of Voters.  PETV was founded by three likeminded individuals: Asa Gregory, Barbara Dantonio and myself.  The organization was born out of a local issue regarding the appointment of…

  • Republicans v. Democrats: How Gun Control Is Different.

    Rarely in Washington does an issue come to light that does not have a predetermined political outcome. The fiscal cliff (or non-fiscal cliff as I called it) was decided by both Democrats and Republicans long before December 31st. The raising of the debt ceiling has already been decided by the Beltway movers and shakers. You’ll…

  • Two Bibles-One Oath.

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two — one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln. The inclusion of King’s Bible is particularly…

  • 31 School Shooting Since Columbine and Still We Do Nothing.

    From Fayetteville, NC to Los Angeles, CA.  These are some of the major shooting since Columbine, not a complete list.   MAJOR SCHOOL SHOOTINGS SINCE 1999 Chardon, Ohio, February 27, 2012A seventeen-year old boy fired ten shots at a group of students in the Chardon High School cafeteria as school began Monday, then shot an…

  • McCain’s Backing Away from Susan Rice Comments.

    Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 Arizona Senator John McCain backed away yesterday from comments he has previously made about UN Ambassador Susan Rice.  CNN was told yesterday that the intelligence community was responsible for the changes made to Rice’s talking points. And, during closed door testimony, the congressional investigative committee learned that the Obama administration made…

  • Republicans are Struggling for Oxygen.

    President Obama quickly came to the defense of UN Ambassador Susan Rice over remarks she made regarding the Benghazi incident during Sunday Moring political talk shows September 16, 2012. What’s even more interesting is the twists and turns of the Republicans taking aim in a fever pitched effort to discredit Ambassador Rice. I don’t think…

  • Six out of every seven doctors agree: Our health-care system doesn’t work

    From: Washington Post Posted by Sarah Kliff American doctors tend to be the highest paid in the world, with salaries that can double that of their counterparts outside the United States. That makes it all the more surprising that doctors here tend to have way lower rates of job satisfaction, according to new research from…